News

• 23 October 2012
  AMERICA - School Education: 22 million children do not go to school or drop out of school Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Although there are 117 million school age children in Latin America and the Caribbean, millions of them still do not have a chance to go to school. Over 22 million children and adolescents in fa ...
• 23 October 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A ransom for the three priests kidnapped has arrived; Bishops condemn the crime Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We received a phone call from a person claiming to belonging to the group that kidnapped the three religious, with a ransom note" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, ...
• 23 October 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is strengthened when it is announced" was the theme of the "missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith and Missionary Week, which took place on October 20 at the Metropolita ...
• 23 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Shaw: "The Synod will help the faithful of Asia to renew the message of Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization is a long wave that will reach even the Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan. I am convinced that the peoples of Asia will benefit as much as those of the West ...
• 23 October 2012
  VATICAN - "New Evangelization in Islamic countries": a symposium at the Lateran Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization and the Church in Pakistan", "Communion and Witness in Islamic countries", "Mystical Experience: meeting ground between Christianity and Islam": are some of the topics that ...
• 23 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The population is in favor of international military intervention to free the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the population is in favor of the proposed international military action to regain the north of Mali" says to Fides Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference o ...
• 22 October 2012
  VATICAN - May the intercession of the new Saints sustain the Church in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "happy coincidence" between the Synodal Assembly on the New Evangelization and World Mission Sunday, were highlighted by the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the Mass he presided on Sund ...
• 22 October 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Different lines of investigation are being followed for the three Assumptionist fathers kidnapped" says to Fides the Bishop of Butembo-Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have several lines of investigation to get to find the three religious kidnapped, we must understand which is the right one," says to Fides Agency his Exc. Mgr. Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, B ...
• 22 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Two thousand children involved in fundraising for World Mission Sunday Tui (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand children in the Diocese of Tui-Vigo, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain, walked the city streets with the classic tin containers used for the collection in favour of World M ...
• 22 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Hai Men opens the Year of Faith administering 445 Confirmations Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful were 445 adults from the Diocese of Hai Men, in Jiang Su province, in mainland China, who received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation, on October 14, at t ...
• 22 October 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - "Year of Faith" amid the persecutions of Christians forced to become "animists" Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Some loatian civilian officials of the province of Savannakhet threaten to destroy the homes of Christians in the village of Seekaew if they refuse to perform animist religious rituals. Acco ...
• 22 October 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Hope and dignified life for 600 children and adults with disabilities Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The list of children and adults physically and mentally disabled in the Philippines is heavy. There are 600 young children and adults affected by different disabilities assisted at the center El ...
• 22 October 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - One hundred thousand young people at the pilgrimage of Santa Teresa de Los Andes: "You must be proud of being Christians," exhorts the Archbishop of Santiago Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100,000 people, mostly young people took part on Saturday, October 20 at pilgrimage to the Shrine of Santa Teresa de Los Andes, covering some 27 km from the town of Chacabuco to the " ...
• 22 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus: questions, fears and prayers of the Christians of Syria after the massacre of Bab Touma Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The mass murderer attack carried out on Sunday, October 21 in the area of Bab Touma, on the eve of a peace mission that will bring Cardinals and delegated Bishops of the Synod of Bishops in Syr ...
• 22 October 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Allegations to Portugal for the assault against the barracks, so "the isolation of the Country accentuates" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is currently calm, the security forces, however, have strengthened border controls and along the roads, and searched a number of houses in search of those responsible for the attac ...