News

• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of returnees from Yemen increases Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The continuing unrest and xenophobia present in Yemen have increased the returns of refugees in Somalia. There are about 6000 of those who have returned back, crossing the Red Sea since the beg ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rapes and murders of Christians in Punjab, in silence and injustice Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Javed Masih, Shahbaz Masih's father, a young Christian killed by Muslims in Kasur (in Punjab), has just managed to register a formal complaint (First Information Report) and is now demanding justi ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Girl killed in Faisalabad, a "martyr of the faith" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The local Catholic Church calls her "a martyr of the faith": Mariah Manisha was a Catholic girl from Faisalabd who was killed a week ago by a Muslim man who had kidnapped her and intended to ...
• 2 December 2011
  AMERICA/PERU- The search to find father Alfonso continues, lost in the Peruvian jungle Moyobamba (Agenzia Fides) - From several ecclesiastical institutions and structures prayer requests and help arrive for father Alfonso Asencios Zuloaga, a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (also known as the Vinc ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The Post-Synodal Exhortation urges us to a greater commitment to evangelization in Africa", says Cardinal Pengo Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), has described the Apostolic Exhortation ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Mandate to 179 extraordinary ministers of communion of Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - There are 179 extraordinary ministers of communion at Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin, who received the mandate during the solemn liturgy on November 19, presided by the pastor Don ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Erected the diocese of Gaoua and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 30, 2011 erected the new Diocese of Gaoua in Burkina Faso, with territory taken from the diocese of Diebougou, making it a suffragan of the archdioc ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-Education and evangelization of children and young people Lungi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian community has been present in Sierra Leone for 25 years, and has always been committed to education and evangelization of children and young people in the African country. According t ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Christmas dedicated to the "new evangelization" in the spirit of the II Vatican Council Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is for the Korean Catholic Church an opportunity to reflect and revive the spirit of the "new evangelization": This is what emerges from the pastoral Letters that the Korean Bishops spre ...
• 1 December 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-The Catholic Church may appoint religion teachers in public schools Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the State have reached an agreement in Bolivia as far as education is concerned: The government recognizes the educational structure of the Catholic Church, through t ...
• 1 December 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI: yesterday as today, the blood of the martyrs touches the human heart and makes it fruitful Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Christian news, of the beauty of faith in Christ needs people who with their lives, consistent with their loyalty, testified if necessary to the giving of oneself, ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: " immediately cease-fire, then a plan of national reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "To the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Myanmar, we ask to invite the government to immediately order a ceasefire in the conflict with the Kachin Independent Army; then to r ...
• 1 December 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest denounces the tragedy of 68 families of Guatemalan refugees abandoned by everyone Tabasco (Agenzia Fides) - The 68 families of Guatemalan refugees who since August 23 are in the municipality of Tenosique, Tabasco (Mexico), after being evicted from their village in Guatemala by the army and police, hav ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas operations in Somalia were not affected by the ban of the Shabab against foreign NGOs Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment, no Caritas operation has been affected by the decision of the Shabab to close the activities of humanitarian organizations in different areas of Somalia controlled by them" ref ...
• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "In the long term disenchantment will prevail towards the political proposal of the Islamists," says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first data and not the final official data, but expresses a real tendency," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, commenting on the f ...