News

• 8 July 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of the Diocese of Zhengding released Zhengding (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, July 7, Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, the legitimate non-official Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengding in the Province of He Bei in mainland China, was released. Age 75, Bishop Julius J ...
• 8 July 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Multimedia for following the 89th Assembly of Bishops in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian Bishops' Conference has dedicated part of its website to the unfolding of the LXXXIX Plenary Assembly of Bishops, which is being held in Bogota (July 5-9). As the country is celeb ...
• 8 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Priest threatened to death, Bishop warns: “Central India is in the hands of Hindu extremists” Indore (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Anand Muttungal, a priest of the Diocese of Bhopal and spokesman for the Catholic Church in the state of Madhya Pradesh has received a death threat from Hindu extremists. “The situation i ...
• 8 July 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Two activists killed: new government faces question of extrajudicial executions Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The first real problems for the new president Benigno Aquino, who took office a few days ago, were immediate: the execution of two activists and defenders of human rights has shaken public opin ...
• 8 July 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Child malnutrition rate lowered in refugee camps in Kakuma Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up fee ...
• 8 July 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Jesuits open new free elementary school for aborigines in Redfern Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – A new, tuition-free Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal children is set to open its doors in Sydney in 2011, providing disadvantaged children with a quality, holistic education which responds ...
• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government announces: task force and national conference against terrorism; Christians show support and pray for peace Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – After the last tragic bombing of a Sufi Muslim temple in Lahore (1 July), the government of Pakistan announced the creation of a task force to fight terrorism and the convening of a national ...
• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Dialogue: the key word for new leaders of Indonesian Islam Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Indonesian Islam is being renewed and confirming its aspects of moderation, dialogue, openness, pluralism. This is what seems to emerge as the intentions and the will of the new leaders of the ...
• 7 July 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - July 8: Xaverian Missionaries celebrate 60 years in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – July 8 will mark the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone. Four men - left the port of Liverpool aboard the “Apapa” on June 29, 1950 – and reache ...
• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Diocese of Kao Hsiung relaunches the mission and pastoral ministry Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) – With the closing of the Year for Priests, the sending of 230 "Promoters of Evangelization" and a priestly ordination, the Diocese of Kao Hiung relaunched the pastoral mission of evangelizat ...
• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Human rights and victims of war: protests against UN and European Union Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Sri Lankan society is expressing its disappointment and protesting the attitude of the international community towards the country: the United Nations and the European Union are particularly i ...
• 7 July 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Amazon not only produces raw materials and minerals, but also young missionaries to spread the Gospel Castanhal (Agenzia Fides) – This past weekend (July 2,3,4), a meeting organized by leaders of the Child and Adolescent Missionary Coordination of State of Pará, in the Amazon, was held to motivate and excite the youth ...
• 7 July 2010
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Church in Venezuela given credibility and trust from citizens Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Information Office of the Archdiocese of Caracas issued a statement of solidarity and support for Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, after the insults uttered against him ...
• 7 July 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Greater commitment to fighting diabetes, which could cause 24 million deaths in sub-Sahara African by 2030 Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) – A recent study - “Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa” - led by the University of Yaoundé and published in British medical journal The Lancet, said inadequate national prevention programmes an ...
• 7 July 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Summer camps for children in Indian villages Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Despite progress in the last thirty years, in India more than two million children die each year from preventable infections. Moreover, as regards education, the number of children not at sc ...