News

• 7 December 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Church is concerned for the violence in Freirina Freirina (Agenzia Fides) - From the first hours of Thursday, December 6th incidents of violence in the city of Freirina in the south valley of the diocese Chilean Copiapó were reported. According to the note of the Epis ...
• 7 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Missionary wounded: Taliban in Punjab are suspected Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Birgitta Almeby, the 72 year-old Christian missionary, victim of an assassination attempt on 3December in Lahore (see Fides 4/12/012) is unconscious and is in the "Jinnha" hospital in Lahore. Pas ...
• 7 December 2012
  VATICAN - From 9 to 12 December the Congress on the Church in America: problems and challenges faced by the mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Congress promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (Cal) and the Knights of Columbus in collaboration with the Institute for Guadalupani Studies, from December 9 to 12 t ...
• 7 December 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Right to education denied to 61 million boys and girls who do not attend school Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world 61 million children do not attend school, 31 million live in Africa and 53% are girls. These statistics were published by the Spanish Entreculturas, on the occasion of the Internatio ...
• 7 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the Assyrian Christians in the Syrian opposition: "Stop Salafi groups" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to stop the "Jubhat Al Nosra" Salafist group that is spreading terror in Mesopotamia: is the appeal launched by the new "National Coalition of the revolution and opposition" (CNS) ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The negotiation of Kampala must not compromise national sovereignty": Bishops’ warning Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "An agreement that compromises national sovereignty is unacceptable," warn the members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a message iss ...
• 7 December 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Microcredit for Haitian women in difficulty, but creative and tenacious Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Considered the main victims of exclusion as well as the campesinos and children, the women of Haiti have creativity and thanks to their work they support more than 43% of single-parent ...
• 7 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong urges newly graduates of the Holy Spirit Seminary to be evangelizers Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Put into practice what you have learned doing the mission of evangelization, to respond to the Year of Faith": is the encouragement that Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, addressed ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Thousands of children are working in the diamond mines to survive Koidu (Agenzia Fides) - In Sierra Leone diamonds helped fuel the civil war that plagued the country from 1991 to 2002, now they are promoting economic growth to some extent, but at the same time attract in mines thousand ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Christmas carols in different languages: a tradition of the Church in Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a joy to be singing together waiting for Christmas" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, where this afternoon the small Catholic c ...
• 7 December 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ahiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 7, 2012, appointed Rev. Peter Ebere Okpaleke of the clergy of Awka, Judge of the Inter-Diocesan Tribunal of the Ecclesiastical Province in Onitsha a ...
• 6 December 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's appeal "regarding the grave humanitarian crisis" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A new appeal for Congo was launched by Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the general audience on Wednesday, December 5. These are his words: " Troubling news continues to arrive regarding the ...
• 6 December 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Prayer Vigil in Jasna Gora for the evangelization of the world Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 people attended the vigil of prayer at the Shrine of Jasna Góra, in Poland, for the evangelization of the world (see Fides 30/11/2012), which was held on December 1. Thousands of ...
• 6 December 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Wen Zhou consecrated a new church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which will be "a source of evangelization" Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "May the light of Christ illuminate this temple of God," after the solemn invocation by His Exc. Mgr. Zhu Wei Fang, Bishop of Wen Zhou, all the lights of the new church lit up dedicated to the ...
• 6 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Deaths and missing persons after the typhoon Bopha increase Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of missing persons, over 214 000 displaced and 238 have died in the floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Bopha, which hit the Philippines. Most of the victims were reported in the provi ...