News

• 27 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity campaign for poor people suffering from extreme cold in southern Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Unusually low temperatures are registered all over the southern areas of Latin America. In Peru a state of emergency has been declared in 16 of the 25 regions into which the national territory is ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We have reached a time to move and prepare for change” Sudanese Bishops affirm Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “ This is an historic moment. This is a moment of change. Sudan will never be the same again,” the Catholic Bishops of Sudan said in a message made public at the end of an Extraordinary Plen ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Combating terrorism, the situation in Somalia and Sudan, focus of African Union Summit Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “Let us now act in concert and sweep them (terrorists) out of Africa” the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday 25 August at the opening ceremony of the 15th African Union Summit ...
• 26 July 2010
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Preparation begins for next CELAM General Assembly in 2011 Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – The Uruguay Bishops' Conference informed Fides of a recent CELAM Meeting held 20 - 22 July in Bogota. The meeting was the fourth and final general coordination meeting of CELAM, the Council ...
• 26 July 2010
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Arizona immigration law totally unjust, says Mgr. Escobar San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador sincerely hopes for a repeal of the new immigration law in Arizona, otherwise the image of the United States as the most democratic country in the world ...
• 24 July 2010
  The Holy Father's Missionary Prayer Intention for August 2010: “ That the Church may be a “home” for all people, ready to open its doors to any who are suffering from racial or religious discrimination, hunger, or wars forcing them to emigrate to other countries.” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – One of the most pressing problems for men and women today is a sense of solitude. Among the crowds of our cities, interest for the individual person is often lost. Many, even though surro ...
• 24 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - World Council of Churches: “Repeal the Blasphemy Law” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgently necessary to repeal the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan which violates civil and religious freedom, the law is “a major source of victimization and persecution of religious minori ...
• 24 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Nan Chong diocese provides aid for flood victims in the Qu Xian district Nan Chong (Agenzia Fides) – About 125,000 people submerged by water, several churches immersed in 3.5 - 4.5 metres water, 3,000 Catholics affected: this is the dramatic situation in Nan Chong diocese, district of Qu Xi ...
• 24 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians: skills and employment for two million disadvantaged youths New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – BASE, a plan for professional training and employment for more than two million disadvantaged youngsters in rural areas of India, mainly of Dalits and no caste families, has been launched by ...
• 24 July 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Hogar de Cristo for post earthquake reconstruction; August month of solidarity Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The earthquake which shook Chile in February this year, struck mainly in one of the poorest parts of the country. The buildings which suffered most damaged included about twenty centres known a ...
• 23 July 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean safe water for hill people in Jamba thanks to twelve new fountains Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - Also in the region of Byumba, northern Rwanda, difficult access to water renders life difficult for more than 65,000 people. Two years ago the Italian NGO Movimento Lotta Fame nel Mondo (MLFM) st ...
• 23 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy law, an evil of society Muslim lawyer says Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The blasphemy law and Islamic extremism “are obscure evils of Pakistan's society ”, “they disrupt stability, harmony and legality ”: Muhammad Aslam Khaki, a Muslim jurist and lawyer, ...
• 23 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy law: recent cases Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian family forced to negotiate conversion to Islam for peace and tranquillity; an elderly Christian on the grounds of false accusations could spend the rest of his life in prison: th ...
• 23 July 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Introducing young people to the consecrated life and discernment Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – “You, I and Him … to kindle Love”: is the title of a Vocations Exhibition organised by the Hong Kong Vocations Commission and inaugurated on 10 July at Holy Family parish church. Missi ...
• 23 July 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Islamic leaders ban T shirts with diabolical and non Muslim symbols Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – Muslims should not wear football shirts with diabolical or religious symbols of other religions: for example the Manchester United shirts with a famous red devil. Other football shirts de ...