News
26 October 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, "It is a challenge to accommodate an ever-increasing number of deportees from the United States"
Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Mexico it is a great challenge to receive the thousands of Mexicans who are deported from the United States, after the government of this country established as a priority the indiscrimi ...
26 October 2011
AFRICA - Children, especially malnourished, victims most at risk of one of the worst epidemics of cholera
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This year in West and Central Africa more than 85 000 cases of cholera that have killed 2,466 people have been registered. For dimensions and the danger of outbreaks, the region is facing one of th ...
25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Identikit for two of Tentorio’s killers; two other missionaries in the crosshairs
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Task Force is investigating the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, killed on October 17 in Arakan (Mindanao) and the identikit of two killers has been traced, say local sources of Fides. A ...
25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops and 15 thousand tribal people from Mindanao for the last farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - In a climate of prayer and emotion, the communities of Mindanao and the entire Church in the Philippines said farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "He died like Jesus on the cross, the missionary who showed mercy to the tribal people, abandoned by the government", says the Bishop during the funeral
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Father Fausto "did not like ceremonies" and "worked in relative obscurity". "He was a missionary who showed mercy, especially to the little children of God among his parishioners, the Lumad (t ...
25 October 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - Resentment among Gaddafi’s supporters for his burial in an unknown place
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - " Gaddafi’s burial in an unknown location in the desert is creating resentment among his supporters that are still present, especially in Sirte. Resolutions of retaliation circulate, even if o ...
25 October 2011
ASIA/CAMBODIA - The nutrition of the population affected by severe flooding is at risk
Kratie (Agenzia Fides) - The severe floods in Cambodia have put at serious risk the nutrition of the country’s population. In 17 of the 24 provinces, about 300 people have been killed and other 34 000 have been forced ...
25 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day: new beginning of evangelization for the continental Catholic community
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day marks a "new beginning of evangelization" for mainland Catholic community. This is what priests of various continental Catholic communties report to Fides. As reported in Faith ...
25 October 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA -Itnpis: the road will not be done, the Church: "We were witnesses of solidarity and commitment to the cause of the indigenous people"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - After 65 days since the beginning of the indigenous march and confrontation with the government, President Morales has decided not only the definitive suspension of the construction of the second ...
25 October 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Second Social Week reflects on the theme of "Power"
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From October 25 to 27 the second social week organized by the Diocesan Commission for justice and solidarity of Cochabamba in collaboration with the Social Pastoral of the local Caritas wil ...
25 October 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Malnutrition against the health of the poor: 17% of Guatemalans are poor
Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of families in Guatemala survive on a very precarious diet of flour and cereals, they cannot economically afford protein foods like meat and dairy products which are essential for gr ...
25 October 2011
VATICAN - Pope's Message: migrations are an opportunity for evangelization
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The present time, in fact, calls upon the Church to embark on a new evangelization also in the vast and complex phenomenon of human mobility. This call for an intensification of her missio ...
25 October 2011
AFRICA/BURUNDI - The fourth Major Seminary in Burundi is starting
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The celebration of the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, coincided with the blessing of the first buildings of the Major Seminary of Saint Charles Lwanga, in the presence of the Apostolic Nun ...
24 October 2011
VATICAN-Three new Saints on Mission Day, "a model for all believers"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "As we celebrate with the whole Church World Mission Day - an annual event that aims to awaken the enthusiasm for and commitment to mission - we praise the Lord for three new Saints: Bisho ...
24 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The death of Fr.Tentorio will give more courage to the tribal people in the South of the Philippines
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Death of Father Fausto Tentorio during the month dedicated to the tribal people, will give courage to many within the Church and Philippine society, to be more aware of, and identify ...
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