News

• 1 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - More than a million people need food aid Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Due to very scarse harvest, more than a million people in the Midlands Provinces are forced to survive eating fruit as a main meal in the evening, and are not able to pay school fees for their ch ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace initiative towards ethnic minorities is about to start: a national conference is being prepared Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a "courageous, initiative, with a potential to solve the devastating civil war with ethnic groups, which has been going on for 60 years", this is how the International Crisis Group (ICG) th ...
• 30 November 2011
  "That children and young people may be messengers of the Gospel and that they may be respected and preserved from all violence and exploitation" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for December 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Since the beginning, the Church has always had a special sensitivity for young people and children. The Lord Jesus urged the apostles to let the children go to Him and urged all his discip ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A wave of anti-US protest: Pakistani Christians are afraid of retaliation Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of protest against the United States and the West has not calmed down, started after the bombing by NATO forces, which in past days, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers on the Pakistani-Afghan ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Christian Kachin kidnapped and raped: "Hillary Clinton look at our suffering" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who arrives in Myanmar today, "look at the suffering of the Kachin ethnic minorities, mainly Christians, victims of atrocities and abuses of the Burm ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Homes razed, crops destroyed: the floods continue to do damage Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Floods caused by torrential rains that have recently hit the south of Vietnam continue to flood the country, victims only a month ago of one of the worst floods in the last decade. When the situat ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says a missionary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says to Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary, an attentive observer of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co ...
• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - A massive demonstration against the mining project in Cajamarca Cajamarca (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Agenzia Fides from Radio Marañón, today, November 30, the region of Cajamarca is preparing a massive mobilization. The city of Cajamarca is isolated due to a ...
• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Only with families one can think to build the new Paraguay": the Pastoral Letter on the Family has been presented Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The first day of the novena to Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé, on November 28, the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) presented the Pastoral Letter on the Family, which opens the three y ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Mandalay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 30, 2011 appointed His Exc. Mgr.Nicholas Mang Thang, until now Bishop of Hakha as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mandalay (Myanmar). The ...
• 30 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Gbagbo handed over to the International Criminal Court: worrying statements in the newspapers close to him Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In Abidjan so far there have not been demonstrations in favor of Gbagbo and the situation is calm, but the opposition newspapers, close to the deposed President, have strongly criticized the go ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: "We are confident in a future of peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are confident for the future of the country. We hope to continue the path undertaken at a political and social level and we hope to see the fruits in the near future, for the good of the enti ...
• 30 November 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - More than 3,500 children and adolescents work to support families La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian families of low income force many children to work as a shoeshine, peddlers, window washers, carters. According to the recent survey "Infancia sin derechos", carried out by the Obser ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic community has long been committed to the prevention, support and care of AIDS Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in mainland China is always at the forefront of AIDS prevention, support, assistance and medical care of the sick or infected by the virus. According to information gathered by ...
• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Continental Catholic community has begun the new liturgical year in communion with the Universal Church Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "Living Advent with a heart full of grace, a heart of praise and a heart of repentance and obedience; living Advent with so much love, participating in the celebration of the sacraments, ...