News

• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ruhengeri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 31, 2012 appointed Rev. Vincent Harolimana, until now Rector of the Minor Seminary St. Pius X in the diocese of Nyundo as Bishop of Ruhengeri (Rwanda ...
• 30 January 2012
  "That the Lord may sustain the efforts of health workers assisting the sick and the elderly in the world’s poorest regions" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for February 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I was ill and you cared for me" (Matthew 25:36). These words of the Lord led the believers to have a special sensitivity for those suffering from disease or old age, recognizing in them th ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-A haven for African children accused of witchcraft Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian NGO Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), welcomed over 160 children labeled as "witches". Dozens of children suffer abuses, are abandoned and even killed by their familie ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary professed their vows Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of 135 years of its foundation of the religious congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), the first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong (men, women a ...
• 30 January 2012
  VATICAN - Poverty and social exclusion, the real causes of the persistence of leprosy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, January 29, World Leprosy Day, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled during the Angelus the annual anniversary with these words: "On greeting the 'Italian Association friends o ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Regional elections in northern India: Hindu nationalists provocative poster New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming elections for the renewal of the local Parliament in Uttar Pradesh (state in northern India), which will begin on February 4, the Hindu nationalist "Bharatiya Janata Pa ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Good relations with the government, but more attention to the weakest," write the Bishops Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Zambia are opposed to forced repatriation of Rwandese refugees who live in the Country and condemn cases of abuse against children. This is shown by a articulated pastoral Letter, ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Schools targeted by radical Muslims in Kashmir Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools are being targeted by Islamic extremists in Kashmir, accused of "proselytism". After the expulsion order against two Protestant and one Catholic missionaries (Pastors C.M. Kh ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The cost of food increases, 250 000 people continue to suffer from hunger Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After a pause of several months, clashes and feuds have broken out again in Somalia between clans and between 16 and 19 January, eight people died. In the country as well as the lack of securi ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Between kidnappings and massacres tension between Sudan and Southern Sudan increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There is a growing tension in the border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, while the governments in Khartoum and Juba are throwing accusations of supporting the rebels operating in their ter ...
• 27 January 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Manifesto for the defense of Haitian migrants human rights in Brazil Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The national and international Organizations in support of migration, together with migration research groups from different Brazilian universities follow with concern the reality faced by Haiti ...
• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The parish of Ma Bu Gao Sha of the diocese of Wen Zhou in the footsteps of St. Paul’s missionary spirit Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the footsteps of St. Paul and his missionary spirit, so that we are the salt of the earth and light of the world, becoming authentic Christians": is the wish of His Exc. Mgr. Zhu Wei Fang, ...
• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Faith is an anchor for the young, in times of crisis and unemployment Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian faith is a point of reference for young Koreans, and is for them a firm anchorage in difficult times of economic crisis, unemployment, social unrest. This is what emerges from a rece ...
• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - On Sunday, 29 January prayers will be held in 2500 cities around the world for peace in Holy Land Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The residents of about 2500 cities around the world will pray for peace in the Land of Jesus on Sunday, January 29. On the Fourth International Day of intercession for peace in Holy Land, a prayer ...
• 27 January 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa: every day between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age die Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the famine caused by the severe drought that has hit the area in the past 50 years, between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age continue to die every day in the Horn of Afri ...