News
3 May 2012
ASIA/NEPAL - No agreement on the Constitution: instability is the spectre
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Constituent Assembly of Nepal, four years after its creation, has not yet reached an agreement on the drafting of the new Charter, as the deadline for the completion, May 27 next approache ...
3 May 2012
ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "Religious freedom at risk, Hindu extremism grows"
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the work on the new Constitution are completed. We appeal to the responsibility and good will of all political forces. We ask, for the future, full respect for religious freedom ...
3 May 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the priest seriously stabbed last week is still in critical condition, violence increases in the area
Culiacan (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Culiacan Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Jonás Guerrero Corona, has again deplored in an interview with journalists, the fatal attack suffered by Mgr. Simon Garcia Casas, p ...
2 May 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Funeral and burial in Brazil for the Italian missionary Fidei Donum found dead
Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Fidei Donum missionary found dead last Sunday, Father Luigi Plebani (see Fides 05/30/2012) will be buried in Brazil, according to his desire.
Yet there is currently not an official re ...
2 May 2012
EUROPE/ITALY - On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the foundation: a film on the expansion of the Missionary Daughters of Mary Help of Christians
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Born in 1872, the International Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) celebrates its 140th anniversary this year. To celebrate the anniversary, the Institute has made a film c ...
2 May 2012
ASIA/CHINA - May 1 marked by a strong Marian devotion, from commitment to evangelism, to the diaconal ordinations and confirmations
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of May Day in the Catholic community in mainland China was marked by numerous initiatives, characterized by a strong Marian devotion for the beginning of the month of Mary ...
2 May 2012
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Gweru and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on April 28, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Gweru in Zimbabwe by Bishop Martin Munyanyi, in accordance with canon. ...
2 May 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - At least ten victims in the clashes in front of the Ministry of Defence in Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten people have died in the clashes in Cairo, in front of the Ministry of Defence, at dawn today. A group of armed men, nicknamed "Baltajiya", attacked a sit-in organized by Salafis demon ...
2 May 2012
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Maternal mortality rate has doubled due to childbirth
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In the years between 1990 and 2008, around the world, the rate of maternal mortality in childbirth has decreased by 34%. One cannot say the same unfortunately for Papua New Guinea, where it ...
2 May 2012
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The National Day of Catholic schools has been established
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - It will be an initiative to help strengthen the identity of Catholic schools in the country: the "National Day of Catholic Schools", recently approved by the Episcopal Conference of Papua N ...
2 May 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Alarm on human rights: scarce funds, no control
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The standard of respect for human rights in Pakistan is largely insufficient, and two elements say it unequivocally: the limited funds and lack of independent organizations to monitor the situati ...
2 May 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - The "constitutional recognition of the Mapuche people," asked by the Bishop of Temuco to stop violence
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - " What is happening in La Araucania is very serious," the central southern area of Chile, where the percentage of the Mapuche population is very high: the complaint comes from the Bishop of Temuc ...
2 May 2012
AFRICA/MALI - Questions about the "counter coup" in Bamako
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, one does not hear gunfire, people are going to work," says to Fides Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, from Bamako, where on April 30 a mi ...
2 May 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - Aung San Suu Kyi in Parliament: for the Bishops it is "a good sign for the future"
Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Myanmar expressed satisfaction and hope for "the new step ahead" taken today by the country: with the oath of office today, the historic pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi i ...
2 May 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - The drama of violence and child labor, within and outside the family
Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - 80% of children in the state of Jalisco undergo all types of family violence, from screams to verbal abuse, from insults to cruel physical violence. 11% of children working on the streets ar ...
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