News

• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Many Salesians still missing, over 200 students buried under the fallen building in Port-au-Prince Enam Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Knowledge about the current situation of the Salesians in Haiti is still limited and incomplete some two days after the earthquake which devastated the capital. It is still difficult to ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti: Daughters of Mary Help of Christians at work on the site Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - We have still have fresh in our minds the dramatic images that TV and newspapers around the world are portraying as a witness to the catastrophe caused by the earthquake that struck the c ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - First humanitarian aid interventions open doors, although there is fear of epidemics Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The volunteers of the Movement for the Struggle Against World Hunger (in Italian, MLFM) are working with the local community of Les Cayes to gather essential items, water and gasoline. ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros: “The country has opened the doors of all its hospitals and reinforced medical personnel,” fundraising telethon planned Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Ramon Benito de La Rosa y Carpio of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, has been contacted by Agenzia Fides, for updates on the situation and aid to the ...
• 15 January 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Contradictions from government: use of “Allah” only permitted for Christians of Malaysian Borneo Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Malaysian government, led by the UMNO (United Malays National Organization) has today granted the faithful present in Malaysian Borneo (specifically in the two states of Sabah and Saraw ...
• 15 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Jesuits: houses, centers, and personnel of the Society of Jesus spared Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The General Curia of the Jesuits has sent Fides the letter from Fr. François Kawas, delegate of the French Province of Canada (of which Haiti is a part), describing the situation after ...
• 14 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hospital run by Camillians is only one functioning. “We are in need of practically everything,” Fr. Efisio Locci tells Fides Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There are three Italian Camillians and two Haitian fathers currently working on the island that was devastated by the earthquake. In this time of great need, all communications with Haiti ...
• 14 January 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - 10th church attacked by vandals, random acts of violence continue occurring Johor (Agenzia Fides) – Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church in Johor, a city in southern Malaysia (in the State of Malacca), was attacked by vandals last night. Johor is the city hosting the meeting of the Bishops' Confere ...
• 14 January 2010
  VATICAN - Holy Father makes appeal for Haiti, “that these our brothers and sisters who are experiencing a moment of need and suffering may not lack our concrete solidarity”; support of the Church in Italy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the close of the General Audience on Wednesday, January 13, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched the following appeal for Haiti: “I now wish to make an appeal for the dramatic situa ...
• 14 January 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German Bishops inaugurate new Office for Missionary Pastoral Care at Major Seminary in Erfurt Erfurt (Agenzia Fides) - Since January 1, 2010, the new Office for Missionary Pastoral Care (Arbeitsstelle für Katholische Missionarische Pastoral, KAMP) has started its work in the local Major Seminary in Erfurt, in th ...
• 14 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Church organizations, NGOs, and associations bringing aid to Haiti Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Church has always been particularly close to the Haitian people, through Catholic organizations and groups that have supported this country that is among the poorest in the world and they hav ...
• 14 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Church in Americas reaching out to Haiti; USA's PMS launch “Haitian Solidarity Fund” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Various Bishops' Conferences of Latin America took immediate action as soon as they heard the news of the earthquake in Haiti. The President of the Bishops' Conference of the Dominican ...
• 14 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Earthquake affects Salesians Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the communication difficulty with Haiti, news has reached Fides that among the victims of the earthquake that struck the Caribbean Island, there is also a Salesian Brother, Hube ...
• 14 January 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - China responds to Pope's appeal: Jinde Charities organizing Chinese Catholics to help people of Haiti Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Intense prayer, Masses for the repose of the souls of victims, profound spiritual solidarity and concrete aid, a fundraising collection for the primary needs of the people struck by the ...
• 14 January 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “There are somewhere between 3 and 4 million people at risk,” Bishop of Djibouti tells Fides after WFP suspends aid distribution to southern Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very concerned about the humanitarian situation in south-central Somalia, where 3 to 4 million people depend on international aid for their survival," Fides was told by Bishop Giorgio Be ...