News

• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A teenager fights for the right to education of her peers Islamabad (Agenzai Fides) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize, recently announced in Cape Town, the five candidates for the International Child Prize for Peace 2011. This is an initiative sponsored by Kids Right ...
• 29 November 2011
  VATICAN - The pain and the Pope's prayer for the nun and the volunteer killed in Burundi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI sent a message, through the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to the Bishop of Ngozi, to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Brescia, to M ...
• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "The people are hostage in a reign of terror and impunity", the complaint is from the forum "Justice for Fr. Tentorio" Arakan (Agenzia Fides) - Harassment and intimidation to tribal peolple and social leaders; threats to the missionaries; chaos and suffering of the people, in a "reign of terror and impunity" This is what the religious, C ...
• 29 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Calm elections, but in some polling stations voting was carried out on ballots which were not stamped" local sources say Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections are taking place in a serene atmosphere, with a high turnout", said local Church sources to Fides from Cairo, capital of Egypt, where the first round of voting to elect the lower ho ...
• 29 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Access to antiretroviral drugs has decreased the number of deaths due to AIDS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Day to Fight AIDS, which is celebrated on December 1 next, UNAIDS, the UN agency that deals with the pandemic, today reported that people with HIV live longer and the num ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop of Orissa’s appeal to the faithful: "Heralds of Hope, for the common good" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "As we approach Christmas, we want to be heralds of a message of hope, in the certainty that God accompanies His people": this is the appeal launched to the faithful of Orissa by His Exc. Mg ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Hong Kong diocese is preparing to welcome a new deacon Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Hong Kong, and especially the parish of St. Jude, are preparing to welcome a new deacon originally from the diocese, Mai Ying Jiang, who was educated at the diocesan Seminary in ...
• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU-Missionary missing for 5 days in the Peruvian jungle Moyobamba (Agenzia Fides) - Father Alfonso Asencios Zuluoga, a Vincentian missionary has been missing for five days. The priest, of the parish of Our Lady de los Remedios, in La Banda of Shilcayo, belongs to the Congrega ...
• 28 November 2011
  EUROPE/IRELAND- An Irish missionary awarded for her commitment towards people with AIDS Cork (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Miriam Duggan, from the county of Limerick, a Franciscan Missionary of the Sisters for Africa of, was awarded for her dedication to people with AIDS/HIV and commitment in fighting the pandem ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Six churches threatened by extremist groups, other two will be demolished by the state Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –Islamic extremists of the Islamic Defenders Front ("Front Pembela Islam," FPI) took to the streets en masse in Bekasi, one of the biggest suburbs of the metropolis of Jakarta, threatening to ra ...
• 28 November 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - A nun and a volunteer killed, another woman religious seriously injured during a robbery Kiremba (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Lukrecija Mamica, of Croatian origin, and Francesco Bazzani, an Italian volunteer, were killed during a robbery attempt, while a second religious, Italian, Sister Carla Brianza, was injur ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "The NATO attack may compromise the fight against terrorism and religious harmony in Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The NATO attack is serious because it can compromise the fight against terrorism but also interreligious harmony, intercultural dialogue, and peace in Pakistan": with these words, the Catholi ...
• 28 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must discern the signs of the times and be witnesses of hope before violence", urges Cardinal Rivera Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico, Norberto Rivera Carrera, urged Mexicans not to think that they have already been defeated and not to give in to despair in the face of rising violence acro ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/SYRIA - Torture and mutilation of children held in prisons in the country Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) expressed serious concern due to the incidents of general violation of human rights that are registered in Syria and for the total impunity to ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of Auxiliaries of the Archdiocese of Colombo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 28, 2011 appointed Rev. Fidelis Emmanuel Lionel Fernando, Episcopal Vicar for the faithful of the Archdiocese of Tamil Columbus and Rev. Sampathawad ...