News

• 8 October 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The work of Annalena Tonelli is still alive 10 years after her murder Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 10 years have gone by since the killing of Annalena Tonelli, the Italian volunteer who for 33 years had assisted the Somali population affected by tuberculosis. Annalena was killed on the even ...
• 8 October 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Lumen Fidei enlightens us" Reflections by Mgr. Ma Daqin Shanghai - (Agenzia Fides) – With "Lumen Fidei enlightens us", text published by His Exc. Mgr. Thaddeus Ma Daqin, the Bishop proposes an in-depth personal reflection on the Encyclical Letter Lumen Fidei by Supreme Pont ...
• 8 October 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christians march to denounce acts of intimidation of extremist settlers Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A spontaneous march of Christians in Jerusalem was held on Monday, October 7th through the streets of the Holy City to denounce the frequent desecration perpetrated by groups of extremist Jewi ...
• 7 October 2013
  VATICAN - Pope Francis recalled the many missionaries "who proclaim the Gospel despite great obstacles" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary month, the commitment of so many missionaries to proclaim the Gospel and the witness of life of every baptized person, were recalled by Holy Father Francis before the Angelus ...
• 7 October 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate prohibits the unauthorized sale of Church properties Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans has formally prohibited the sale of land and houses belonging to the patrimony of the Church without permission "of the high ecclesiastical authorit ...
• 7 October 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church's appeal, after the religious conflicts: "In the new Myanmar there is no place for hatred" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Religious conflict in Myanmar does not calm down. The phenomenon of Buddhists nationalist groups and radical Buddhist monks that feed anti-Muslim sentiments across the country causes more violenc ...
• 7 October 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Petition of religious leaders for the release of prisoners of conscience Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese religious leaders unite to demand the immediate release of 14 young Catholics and Protestants currently detained because of their political views. The leaders have signed and spread ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Church involved in the literacy campaign in the country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina and his wife Candida Montilla de Medina, were witnesses to the signing of the agreement - commitment of the Dominican Episcopal Confe ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – The trafficking of Haitian children towards the Dominican State increases Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The trafficking of Haitian children continues to increase at an alarming rate on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Local authorities, human rights organizations and civil soc ...
• 7 October 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Eight children have disappeared from Nosy Be Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - There are eight children who have disappeared in recent months from Nosy Be, an island in Madagascar where three people (one French, one Italian and one Malagasy) were tortured and killed b ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The family at the center of missionary October Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "Missionary Uruguay share your faith. Go, build , confess", even Uruguay prepares to celebrate, on 19 and 20 October, World Mission Day. The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - III World Conference on Child Labour Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The III World Conference on Child Labour will be held from 8th to 10th of October, in Brasilia, in the course of which the main challenges to eliminate all forms of child exploitation will be d ...
• 7 October 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the Korean seminarians: "be a man of God, not administrators or bureaucrats" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The last meeting of the pastoral visit in Korea of Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was reserved for seminarians, on Saturday afternoon, Oct ...
• 5 October 2013
  VATICAN – Cardinal Filoni at the Sanctuary of Choltusan: "Even today, the Korean people and the Church in Korea need the example of their own Martyrs to find vigor and strength" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days before the conclusion of the "Month of Martyrs", as proclaimed by the Archdiocese of Seoul in commemoration of all the Korean martyrs who laid down their lives for the Gospel, Cardina ...
• 5 October 2013
  VATICAN - "The proclamation of the salvific message to our Korean people remains a common and primary responsibility": meeting of Cardinal Filoni with the lay faithful Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Every time that the Church in Korea is spoken about in the world, one cannot fail to recall that your beginnings are bound to the extraordinary initiative and decision of a group of lay scholars, ...