News

• 3 December 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Mgr. Hung thanks the fathers of Scheut: "we pay tribute to these missionaries who truly love with all their heart Taiwan and the entire Church" Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "We pay tribute and thank those missionaries who, with prophetic spirit, truly love with all their heart Taiwan and the entire Church, and look to the real needs of Taiwan": said His Exc. Mgr. J ...
• 3 December 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - One Afghan child in 10 dies before their fifth birthday Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Afghanistan has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. According to the national government's first Study, conducted on a sample of 22,351 families and distributed by the Pajhwok ...
• 3 December 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops call for an agreement to avoid the strike on behalf of doctors scheduled on December 5 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya have urged the government to enter into fruitful dialogue with doctors who avert a pending strike on December 5 to demand a 300% pay hike. In a statement, issued on 1 Decemb ...
• 3 December 2011
  VATICAN - The " Sermons of Advent " this year dedicated to evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The traditional " Sermons of Advent " in view of Christmas, delivered by the preacher of the Pontifical Household at the Roman Curia, in the presence of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, will t ...
• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMU on a pilgrimage to Jasna Gora: missiological session dedicated to John Paul II and Pauline Jaricot Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary activity of the Blessed John Paul II and the missionary committment of the Servant of God Pauline M. Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, are the ...
• 2 December 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Course for lay missionaries: to deepen the sense of parish missionary Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Second Course for lay missionaries held in the Archdiocese of Cochabamba has just concluded with success and optimism. The coordinator of the activities of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels: 85 years of missionary service through education and youth ministry Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Offering complete education, so that Catholic values become a solid foundation for students: these are the commitments of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels, MNDA, in 85 years of ...
• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" is the general theme the International Day of Persons with Disabilities will focus on which is celebrated on December 3. Disabl ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - More than 10,000 Bibles arrive in a hot-air balloon Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Bibles cross the bamboo curtain and reaches the North Korean faithful with a hot-air balloon. Over 10 thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures were delivered to the Christians living in Nor ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shabhaz Bhatti remembered in Italy for his testimony of faith in politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An excellent testimony of faith in politics, significant for the present and the future of Pakistan: With these reasons, on Sunday, December 4, the figure of Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Re ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - City of Hope, a school for young people of Makeni Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Makeni is one of the suburbs in the south of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Here, in 1995, the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco built a temporary Open Community School for girls, with the hope that ...
• 2 December 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Women religious attacked on the basis of charges all to be verified": the Archbishop of Kananga denounces the climate of electoral tension Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A number of women religious have been attacked in the Archdiocese of Kananga in relation to the tense atmosphere in which presidential elections were held (see Fides 30/11/2011). This was denou ...
• 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 ...