News

• 28 October 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Health emergency for refugees of volcano eruption Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian health authorities are warning of increased health risks for thousands of people displaced by the volcano eruption in central Java. At least 28 people are now confirmed dead and 90 ho ...
• 27 October 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Caritas makes appeal to faithful to show solidarity to disaster victims Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – "We are working tirelessly on three fronts: the floods in Papua, the eruption of the volcano Merapi in Java, and a new tsunami in Sumatra. The emergencies have come one after the next, without ...
• 27 October 2010
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Water and education: Jesuits “braving the desert” Kaya (Agenzia Fides) – Initiate growth and social and economic autonomy of the province around Kaya, situated between desert and savannah: this is the goal of a large project of human, cultural, health, socio-economic, ...
• 27 October 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies National Director hopes Mission Congress will “call all baptized Catholics to be missionaries” Albuquerque (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, October 28, 2010, marks the opening day for the Mission Congress 2010 entitled “God’s Mission, Many Faces: A Portrait of U.S. Catholics in Mission,” which will meet October ...
• 27 October 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Indigenous priests: work for a pluralist society that excludes no one Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian Bishops' Conference has sent Fides the letter issued by the ethnic section of the Conference. This letter is distributed as a conclusion of the National Encounter of Priests, Reli ...
• 26 October 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and arrested on allegations of “forced conversions” New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Christians involved in social work, schools, or in preaching the Gospel are the main targets of Hindu (as well as Buddhist) extremist groups who accuse them of "fraudulent and forced conver ...
• 26 October 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - WHO and Caritas: cholera alert, 99 cases among flood refugees Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Cholera has broken out among flood refugees: the World Health Organization today confirmed 99 cases of cholera among displaced populations in the country after the floods. The cases were reg ...
• 26 October 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Is another war brewing in North Kivu? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Is the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the verge of another war? This is what the missionaries of the “Network for Peace in Congo” are wondering. They tell Fides of some indicatio ...
• 26 October 2010
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Church asks to intervene in social security emergency Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Mexico has sent Fides the letter from the Archbishop of Oaxaca, Archbishop Jose Luis Chavez Botello, launching an appeal to participate effectively in responding to t ...
• 26 October 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Over 1,500 people at World Mission Sunday celebrations Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – With slogans and posters, they hit the streets to express their celebration of World Mission Sunday. "The children of the world are always friends," "Long live Christ, who lives" were, among ...
• 26 October 2010
  AFRICA/BENIN - Caritas Benin makes appeal via Fides: “We are in urgent need of food and medicine.” Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in urgent need of food and medicine to help the population affected by the floods," Sister Léonie, Secretary General of Caritas Benin, has told Fides. "Caritas has organized the parish ...
• 26 October 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Beijing Cathedral returns to its original splendor of 1887 Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Beijing's Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Savior (often called Bei Tang or the church of Xi shi ku), returns to its former glory of 1887, and also back to being the center of the life of the ...
• 25 October 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Rise in attacks and violence against churches, Christians concerned Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The violence and attacks, against Christian churches of all denominations, has grown in recent years and now in the past several days, especially in Jakarta and in the western part of Java isla ...
• 25 October 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - “Ethnic drift a possibility; we need to vote as soon as possible” Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – "They are trying to transform the party-political confrontation into ethnic clashes, exploiting the alleged poisoning attempt used against some supporters of Alpha Condé," Fides learned from ...
• 25 October 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI closes Synod for Middle East, says to “never resign ourselves to the absence of peace” and to promote “an authentic freedom of religion and conscience” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Conflicts, wars, violence and terrorism have gone on for too long in the Middle East. Peace, which is a gift of God, is also the result of the efforts of men of goodwill, of the national ...