News
13 September 2011
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nine million people risk starvation
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The drought in northern, northwestern and western Afghanistan, is putting other 1.5-2 million people at the risk of starvation, in addition to the seven million around the country who already live ...
13 September 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A course on popular religiosity for new missionaries
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The department of Evangelization of the Commission for the missions of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, with the coordination of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), has organized a co ...
12 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Orders to demolish churches in Orissa have been cancelled
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - It is a victory for the Catholic Church in Orissa: the local government of Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence in 2008, announced the cancellation of the demolition orde ...
12 September 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "The attack on the Israeli embassy is a clear act of breaking with the past", says a missionary from Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a proof of strength, a gesture of breaking with the past. A 'sacred' place was violated, which under Mubarak’s regime would never have been attacked in that way", says Fr.Giovanni to Fid ...
12 September 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Catholic university students launch a new website dedicated to their peers to deepen the meaning of life, values and faith
Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Catholic university students of the diocese of Han Dan, in He Bei province, mainland China, launched a new website for evangelization titled "The Choir of Angels", to offer their peer ...
12 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - Clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas. The Bishop: "Religious leaders peacemaker operators"
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes between Christians and Muslims which occured yesterday, September 11, shocked the town of Ambon, the capital of the Moluccas, the islands in eastern Indonesian archipelago. As local source ...
12 September 2011
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Schools and parishes involved in the preparation for Mission October
Wellington (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission of New Zealand have just concluded their annual meeting, held in Wellington, under the leadership of the National Director, Fr. Paul Shannahan ...
12 September 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Witnesses of the Word, Missionaries of the Gospel": XV Meeting of the Missionary Union of the Sick
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The department of Missions of the Episcopal Commission for prophetic Pastoral, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Mexico and the diocese of San Juan de los ...
12 September 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - An "emergency forum" has been called on behalf of the Governors of northern Nigeria with regards to the violence in Plateau state
Jos (Agenzia Fides) - New violence in Plateau state, in north-central Nigeria, where in the last two weeks, 70 people have been killed in inter-community clashes. The last attack was last weekend, when an armed group (su ...
12 September 2011
VATICAN - Benedict XVI renewed the invitation "to always reject violence as a solution to problems"
Ancona (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Holy Mass celebrated in the Shipyard of the city of Ancona, on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the end of the XXV National Eucharistic Congress, Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled the tenth ...
12 September 2011
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga denounces: the country experiences great moral crisis
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of violence that has steeped the country with blood has been severely condemned by Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, who stressed: "The crisis ...
12 September 2011
EUROPE/ITALY - "Archives and Evangelization", a conference on the importance of the documentation concerning evangelization
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From September 13 to 16, the Conference "Archives and Evangelization," which aims to promote the enhancement of church records kept in the archives on evangelization will be held at "Il Carmelo" In ...
10 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - Muslim students at the Vatican: from the post-September 11 protests to the invite to the Pope
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – To seek support to open the door to dialogue and religious pluralism; to begin forms of collaboration; to invite Pope Benedict XVI in Indonesia to give a speech at an international confer ...
10 September 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - "Even the local communities suffer because of drought, and no one helps them": the testimony of a responsible of Caritas from Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is dramatic", says Suzanna Tkalec to Fides, of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which assists His Exc Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mog ...
10 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - Among the young "Captain Jihad" depopulates: the former comic terrorist hero
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – It is the most popular reading among young Indonesians, Muslims and other religions: on the occasion of the anniversary of September 11, a new comic hero, "Captain Jihad" depopulates in Indo ...
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