News

• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 2.7 million children aged 6-14 working Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Ahmed Ramadan, aged 13, works 11 hours a day in a bakery in Cairo’s Kherbet Kheirala slum, where he says he works with hazardous machinery in unpleasantly hot surroundings, and is ill-treated ...
• 6 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Muhammadiyah hold congress, amidst politics and religion Yogyacarta (Agenzia Fides) – Over 2,000 executives of “Muhammadiyah,” the second Muslim organization in Indonesia, with about 40 million members, are meeting these days in Yogyacarta for the 46th Congress celebrat ...
• 6 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “We were politically persecuted in our homes,” say refugees from autonomous region of Somaliland in protesting Government declaration Hargesia (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement by the government of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland that there were no refugees in the region - only economic migrants from neighboring countries - has angered ...
• 6 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - PMS of Brazil launch missionary novena on DVD for October Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Each year, to animate the month of the missions, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) prepares various materials, like the missionary campaign, a printed version of the message of the Pope, ...
• 6 July 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Huancayo continues the Continental Mission, 100 “Missionary Disciples” in formation Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – On July 11, the Archdiocese of Huancayo will hold the Third Assembly of the "Missionary Disciples" of the Second Vicariate, to continue the Continental Mission in the parishes of the Mantaro ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The missionaries who work to bring together two great abandoned people: Jesus in the Tabernacle and man in the world" Malaga (Agenzia Fides) – The Eucharistic Missionaries are preparing to celebrate their 90th anniversary of foundation. Sister Antonia Moreno, Superior of the house in Marques Valdecañas in Spain, wrote to Fides, empha ...
• 6 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - No violence reported against Christians, “but the government should stop the Islamic extremists” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – "We have no news of imminent threats or violence against Christians. Bekasi Islamist groups have only launched a warning for now. Parliamentarians, civil society, and radical Muslim organizati ...
• 5 July 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Sulmona: “The characteristics of the brief and trying pontificate of Celestine V are also the characteristics of the missionary activity of the Church in every age.” Sulmona (Agenzia Fides) – St. Peter, although he lived as a hermit, was not “closed in on himself” but was filled with passion to bring the good news of the Gospel to his brothers. And the secret of his pastoral fr ...
• 5 July 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - 50th anniversary of “The Eucharistic Crusade” Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – Half a century ago, a priest from the Diocese of Shanghai launched the first "Eucharistic Camp" according to the style of Eucharistic Movement of Shanghai and obtained an immediate success. To ...
• 5 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Reawakening the missionary spirit: first Missionary Congress for seminarians in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – With the Mass presided by the Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa, the first Missionary Conference for Seminarians began yesterday, July 4, i ...
• 5 July 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Conclusion of the I International Educational Congress for religion, ethics, and morality professors Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The main objective of the International Educational Congress of professors of religion, ethics, and morality in Bolivia that took place July 1 to 3 in the city of Cochabamba, was to strengt ...
• 5 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Champions for South Africa - Join the game”: education for a world view and integration during World Cup Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the World Cup, the Salesian South African Planning and Development Office and Salesian NGOs “Jugend Eine Welt” (Austria), “Jovenes y Desarrollo” (Spain), “Sal ...
• 5 July 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Fighting malaria using sea life: a new undertaking for American researchers Rome (Agenzia Fides) – New drugs to fight malaria may well lie at the bottom of the ocean, according to researchers studying over 2,500 samples from marine organisms collected at depths of over 900 meters. They have al ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - 300 feared dead following tanker explosion in Congolese village Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) – "It is a tragedy whose precise dimensions are not yet known. According to the local radio, the number of dead could be 300," Fides was told by Sister Teresina Caffi, a Xaverian missionary from ...
• 3 July 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Priest describes tank explosion as “an apocalyptic scene” Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) – "It's an apocalyptic scene; burned bodies are strewn about the main street of Sange. The dead are definitely more than 200 and dozens of houses have been destroyed," Fides has been told by Fr. ...