News

• 17 June 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI-The revolution " colored red " by professors and university students continues Lilongwe (Fides Service) -The clash between the government and the academic staff to defend the freedom of teaching continues, recognized both by the local Constitution as well as the Treaty of Kampala, of which Malawi i ...
• 17 June 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO- About one thousand suspected cases of chikungunya have been identified in the capital Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - In the last two weeks nearly a thousand suspected cases of chikungunya have been identified in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, a mosquito-borne viral disease which causes ...
• 17 June 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-Appointment of the Rector of the Major Seminary "St. John the Baptist" in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -On 15 April 2011, Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the Major Seminary interdiocesan "St. John the Baptist" in the Archd ...
• 16 June 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL- Another defender of the Amazon rainforest has been murdered Tucurui (Agenzia Fides) - The farmer and activist for the defense of the Amazon, Obed Loyla Souza, 31, was killed on Thursday, June 9 in the Brazilian state of Pará (North Brazil). The news was released on June 14. The ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-The Bishop of Tai Chung will celebrate Mass at the peak of the highest mountain in Taiwan to raise money for the poor in Swaziland Tai Chung (Fides Service) – Welcoming the invitation of the American foundation "Heart for Africa," His Exc. Mgr. Martin Su Yao-Wen, Bishop of the diocese of Tai Chung, will celebrate Mass at the peak of the highest mo ...
• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA-Mgr. Martinelli notes "a sincere desire for dialogue to restore peace" after a meeting with the Islamic Call Society Tripoli (Fides Service) - "There is a sincere desire for dialogue and to bring back peace", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides, who yesterday, June 15, met the manager ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-One person arrested for the murder of Shabhaz Bhatti; for the Christian community it is "urgent to do justice" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A man suspected of being involved in the murder of the Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was arrested by the police in Karachi. The man admitted, in a wiretap, that he took part in the pl ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Six years after the tsunami, 170 families still live in unhealthy shacks Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - After more than six years after the devastating tsunami that struck Indonesia in December 2004 hundreds of residents of the city of Banda Aceh in northwestern Indonesia, are still living in " ...
• 16 June 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-The prizes of communication have been awarded between journalistic works from around the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The International Communication Awards "Centinelas of mañana" (Morning Sentinel) have been awarded, promoted by the Spanish Foundation "White Report" on the occasion of World Youth Day (WYD), to ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kohima Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2011, the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Kohima (India) Rev. Sac. James Thoppil of the clergy of Kohima, Rector of Oriens Theological College in Sh ...
• 16 June 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR-A priest in the North: "due to the civil war more than 2,000 Kachin refugees, many in the churches" Myitkyina (Fides Service) - A furious civil war is underway in northern Myanmar. "The clashes between the national army and the militia of the ethnic Kachin are creating great suffering to the civilian population: there ...
• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-A missionary from South Kordofan: "I saw an air raid from Khartoum", the local people ask me "where is the international community?" Juba (Fides Service) - Fighting in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, between the northern and southern army continues. "On the Nuba Mountains, schools are closed and te ...
• 16 June 2011
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New support program for 5 and a half million orphans in the country Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - Millions of Ethiopians who look after the orphans in a country where, in May, annual inflation exceeded 34%, are forced to sell their belongings or to send the children to beg. Fortunately a ...
• 15 June 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-Over 2 million children at the Childhood Congress in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid to be saints": this expression of Blessed John Paul II was the theme of the Second Congress of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese in Czestochowa, which was held on Jun ...
• 15 June 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-A Center of Evangelization in the Cathedral of Beijing to respond to the Year of Evangelization of the Lay Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen and better coordinate the activities of evangelization thus responding to the needs generated by the Year of Evangelization of the Lay promoted by the diocese, the Cathedral of Bei ...