News

• 19 July 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Ramadan is an opportunity for dialogue and friendship": message from the interfaith movement "Silsilah" Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "Ramadan is an opportunity for everyone to reflect, to find spiritual meaning of life. For the Muslim it is an obligation, for others it is a challenge. The Movement 'Silsilah' has alway ...
• 19 July 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Tens of thousands of people in Somaliland have no home or food or health care Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - Due to severe drought that has hit most of the Republic of Somaliland for 4 years, about 120 000 people in coastal regions, central and western are in urgent need of food. The areas most in nee ...
• 19 July 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Revival of Jihad: Islamic extremist groups join to regain strength Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – After Ten years since the terrorist attack in Bali in 2002, the Indonesian Islamic extremist groups, weakened and divided, intend to join together to regain strength. This is what the latest r ...
• 18 July 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on a pastoral visit in the Central African Republic, where he will ordain 4 Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, arrived this afternoon in the Central African Republic, for a pastoral visit of a week. The most sol ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Apostolate of the Sea: the ecumenical and interfaith dimension gets more and more important Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Father Valan Arasu Arockiaswarmy, Divine Word Missionary (SVD) of Indian origin, is the chaplain of the seamen in the diocese of Hong Kong. Considering that every year more than 6 thousand s ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Hundreds of deaths and over 400 000 people homeless due to heavy floods in the country Pazarbhanga (Agenzia Fides) - Since last June the heavy rainfalls in India have caused 109 deaths and at least 400,000homeless in the northeastern State of Assam. According to experts, the tragedy was compounded by cor ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/SIRIA - The Maronite Archbishop: "In Damascus people flee, pray and hope, and turn their gaze to the martyrs" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Bombs, shootings, violence, screaming, deaths rage in the city of Damascus in these hours. People "suffer, hope, escape, pray and, in these tragic hours, turn their gaze to the Blessed Martyrs ...
• 18 July 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Chronic malnutrition is a silent crisis: one of the most severe problems in the country Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is one of the six countries where there is the highest rate of undernourishment in the world. Half of all children in the country under five years of age suffer from chronic maln ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - George Sabra, Christian spokesman of the opposition: "It will be a new democratic Syria, guarantees for everyone" Milan (Agenzia Fides) – We are "at the beginning of the end for the Syrian regime." "A new page of national history is about to open." And the new Syria will be democratic, potentially lay, reconciled and free from opp ...
• 17 July 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Conclusion of the Congregation of Procurators of the Society of Jesus; we need to think of Africa from a different perspective Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The 70th Congregation of Procurators of the Society of Jesus, which for the first time in its history was held in Africa, Kenya, from July 9 to 15 (see Fides 06/07/2012) decided that it is not n ...
• 17 July 2012
  AMERICA/CANADA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas and appointment of Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on July 16, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas (Canada), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Sylvain Lavoie, acco ...
• 17 July 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - The new regulation for the Diocesan Missionary Centers approved by the CEI Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidency of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) has approved the draft regulation on the Diocesan Missionary Centers which replaces the previous statute, dating back to 1969. Indicating "N ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/CHINA -Children’s summer pastoral: formation and experience of faith as well as fun Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - As every year the Catholic community in mainland China is intensifying the children’s summer pastoral with the organization of summer camps, meetings and catechism with many other initiatives ...
• 17 July 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Third National Missionary Congress: new places to evangelize Palmas (Agenzia Fides) - The Third National Missionary Congress of Brazil ended on Sunday, July 15 with a Mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Palmas, His Exc. Mgr. Pedro Brito Guimaraes, and concelebrated by the Secreta ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - 150 000 children die every year due to preventable diseases Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 150 000 children under five years of age die every year in Indonesia due to preventable diseases and more than 10 000 women die from postpartum complications. The latest research p ...