News

• 8 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Nearly a million requests of help to Caritas in 2010, the majority are families Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 950 000 people living in Spain went to the assistance Service of Caritas in 2010 to meet their basic needs, especially for food, 550,000 more over the past three years, according to th ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - "Transparency and reform": civil society is demonstrating, with their eyes towards the "Arab Spring" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The "Arab Spring" is coming to the East. The biggest event of the Malaysian civil society in the last 50 years is announced for tomorrow, July 9, which plans to bring together over 400 thou ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-The Trappist Cistercians of the Abbey of Our Lady of Joy have been in Hong Kong for 60 years Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Trappists (Cistercians of the Strict Observance, O.C.S.O) of the Trappist Abbey Our Lady of Joy celebrated their 60 years of service in Hong Kong on July 2, with a Mass presided by the Adm ...
• 8 July 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA-In the country people continue to die due to lack of basic medicines and anesthetics Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the lack of anesthetics, one person dies every week in Kenya, and the situation is particularly serious in rural areas. In areas such as Turkana in the Rift Valley, and Northeastern provi ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Surgery to change sex to female infants: the condemnation of the Church Bhopal (Fides Service) –What has taken hold in the state of Madhya Pradesh (central India) is an aberrant phenomenon: cases in which doctors practice surgery to change sex to female babies multiply, at the request of p ...
• 8 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-On a mission in the coastal area, where you travel miles on foot to go to Mass Quilacahuín (Fides Service) - A priest and a religious of the Vincentian Lazarists (Congregation of the Mission), father Neftali Shaw and brother Jorge Hidalgo, have defined the ministry of pastoral missionary that the ...
• 7 July 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA-"It is urgent for human beings to regain respect and dignity " underline the Bishops on the occasion of the Bicentenary Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela, the Episcopal Conference of Latin American has published a document ...
• 7 July 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Return of immigrants and insecurity among the problems of the new state of Southern Sudan, "but the hope is high", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Khartoum (Fides Service) - One of the problems that South Sudan will have to face is the accommodation of hundreds of thousands of immigrant southern Sudanese who are returning from Khartoum and other areas of northern S ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The first Cultural Festival of the Cathedral of Bao Ding re-launches mission through the religious culture Bao Ding (Agenzia Fides) - The first Cultural Festival organized by the Cathedral of the Diocese of Bao Ding, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, took place on July 2, on the day of the 106th anniversary of the founding ...
• 7 July 2011
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Assembly of the Episcopal Conference: waiting for the message at the end of the work Panama City (Fides Service) - The Ordinary Assembly of the Bishops of Panama, number 192 in the session, which began on July 4 is still in progress. The program provides for the conclusion of the work on the 8th of July, ...
• 7 July 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-Appeal for the new state of Southern Sudan: hopes and anxiety about the future of this region Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, the Archbishop of Adelaide, Mgr.Philip Wilson, has asked to respond with a spirit of solidarity to the appeal launched by Caritas Aust ...
• 7 July 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-Appointment of the Rector of the Theological major Seminary "Paul VI" in the Archdiocese of Douala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Benoit Kala, of the diocesan clergy of Nkongsamba, Rector of the inter-diocesan The ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals want to enter (by force) their children to Catholic schools Belgaum (Fides Service) - A group of 50 militants of the radical Hindu groups burst into St. Joseph school, of the Sisters of Canossian in Belgaum, to impose on the religious women to enter their two boys in their schoo ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - APMA mediation fails in the case of Farah, the Catholic Islamized by force Lahore (Fides Service) - The first attempt of mediation by the "All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA) in the case of Hatim Farah, the kidnapped Catholic girl, married and converted to Islam by the Muslim Iliyas in Zee ...
• 7 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-"Respect for migrants' asked by the Bishop of Cordoba Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The safety and respect for life are necessary for Central American migrants who cross the lands of Veracruz, and it is our duty to give them hospitality to make their journey easier, although th ...