News

• 10 January 2012
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps, "in many Countries Christians are deprived of fundamental rights and sidelined from public life" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Religious freedom is "the first of human rights, for it expresses the most fundamental reality of the person. All too often, for various reasons, this right remains limited or is flouted". ...
• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sexual abuse and child abuse on behalf of intolerant parents and out of control Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia, in the city of Barranquilla, Caribbean Region, in the months between January and November 2011, 611 sexual abuse on minors were registered, 503 on girls and 108 on boys. Accord ...
• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Haitian children are slowly returning to school, but there are still many challenges to face Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated the island, 750 thousand Haitian children are back at school, 80 000 in 193 seismic centers built to date by UNICEF. The United Nati ...
• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The National Congress of youth pastoral, "a tsunami of faith and enthusiasm" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Everything is ready to start on 11 January, the National Congress of the youth pastoral. The organizers have confirmed the presence of more than 400 delegates, in addition to special guests a ...
• 10 January 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padrón Sanchez new President of the episcopal Conference Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sanchez, Archbishop of Cumaná, was elected new President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (VEC) for the period 2012-2015. In the new group Mgr. José Luis Azua ...
• 10 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES -Tentorio’s case: the man arrested is not the killer, but cites a politician and the chief of the police as the alleged masterminds Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Jimmy Ato, the man arrested by the police and accused of killing the missionary father, Fausto Tentorio on October 17 in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao, has denied being the killer but has i ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Cyclone Thane violently devastates the villages of Tamil Nadu Madras (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian state of Tamil Nadu was violently hit by torrential rains and winds of over 150 miles per hour caused by the storm, called Thane, in the last days of 2011 that hit the Indian Ocean and ...
• 9 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Concepcion’s appeal for the fires: "we are faced with an emergency" Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal was launched by the Archbishop of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali, to express solidarity to families who are suffering from the tragedy of the fires occurred in s ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA-Appointment of Bishop of Ngong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 7, 2012 appointed Rev. John Oballe Owaa, Rector and Professor of the National Major Seminary of St. Thomas Aquinas in Nairobi, as Bishop of the dioc ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Resignation of the Bishop of Makeni and appointment of the Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 7, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Makeni (Sierra Leone), presented by His Excellency Mons George Biguzz ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage of the faithful of Shanghai at the beginning of the new year Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - There were about 150 faithful of the diocese of Shanghai who participated in the pilgrimage to welcome the new year 2012. In particular, they prayed for the priest and the six major seminarians ...
• 9 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Alert for minors in the country recruited by drug dealers Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Drug and Force Administration (DEA), U.S. anti-drug federal agency, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said that in Mexico there are many children between 11 and 17 yea ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abolition of the subsidy on petrol, "a decision that affects the poor", say the Bishops, denouncing the "insensitive timing" in the face of attacks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan (southern Nigeria) say they "saddened" for the "unpopular decision" to abolish subsidies on petrol, which has experienced a dramatic and sudden ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 9 million young people in the street for the "Nazarene", between devotion and terrorist threats Manila (Agenzia Fides) - More than nine million faithful Catholics, regardless of the "attack alert" released by the government, took to the streets today, January 9, in Manila, for the solemn procession of the Nazarene, ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Birth and development of the African Church, which celebrates 50 years: the diocese of Makeni Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 1950 a group of four Xaverian missionary pioneers landed in the port of Freetown, at the headquarters of the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone. A few days later, the new ...