News

• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: "A Jubilee Year, freedom and reconciliation, for Myanmar" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - What has just begun is "a jubilee year for Myanmar," in fact "after 50 years of suffocating darkness, today a bright light shines in the beautiful country of Burma": is what is said in a message ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In California, one child out of 5 lives below the poverty line, the phenomenon is on the rise Sacramento (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the State of California will have to face serious financial difficulties if they do not just focus on the growing phenomenon of poverty among children. This is what emerges ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - For the Jesuits in the Mapuche Mission "we must resolve long-standing problems for lasting peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "From Tirúa, the Jesuits and their collaborators who walk in solidarity with the Mapuche community, want to again express the total rejection of violence and reaffirm their commitment to dialogu ...
• 9 January 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The priest of Rwandan origins expelled in August returns to Zambia Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Viateur Banyangandora, the priest of Rwandan origins expelled by the Zambian authorities in early August (see Fides 07/08/2012), returned to the country on January 7. Fr. Banyangandora was we ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - The director of Caritas: revolt in the camp of Zaatari, devastated by the snowstorm; to escape the refugees chose to return to Syria Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The storms of snow, wind and freezing rain that struck the Hashemite Kingdom have had devastating effects on the refugee camp of Zaatari, in the Jordanian desert, where 50 thousand refugees who fl ...
• 9 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - WFP condemns the looting of its food warehouses Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of tons of food aid have disappeared from the warehouses of the World Food Programme (WFP) in at least three locations in the Central African Republic conquered by the rebel coalition Se ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Clarification on the properties of the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in TIPNIS Beni (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, in a television program broadcast at the end of December 2012, stated that the Vicariate of Beni is the owner of a farm of 5,000 hectares situat ...
• 8 January 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Nassar: "In Damascus, Palestinian refugees forced exodus, just like the Holy Family" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – During the Christmas period "it is not uncommon these days to see Palestinian families wandering the streets of Damascus. Parents carrying their children, followed by older children carrying ...
• 8 January 2013
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Closure of the Jubilee Year dedicated to Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, January 9, the Jubilee Year dedicated to Pauline Jaricot (1799-1862) ends, held on the 150th anniversary of her death and the 50th anniversary of the decree on her heroic virtues. The cel ...
• 8 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Mgr. Chen Shizhong: during forced labor he had received the gift of forgiving his enemies Yibin (Agenzia Fides) - On December 16, 2012, His Exc. Mgr. John Chen Shizhong, Bishop of the Diocese of Yibin (Suifu), in the province of Sichuan (Mainland China) died. The Archbishop was 95 years old. He was born in 19 ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church of Venezuela asks to "respect and follow the Constitution" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At the opening of the 99th Ordinary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV), the President of the CEV, the Archbishop of Cumaná, His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, ask ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Literacy plan to eradicate poverty Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The National Plan for Literacy "Quisqueya Aprende Contigo" has just begun, launched in the Dominican Republic by the local government as one of the strategies to eradicate poverty. The g ...
• 8 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians: No, to death penalty and chemical castration for rapists; Yes, to sex education in schools Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "No" to death penalty and to chemical castration for rapists: is what the Indian Catholic lay groups say in the debate on the new law to prevent and punish the crime of rape, being examined by th ...
• 8 January 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the "Sowers of Stars" march in the streets of the Peruvian capital Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Several hundred children of AMI (Childhood and Missionary Childhood) gathered in the center of Lima for a day of formation in order to become "Sowers of stars." On Sunday, January 6, they therefo ...
• 8 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A journalist of a community radio station in Bambari has been killed Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A journalist of the community radio ''Bé-Oko'' in Bambari (in the center of the Central African Republic), Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, was killed by the rebels of the Seleka coalition during the o ...