News

• 17 April 2008
  AMERICA/HAITI - The scarcity and soaring costs of food: an “intolerable and scandalous situation that threatens to drown our country with new dramas” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti, which is the poorest country in Latin America, has experienced growing tensions in recent days, due to the situation of scarcity and high cost of food products. Thousands of people ...
• 17 April 2008
  AFRICA - Food emergency and hunger map Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 36 countries have been heavily hit by the increase in the cost of food supplies. Of these 36, 21 are in Africa, 9 in Asia, 4 in Latin America, and 2 in Europe. A study performed by the FAO, the Foo ...
• 17 April 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - The various events being held for the 400th anniversary of the evangelization of the Diocese of Shang Hai focus on the evangelization of the family. Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) - In honor of the 400th anniversary of the evangelization of the Diocese of Shang Hai, the main theme has focused on a reflection on its history, on the most important figures in its past, in or ...
• 17 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 18,815 Jesuits worldwide; largest representation and youngest members in south Asia, with the most novices Roma (Agenzia Fides) - According to statistics made available to Agenzia Fides from the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, dated January 1, 2008, the total number of Jesuits in the world is 18,815. They are subdivide ...
• 17 April 2008
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Food crisis on the horizon in North Korea Pyongyang (Agenzia Fides) - North Korea is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis: in the country that is already suffering chronic problems of hunger, poverty, underdevelopment, and an especially small harvest in 2008, d ...
• 17 April 2008
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Experience of youth and vocation pastoral in the diocese of Kuchin Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Young people who love the Lord Jesus and do not hesitate to answer his call to follow Him in the priestly or religious life or as active lay Catholics: over 400 young people from different paris ...
• 16 April 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Humanitarian organizations ask that April 16 be declared World Day Against Child Slavery: “a holocaust of global proportions, that is on the rise” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Cultural Movement and other Christian institutions have joined in launching a proposal requesting that April 16 be declared World Day Against Child Slavery. Numerous acts are schedu ...
• 16 April 2008
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church in Mexico reaffirms its “yes” to life, “that cannot and should not be trampled by laws that threaten or destroy it” Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - Amidst the Archdiocese of Acapulco’s jubilee celebrations for its 50th anniversary as a diocese, “Buen Pastor” (Good Shepherd) Seminary organized a Bioethics Congress last week, entitled: ...
• 16 April 2008
  AMERICA/CHILE - Document from the Archbishop of Santiago on “The Pastoral Option of Aparecida” distributed in parishes, in response to the challenges and guidelines presented in the 5th General Conference Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - 70,000 copies of the special issue of the magazine, “Encuentro” with an enclosed copy of the document “The Pastoral Option of Aparecida” by Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz, ...
• 16 April 2008
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Make an effort in maintaining a clean and honest vote”: Ivory Coast’s Bishops speak out following the announcement of upcoming presidential elections Abijan (Agenzia Fides) - “Now that the elections dates have been made public, we ask that the people of Ivory Coast begin working peacefully in preparation for the elections, that they may be clean and honest.” This ...
• 16 April 2008
  ASIA/NEPAL - Former Maoist rebels prepare to govern the country Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - From rebels to rulers: the April 10 general elections in Nepal have rewarded the Maoist movement that has spent years working against the nation’s monarchy. The Maoist now have the absolute ...
• 16 April 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese of Hong Kong celebrates 120th anniversary of the Cathedral: inauguration with a commemorative display Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Commemorate history and encourage Evangelization: this is the reason behind a commemorative display on exhibit for the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Hong ...
• 16 April 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church: “Urgent and long-term measures should be taken to overcome the food crisis” Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines is at the forefront of the battle and offering all its resources in the food crisis, above all linked to the cost of rice that has fallen hard on the country. Cathol ...
• 16 April 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Jalingo appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on April 16, 2008, appointed Father Charles Hammawa, of the clergy of Yola, Rector of the Major Seminary of Jos, as Bishop of Jalingo (Nigeria). Father Charl ...
• 16 April 2008
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Coadjutor Bishop of Ekiti appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on April 16, 2008, appointed Fr. Felix Femi Ajakaye of the clergy of Ekiti, Nigeria, pastor of St. Michael Catholic church in Opopogboro (Ado-Ekiti), as coadju ...