News
11 January 2012
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas Somalia: four million Somalis in critical condition, 250,000 at risk of hunger
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - According to FSNAU (Food Security Analysis Unit, an organization sponsored by the European Commission and by USAID), four million people are in conditions of food insecurity in Somalia, of the ...
11 January 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence against children: the CIMI raises its voice and describes the real situation
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The murder of an indigenous child of Maranhão, burnt by wood smugglers (madeireiros) in October 2011, has recently provoked the indignation of many Brazilians manifested in social networks. Al ...
11 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government of Punjab demolishes a Caritas lodging: for the Church it is a "criminal move", we resort to Court
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Many Pakistani Christians, priests, nuns and activists from the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan gathered today in Lahore to protest and assert their rights: ...
11 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - First study on malnutrition: 42% of children in the poorest districts suffer from malnutrition
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "HUNGaMA" (Hunger and malnutrition) is the name of the first study carried out after years concerning the problem of child malnutrition. According to the report just submitted by the country's ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA-Two Christian leaders arrested in Orissa with false accusations
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The police in Orissa have arrested two Christian leaders with accusations that the community defines "false and intimidating". At 4.30 last night, in Baliguda, the police arrested Junus Prad ...
10 January 2012
AMERICA/PERU - The President of Cor Unum, visits Santa Rosa’s birthplace and the poor on the outskirts of Lima
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, is in Peru to visit the places where Santa Rosa de Lima lived. According to the note sent to Fides by the Archdiocese of Lima, s ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty, the NGOs ask for "a new era for human rights"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty on the occasion of the anniversary of the two leaders who paased away, his father Kim Jong-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung. But, ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The challenges of the church in the pastoral, political, economic and social field: Seminar for priests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The challenges that the church of today places in the pastoral, political, economic and social field, emphasizing the social responsibility of Christians towards the weakest, was the theme of ...
10 January 2012
VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps, "in many Countries Christians are deprived of fundamental rights and sidelined from public life"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Religious freedom is "the first of human rights, for it expresses the most fundamental reality of the person. All too often, for various reasons, this right remains limited or is flouted". ...
10 January 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sexual abuse and child abuse on behalf of intolerant parents and out of control
Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia, in the city of Barranquilla, Caribbean Region, in the months between January and November 2011, 611 sexual abuse on minors were registered, 503 on girls and 108 on boys. Accord ...
10 January 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - The Haitian children are slowly returning to school, but there are still many challenges to face
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated the island, 750 thousand Haitian children are back at school, 80 000 in 193 seismic centers built to date by UNICEF. The United Nati ...
10 January 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The National Congress of youth pastoral, "a tsunami of faith and enthusiasm"
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Everything is ready to start on 11 January, the National Congress of the youth pastoral. The organizers have confirmed the presence of more than 400 delegates, in addition to special guests a ...
10 January 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padrón Sanchez new President of the episcopal Conference
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sanchez, Archbishop of Cumaná, was elected new President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (VEC) for the period 2012-2015. In the new group Mgr. José Luis Azua ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES -Tentorio’s case: the man arrested is not the killer, but cites a politician and the chief of the police as the alleged masterminds
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Jimmy Ato, the man arrested by the police and accused of killing the missionary father, Fausto Tentorio on October 17 in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao, has denied being the killer but has i ...
9 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Cyclone Thane violently devastates the villages of Tamil Nadu
Madras (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian state of Tamil Nadu was violently hit by torrential rains and winds of over 150 miles per hour caused by the storm, called Thane, in the last days of 2011 that hit the Indian Ocean and ...
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