News

• 20 December 2010
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church insists in calling for international observers for the elections of 2011 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Nicaragua insists on the presence of international and domestic election observers to legitimize the outcome of the presidential and legislative elections which are schedu ...
• 20 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Sending missionary groups of children and young people of Czestochowa, 20 years on from Redemptoris Missio Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 18 December, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa organized a pilgrimage to the church of San Giacomo, where the material prepared ...
• 20 December 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - post-election violence: Cardinal Njue invites politicians not to inflame minds Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - While the controversy continues in Kenya on the publication of the names of six politicians accused of organizing the violence that followed the 2007-2008 elections - who are being investigated ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Even if food is not lacking, children in the east are still dying from malnutrition Kupang (Agenzia Fides) - A lack of trained health staff, treatments and health promotion make Indonesia's eastern province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) one of the country's most food insecure, despite the general avail ...
• 20 December 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The village of Gramalote destined to disappear due to rain Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - About six thousand people have fled their homes in a village in north-eastern Colombia. The Minister for the Interior said that probably in a few days it “will not exist anymore”, as the vill ...
• 18 December 2010
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Rebirth of “Radio St Gabriel", authentic voice of the Church Vanimo (Agenzia Fides) – The diocesan radio stations are spreading the authentic voice of the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea according to the Bishops of Papua New Guinea, informing Fides that the service “is bei ...
• 18 December 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Catholic youth, ambassadors of peace and reconciliation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The young people of Central Africa want to be “messengers of peace and reconciliation” in their land, marked by violence and conflict, is what the participants say at a meeting on the the ...
• 18 December 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - “Save Rizana, sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia”: appeal by religious leaders and human rights groups Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt appeal and a petition to save Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan Muslim woman sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is the initiative, Fides is told, undertaken by Christian, Muslim and ...
• 18 December 2010
  VATICAN - “Freedom of religion and mission” - Fides Editorial Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In his Message for the XLIV World Day of Peace, 1 January 2011, Benedict XVI assigns “an historic and prophetic mission” to religious freedom so that humanity may live in peace and sere ...
• 18 December 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - A radio station promotes AIDS initiative for young freelance journalists Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), the global radio station, has just launched a new competition to Nairobi via the web to create greater awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on children i ...
• 18 December 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “The world needs priests!”: “Missio Austria” raises funds for priests from three continents Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - “The world needs priests because it needs Christ. If the world no longer has Christ it will degenerate. Therefore investment in the formation of priests is the best investment in the future of ...
• 18 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic girl raped by a Muslim Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Gulfam, a nine year old Catholic girl, was raped by a Muslim man in the district of Samundari Tehsil, in the district of Faisalabad. Today the child is in shock and in the throes of a physica ...
• 17 December 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - The only hospital in Les Irois lacks medicines and doctors to combat the cholera Jeremie (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian Task Force (CTF) continues its activities in Haiti. Father Scott Binet and his collaborators, residing permanently in the Country for several months, are trying to respond to not o ...
• 17 December 2010
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Child marriage is a form of violence and abuse of human rights, women's rights groups increasingly committed New York (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Senate recently adopted the 'International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act', against the premature marriage of under age girls which often causes death. In many devel ...
• 17 December 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Dialogue is the only path to overcoming religious persecution”, Bishop of Luxor tells Fides Luxor (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church, since she was born, also and especially in the person of Jesus Christ, lives in the shadow of the Cross. But this is the strength of Christians, from the persecutions of the early m ...