News

• 28 December 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - From 180 to 200 patients a day in the clinic of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation in La Plaine La Plaine (Agenzia Fides) - Before the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January, 2010, the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation had two communities: one in the capital, Port au Prince (the house called “Maison M ...
• 28 December 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Jorge Urosa-Savino fears Venezuela is moving towards a dictatorship Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Jorge Urosa-Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, has expressed concern that a dictatorship is being established in Venezuela. According to local press reports, the Archbishop of Caracas has ...
• 23 December 2010
  Christmas Greetings from Fides “The word of God has bestowed upon us the divine life which transfigures the face of the earth, making all things new (cf. Rev 21:5). His word engages us not only as hearers of divine revelation, but also as its herald ...
• 23 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Liberty and justice for Asia Bibi: demonstration in Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Italian society will take to the streets to send a message of solidarity and closeness to Asia Bibi: parliamentarians, the Catholic world, other religious communities and Italian civil society toda ...
• 23 December 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishops in mourning Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 November, 2010, Bishop Paul Jiang Taoran died, aged 84, bishop emeritus who had exercised his episcopal ministry in Shijiazhuang, in the diocese of Zhengding (Hebei Province, mainland ...
• 23 December 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “The Gifts of the Magi”: Christmas letter to the “family” in which Bishop John Tong shares four dreams with his faithful Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “To continue evangelization efforts”, “to promote vocations”, “to take care of faithful foreigners”, and “to assume the role of bridge” are the four dreams of Bishop John Tong, ...
• 23 December 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - New programs for the 52,000 Colombians migrated to Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministers for Foreign Affairs from Colombia and Ecuador have asked the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help in assisting more th ...
• 21 December 2010
  VATICANO - “Faith is not a thing of the past, but an encounter with the God Who lives and acts now”: Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his Address to the Roman Curia on the occasion of exchanging Christmas greetings on 20 December, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled as usual on this occasion, the main events of the ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic community is getting ready for Christmas in the name of charity and promoting vocations Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The faith, evangelization, charity, solidarity, promotion of vocations: on these key issues the mainland Chinese Catholic community is preparing the path for Christmas. Several initiative ...
• 21 December 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We fear LRA massacres at Christmas and during the referendum in January,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambo Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “There are at least four villages in Western Equatoria where people live in real fear of new attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambo, so ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - “Living for God, working for Nepal”: Jesuit schools continue to expand Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty years after opening the first school in Nepal, the Jesuits continue to expand the educational apostolate in the Country. In fact another floor, the fourth, has just been added at St Xavi ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - In a detention centre: children, women, elderly and sick people fleeing from Pakistan Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 85 displaced people from Pakistan have been taken into custody by immigration in Bangkok, according to a statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission received by Fides. The group ...
• 21 December 2010
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Situation still blocked while the European Union adopted sanctions against Gbagbo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “The political situation is blocked and the sanctions decided on by the European Union and the UN seem to have taken effect, at least for now, to strengthen the determination of Gbagbo's camp ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Increased security measures, especially for religious and ethnic communities Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Mosul are increasingly targeted by armed men that, as reported by the press in Iraq, killed at least five people in the month of November. News of kidnappings and murders of Chris ...
• 21 December 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Archbishop Cabrejos asks presidential candidates to support proposals for the good of the country, regardless of ideology Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference (CEP), Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos, asked the presidential candidates to not fall into the “politics of trivial things”, but to support the prop ...