News

• 11 January 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Reconstruction still far away, one year on from the earthquake; fear of attacks and blocked roads for the ballot Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A year on after the repercussions of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, 2010 continue to be felt especially in rural areas, aggravated by the running epidemic o ...
• 11 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We are here to express our solidarity with the Church in the south and in the north of Sudan” said a spokesperson of the SACBC Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “Things are going incredibly well. Most of the population has voted and the situation is very calm,” Father Chris Townsend tells Fides, a spokesperson for the SACBC, located in Juba (south Suda ...
• 10 January 2011
  VATICAN - The pope encourages all the faithful “to rediscover the beauty of being baptised” and recalls the earthquake in Haiti and the commitment to religious freedom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I would like to encourage all the faithful to rediscover the beauty of being baptised and belonging to the great family of God, and to give joyful witness of their faith, that they may g ...
• 10 January 2011
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Dodoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on 9 January, 2011, appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Dodoma (Tanzania), Father Gervas John Mwasikwabhila Nyaisonga of Mbeya, Assistant Professor at St Augusti ...
• 10 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Vote calm, people participate en-masse,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people are voting en-masse and so far the voting procedures have taken place in calm,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio told Fides, in southern Sudan, where yesterday, 9 ...
• 10 January 2011
  Africa/Kenya - More than 150,000 people at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 150,000 people are at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya. According to the Kenyan daily, “The Nation”, “children under five years of age, pregnant women and elderly people a ...
• 10 January 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter for 2011 by the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – “Walking together to man, living for the Lord – To be fulfilled and to fulfil others in holiness, to the full”, is the title of the 2011 Pastoral Letter of the Regional Episcopal Confere ...
• 10 January 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of hope: 3 Haitian deacons among the Claretians, a year on from the earthquake Jimani (Agenzia Fides) – The Father General of the Congregation of the Claretians, Father Josep Maria Abella, shortly before Christmas, visited the missionary zones of Kasal and Nason in Haiti, and met with the local ...
• 10 January 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another Bishop takes up Twitter: presence of the Church increases in social networking sites Durango (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Durango, Archbishop Héctor González Martínez, opened a Twitter account in the last few days. Including him, there are now five members of the Mexican ecclesial hierarchy w ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The independence of southern Sudan is at risk due to the tragedy of millions of displaced people from the north, denounces Sudanese Bishop Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the euphoria of independence now they must deal with the harsh reality of the thousands and thousands of southern Sudanese who have returned to the south and who have nothing. Ther ...
• 8 January 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO - A new law to protect the rights of indigenous peoples Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – The Republic of Congo is destined to become the first country in Africa to provide special legal protection to its indigenous peoples. In a declaration by Jean Ganga, president of the Asso ...
• 8 January 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Communion and prayer are the beginning of true unity” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Communion and prayer are the beginning of true unity”, is the title of the message sent by Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong of Kwangju and President of the CBCK Committee for Promoting Chr ...
• 8 January 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Step by step towards peace”: a march to stop the violence against migrants Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) – Dozens of central American immigrants and activists from Mexico began a march in south-east Mexico on the afternoon of 7 January to protest against the violence suffered by clandestine migran ...
• 8 January 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Thousands of displaced people thanks to floods and landslides Manila (Agenzia Fides) – More than 4,500 people have been affected by heavy rains that have battered the east coast of the Philippines and there are about 10,00 that are seeking refuge. According to relief officials, a ...
• 4 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” in Czestochowa help children in Uganda Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The “Star Singers” initiative, which began over 50 years ago in Germany as an initiative of solidarity by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, has spread to several other nati ...