News

• 21 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Tensions in Egypt: the supra-constitutional principles. Dossier Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - One of the causes of the strong tension in past days has resulted in clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other centers of Egypt, is the document submitted on 1 November by the Supreme Military Counci ...
• 21 November 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI consigned Africae munus: "I hope that this Exhortation will guide you in the proclamation of the Good News of Jesus in Africa" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "After having signed yesterday the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Africae munus, I am happy today to be able to deliver to all the particular Churches, through you, the Presidents of the nat ...
• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/TURKEY- The problematic crucial points for religious minorities and for those who have converted to Christianity Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the openess of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the restitution of properties to churches and other communities, the problems that Turkey's religious minorities live are significant. Acc ...
• 19 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU '- "Youth Without Borders" (JSF) they have been carrying out their missionary work for 36 years Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On December 3, feast of St. Francis Xavier, Patron of the Missions, the group "Youth Without Borders" (JSF) in Peru will celebrate 36 years of commitment to pastoral youth sponsored by the Pontific ...
• 19 November 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-Because of strong geographic and racial disparities one American child out of 5 is poor Washington (Agenzia Fides) - In 2010 the number of children considered poor in the United States increased by 1 million, one child out of 5 live in poverty. According to the latest census, just published, children living ...
• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for Cardinal Shan’s 90th birthday Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for the 90th birthday of the beloved Cardinal Paul Shan, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung. In view of the occasion, the Archbishop of the Diocese ...
• 19 November 2011
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Benin: "Modernity need not provoke fear, but neither can it be constructed by neglecting the past" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - The 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations with the Holy See and the 150th anniversary of the evangelization; the sighning of the African Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Africae munus; tr ...
• 19 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "An inconsistent campaign, which could lead to riots after the election": the concern of the missionaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Taking a first assessment of the election campaign, it is clear that politicians are campaigning without consistency", says the "Peace Network for Congo" in a note sent to Fides on the preside ...
• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Dommara girls’ heavy hereditary: forced into prostitution to support the family Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Universal Child’s Day, celebrated around the world on Sunday, November 20, the Spanish Catholic organization Manos Unidas has recalled the plight of the Dommara girls comm ...
• 19 November 2011
  AMERICA/ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Saint John's-Basseterre in the Antilles Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 19, 2011 appointed Rev. Monsignor Kenneth David Oswin Richards, General Vicar of Kingston in Jamaica as Bishop of the Diocese of Saint John's-Basset ...
• 19 November 2011
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Fighting poverty to eradicate child labor Panama (Agenzai Fides) - Fighting Poverty to eradicate child labor is the goal of the awareness campaign against the worst forms of child labor recently launched in the Republic of Panama. This scourge affects approximat ...
• 18 November 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY- Don Bosco’s missionary heart still beats in many Salesian novices Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the Lord calls many of the 500 novices who each year enter the Congregation to a life of mission ad gentes, ad extra, ad vitam. Currently about 30 Salesians respond with genero ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities in turmoil: a Christian killed, Hindus ask for "the revocation of citizenship" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian businessman, family man, was killed in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province; the Hindu faithful protest and in Parliament ask, provocatively, the government "to revoke the citizens ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Xaverians in Taiwan celebrated the canonization of the founder, St. Conforti Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Eucharist presided by Cardinal Paul Shan, the screening of a documentary about the founder, the inauguration of the statue of the Saint, an exhibition on the life and mission of Confort ...
• 18 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - 800 000 street children escaped from their families, abandoned because of poverty, victims of conflict and abuse Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Benin is a country where more than 3 million people live below the poverty line. Half of the population of the country, about four million are less than 18 years old, and among these, 33% live o ...