News

• 26 October 2012
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The Government is doing everything possible to maintain peaceful coexistence between religions Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The government is doing everything possible to maintain peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims," says to Fides Agency a source in the local Church in Dar es Salaam after the ...
• 26 October 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Mission and dialogue in the Year of Faith Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The mission towards the poor, the sick or towards ethnic groups who do not know Christ, and dialogue with all sections of society: in the Year of Faith, this is the commitment of the Fr ...
• 26 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - "All Christians were forced to flee from the north of Mali, even Muslims victims of extremism," says a missionary Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In the north of Mali, all Christians were forced to flee" the complaint in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Fr. Laurent Balas, a missionary of the White Fathers, who spent six years ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The East Asian youth operators discuss "Youth and the New Evangelization" Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Youth and the New Evangelization" was the theme of the annual Meeting of East Asian Youth operators of the Youth Pastoral in East Asia of the FABC (Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences), wh ...
• 25 October 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A Camillian from Burkina Faso dies at the age of 21, on the 45th day of his first religious profession Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At the age of 21, Dimitri Dambre, a young religious Camillian from Burkina Faso, died on the 45th day of his religious profession on October 22. The news was sent to Fides Agency by the Gene ...
• 25 October 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A dispensary and a center for the disabled have been inaugurated, a light of hope for the people of Madagascar Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Two works at the service of the weakest representing hope for a better future for the people of Madagascar. This is the dispensary St. Luigi Orione in Miandrarivo and the House of Charity f ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Pregnant woman and two children massacred by the army in Mindanao Columbium (Agenzia Fides) - A tribal family was massacred by the soldiers of the Philippine Army in the Columbio area (province of Sultan Kundarat), on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. As confirmed by ...
• 25 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "It is not with repression that problems are solved": the call of Bishop Ramazzini Totonicapán (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango, publicly called for the government to meet the needs of the population of Totonicapán through dialogue and n ...
• 25 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - New website guides the faithful Peruvians in the Year of Faith Lima (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate the start of the Year of Faith, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference offers the faithful a website dedicated entirely to the Year of Faith. This new virtual space has a range of informati ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The new Indian Cardinal comes from a Church "that does a lot for Evangelization" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Joy, congratulations, hope, are expressed by the Indian Cardinals for the appointment of His Beatitude Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars (Ind ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus found dead Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The body of the Greek-Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias in Qatana, was found today in the Jaramana neighborhood (north of Damascus) not far from the place ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Cardinal Filoni reaffirms the validity of Pope Benedict XVI’s Letter to the Chinese Catholics and the internal path to the Church in China in fidelity to the Pope, hoping for a stable Commission of the People's Republic and the Holy See Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Letter addressed by the Pope to the Chinese Catholics in 2007 "remains valid" also to favour a restart of dialogue between the Holy See and the Government of Beijing. A dialogue that should be ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - One woman out of 89 and 500 children die every day from diseases related to pregnancy Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, one woman out of 89 dies every day from diseases associated with pregnancy, over 500 babies die due to lack of adequate maternal and neonatal health care (MNH), particularly in the ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Marriage tradition of indigenous comunities and Catholic theology: Pastoral Congress in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Marriage tradition and the Catholic pastoral" is the theme of the 7th Pastoral Congress of indigenous peoples of Taiwan to be held from November 7 to 9. The invitation to participate, addressed ...
• 24 October 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A TV for Egyptian Catholics: "a tool to show everyone the wealth of the Catholic gaze" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Its name will be "Salam", which in Arabic means "peace." It will see the light of day within 2013, but the planning phase has already begun. It will be the first Egyptian Catholic television netwo ...