News

• 26 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Concern in the Archdiocese of Tijuana for the disappearance of a priest Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Tijuana has expressed its concern about the disappearance of the diocesan priest Salvador Ruiz Enciso. In the statement, a copy was also sent to Fides, which is signed by the ...
• 26 May 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP.-The serious cholera epidemic continues to infect thousands of islanders Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – There is concern in the Dominican Republic due to the cholera epidemic that is affecting entire neighborhoods of the Caribbean island. The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolá ...
• 26 May 2011
  AMERICA/PERU '-"Sharing faith and material goods with the children in the world" Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Peru will celebrate next Sunday, May 29, the Day of Missionary Childhood, the feast of Christian children who live with joy the gift of faith and pray that the light of Jesu ...
• 26 May 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - A refugee camp has been assaulted from Libya: "we need to accelerate the reception procedures," says the priest who assists them Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " The UNHCR's responsible have arrived from Genova to try and handle the situation. The problem is that if the Tunisian government does not guarantee security, a commitment that was made when it ...
• 26 May 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA- The procedures for repatriation of Africans who fled from Libya and who are not entitled to asylum have begun Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " 350 Sudanese were repatriated last night and tonight another 250 from Sudan, Chad and the Ivory Coast. Virtually all those who do not have right to political asylum will be expelled to their cou ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA-War crimes and crimes against humanity on the Tamil: will be discussed at the UN Colombo (Fides Service) - The accusations of "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka will be discussed, starting from May 30, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva . As reporte ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH-After two years victims of the cyclone Aila still need help Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the cyclone Aila, which destroyed south western Bangladesh, thousands of survivors are still in need of everything. According to Bangladesh's Disaster Management Bureau, the peopl ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-The radio, a means to train new leaders of civil society, the antidote to fundamentalism Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to the radio, a means of communication and widely listened to by a lot of young Pakistanis, it is possible to train new leaders of civil society, with moderate and democratic ideas, based ...
• 25 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Every Catholic must assume missionary responsibility Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information received by Fides, there are several initiatives in this period by the continental Catholic community to promote evangelism. From May 13 to 15, 140 faithful, especially ...
• 25 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-New teaching center on media for tribal youths Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - The Lievens' Institute of Film and Electronic Media (LIFE), a new center of the Society of Jesus has recently been inaugurated in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, with the aim to give young people o ...
• 25 May 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-"Our priority is the reconciliation of souls" the national director of the PMS says to Fides Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Our priority as a Church is the reconciliation of people," says Father Alphonse N'Guessan N'Guessan, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Côte d'Ivoire to Fides. On M ...
• 25 May 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-On track with the young, on the streets with the poor, at school with the disabled, to proclaim Christ Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Going towards the young, the poor and disabled with a renewed pastoral impetus: this is the style that the Guanellians re-launch from the Philippines after the end of the GYM CONTEST, a highly aw ...
• 25 May 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Regain the "evangelical poverty" and the "Missio Dei": the PMS assembly of diocesan directors Alcalá de Henares (Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain has begun in Alcalá de Henares. The meeting will bring together a hundred responsible o ...
• 25 May 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-"The population is fleeing from Abyei under the rain and is at risk of epidemics, no one helps them" dramatic appeal of the parish priest and the Apostolic Administrator Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The population fleeing from the city is still moving towards south, " says Fr. Peter Suleiman, pastor of Abyei to Fides, a town on the border between north and south Sudan, occupied by troops ...
• 25 May 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI-The hope of a new life for the Haitian children returned back to their families Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Eight Haitian children who were in the Dominican Republic as victims of human trafficking were repatriated and returned back to their families with the help of the International Organizat ...