News

• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Pilot project to assist women who have suffered violence Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Following a study carried out in 2011 by researchers at the BICE (Bureau International Catholique de l'enfance), which deals with children’s rights, a project to help women and their relatio ...
• 12 December 2012
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Recognition of Parliament to Caritas, for the protection of social rights and the fight against poverty Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Caritas Portugal, Eugenio Fonseca, received from Parliament the Human Rights Award 2012. "Caritas welcomes this award - he said - as a sign of appreciation for the work of animat ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The realization of the Rosary beads becomes an occasion for catechesis Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – A hand made rosary, to thank the sisters for their reception: is the Christmas initiative of the girls who are guests of the College of the Missionaries of the Good Shepherd in Hong Kong to ...
• 12 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Delays in learning and growth for adolescent workers Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor in Argentina continues to be a very serious problem. Among the disadvantages caused by the phenomenon what emerges is the narrow margin of time available that these children hav ...
• 12 December 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Reserve about how the Prime Minister was deposed, but the parties are in favor of change Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The political parties have taken note of the appointment of the new Prime Minister and the resignation of the previous. The political group that supports the military junta has expressed its con ...
• 12 December 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Catholic Church mediates between firemen and government authorities Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between the representatives of the General Directorate of the Fire Brigade and the authorities of the Government of Panama is still in progress, in order to examine a list of 13 req ...
• 12 December 2012
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on October 1, 2012 appointed Rev. Jovitus Mwijage of the diocesan clergy of Bukoba as National Direc ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Reproductive health Bill: Bishops urge politicians to respect the right to life Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "The truth must be at the basis of the law", the nation needs a law "to affirm and protect the truth about the dignity of the human person, who has been created in the very image of God, the sancti ...
• 12 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Hanna: these are the articles of the draft of the Constitution that endanger religious freedom Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Even yesterday, during the demonstration organized by President Morsi's supporters, the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Beltagui went back to inciting the crowd against Christians, claiming that ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A statue of the Madonna desecrated in a parish in Faisalabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 November, in a Catholic church in Chak Jhumra, diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab, the destruction caused by throwing stones at the statue of the Virgin Mary brought horror, fear, dismay and ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Christian missionary injured moved to Sweden Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An air ambulance moved the Swedish Christian missionary Birgitta Almeby, 72 to Sweden, she was injured in a bomb attack in Lahore on December 3 (see Fides 04/12/2012). This is what Pastor Liaqat ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Vaccination campaign against measles and polio for more than 1 million children Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – To vaccinate one million and 400 thousand children against polio and measles in the country affected by armed conflict is the current goal of UNICEF. So far, over 500 000 have been reached. T ...
• 11 December 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Goma assists victims of sexual violence in the camps for displaced persons Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are dozens of cases of sexual violence against refugee women in camps for displaced people near Goma, capital of North Kivu, province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for months di ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: Huiling announces the opening of a new center Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: thus Fr. Fernando Cagnin, a PIME missionary, urged the participants in the celebration for the 4 years of the establishment of the ...
• 11 December 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - The end of the world on December 21? Then give away your possessions to the Church Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Punta Arenas (Chile), His Exc. Mgr. Bernardo Bastres Florence, S.D.B., faced with the concerns of those who say that next December 21 could be the end of the wo ...