News

• 21 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara people are hungry: corruption on behalf of officials or natural disaster? Tarahumara (Agenzia Fides) - Illegal logging and pollution of the rivers are some of the damage caused by "corruption" and by the authorities’ "immorality", whose effects have caused hunger in the Sierra Tarahumara: th ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of the Rector of the National Seminar "Our Lady of Lanka" in Kandy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 29, 2011 appointed rev. Clarence Elmo Francis Dias, of the archdiocesan clergy of Colombo as Rector of the Nationa ...
• 21 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - In the northern region of Lambayeque there are about 60 000 working children Lambayeque (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 60 000 child laborers in the northern region of Lambayeque, Peru. According to local sources, the number of children committed to working on the streets has increased ...
• 21 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The repression of the march on February 16: the evaluations of a missionary to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The opposition relied a lot on the success of this march to reassert itself at a political and social level. The police then intervened to prevent a successful initiative that would eventually ...
• 21 February 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The plight of child soldiers continues even when the wars are over Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - When it comes to child soldiers it is hardly ever referred to girls and to girls enrolled, although 40% are involved in those wars. They have different roles, those who have just been kidnapped ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Lenten spiritual retreat dedicated to the operators of the pastoral care of marriage and family Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - Helping those engaged in pastoral care of marriage and the family to improve their spiritual pre-marital and marriage work: this is the objective of the Lenten retreat of the "Committee of th ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "Enrica Lexie" case: the two fishermen killed are Christians, the community wants justice Kollam (Agenzia Fides) - "The two fishermen killed in the incident where Italian soldiers are involved were both Christians from Moothakara. The family of one of them lives in our diocese of Quilon. With Bishop, Mgr. St ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA-Still tension between the government and indigenous people, dialogue is postponed for carnival Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous leaders of the ethnic Ngäbe Bugle and representatives of the Panamanian government have suspended negotiations on the new law restricting the mining and the defense of the wa ...
• 20 February 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR-"I thank all people of good will who are close to us," says the Bishop of Moramanga after a visit to the places affected by the cyclone Moramanga (Agenzia Fides) - According to data released by the National Office, there are at least 200,000 people affected by the passage of Cyclone Storm Giovanna on February 13th (see Fides 14/02/2012; 16/02/2012; 17/02 ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/BELIZE - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Belize City-Belmopan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 18, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Christopher Glancy, C.S.V.as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, assigning him the titular ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Still rain, the church flooded: it is emergency in Iñapari on the border with Brazil Iñapari (Agenzia Fides) - The small town of Iñapari has been flooded for several days. This district of Madre de Dios (Peru), on the border with Brazil and Bolivia, has been suffering for days because of heavy rains th ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country affected by rains, floods and an epidemic of dengue La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Landslides alarm and swollen rivers in Bolivia, where 6,585 families have been displaced in the last two months and where there have been 7 deaths so far. The regions most affected are those of O ...
• 20 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The priests and nuns arrested on February 16 have been released, when a march was blocked organized by lay Catholics Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The three priests and two nuns who were arrested on February 16 in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo have been released. This is confirmed to Fides by the local Church from Ki ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nearly 40 children died from last month’s cold temperatures Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Ministry of Health of Afghanistan, last month about 40 children died because of the cold weather in different parts of the country. 24 of them lost their lives in the refugee camp ...
• 20 February 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope and Cardinals: "This is your task in particular: to bear witness to the joy of Christ's love" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your mission in the Church and the world always be 'in Christ' alone, responding to his logic and not that of the world, and may be illumined by faith and animated by charity which comes t ...