News

• 22 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Victims of the "blasphemy law": mutual support and appeal for the abolition Faisalabd (Agenzia Fides) - Individuals and families affected by false accusations of blasphemy in Faisalabad met to share experiences, exchange support, encouragement and hope, to ask the government to review the unjust ...
• 22 December 2011
  VATICAN - The Pope at the general audience: "Let us ensure that, also in our modern societies, this exchange of good wishes does not lose itsprofound religioussignificance, and the feast does not become overshadowed by external factors" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The greeting on everyone’s lips during this period is 'Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas Holidays!'. Let us ensure that, also in our modern societies, this exchange of good wishes does no ...
• 22 December 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "For Christmas we ask for the gift of reconciliation," said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Tomorrow I will visit Misratha to meet the local community of Filipino Catholics" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, in Libya, who testifies ...
• 22 December 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Threats of violence against Christians in Orissa: the Bishop informs the authorities, supervised celebrations at Christmas Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas will be celebrated "with prudence and vigilance", and the Bishop advises the faithful to "call the police for any celebration": this is how, local sources of Fides report, Christma ...
• 22 December 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - "Christ gives hope: with faith one is reborn from the ashes", says the Archbishop to the faithful in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "Christmas reminds us the greatest gift that God gave to humanity and the world: Jesus Christ. Jesus removes our sorrow to restore a stream of life with his love ": this is what is said in t ...
• 22 December 2011
  AMERICA/HONDURAS- The missionary work of a Bishop of Panama in Honduras has been awarded by the Government Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Honduras has officially paid tribute to the auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (in the north of Honduras), His Exc. Mgr. Romolo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F., for his concrete ...
• 22 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR-Immunization campaign against measles for 1.7 million children Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The increase of measles and polio cases triggered a vaccination health campaign aimed at tens of thousands of children infected in the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2011 ...
• 22 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Clash on the Presidency: "The risk is that the Country inflames" the missionaries fear Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What will happen now? The risk is the impediment, using the hard way, of tomorrow’s rally at the Stadium of the Martyrs, the risk is other deaths, which will be added to the dozens killed in ...
• 22 December 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Diocese of Ibarra celebrates 150 years of its foundation: Christmas opens the Jubilee Year Ibarra (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ibarra, Ecuador, celebrates its 150 years. The Bishop of Ibarra, His Exc. Mgr. Valter Maggi has called for this reason a Jubilee Year, which will be opened with a Eucharistic celeb ...
• 22 December 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Tons of rice from Taiwan to cope with the severe famine that continues to plague Kenya Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Taipei office of the American charity organization World Vision, Taiwan donated 4,300 tons of rice to the people of Kenya and thereby contribute to the fight against the famine t ...
• 21 December 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Knock on doors, insist on your rights": 54th Campaign of the Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Nicaragua as this year’s symbol country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 54th time, in the days leading up to January 6, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Chidhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ca ...
• 21 December 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Chamber has approved an amendment that allows the public celebration of religious events without prior permission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has just approved, with the votes of the National Action Party, President Felipe Calderon and the PRI's (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) proposal: we a ...
• 21 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The tragedy of displaced people in the village of Doro continues Doro (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20 thousand people have escaped from the bombs and violence in the northern Sudanese state of the Blue Nile to go to the refugee camp in the village of Doro, southern Sudan, in search of ...
• 21 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio hopes for a peaceful Christmas, but on the new State the shadow of insurgency is a burden Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope to spend Christmas in serenity and peace, but there is some fear throughout the population for the possibility of attacks by LRA rebels," said to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Edaward Hiiboro Kussal ...
• 21 December 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for safe deliveries with the highest mortality rate across the country Garissa (Agenzia Fides) - The Garissa Maternal Shelter in the northeast Province of Kenya is the only existing maternal and child care health centre in an area that records the highest mortality rates across the country. ...