News

• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “President Aquino, confirm the policies for respect for life,” request from activists in the “Month for Life” Manila (Agenzia Fides) – President Benigno Aquino should “confirm, absolutely and with legal measures, not just with words, that the Government intends to pursue family and demographic policies in complete respect fo ...
• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - More than one and a half million child labourers, 24% are girls Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - According to an International Labour Organization (ILO) report, documenting Nepal's sizeable population of child labourers, this year one million fewer children are working in Nepal than a dec ...
• 1 February 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Continual attention from the Catholic community to encouraging vocations Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – Among the most popular initiatives in many Catholic communities in view of the Chinese New Year, is the visiting of families of priests, men and women religious, by members of the community, ...
• 1 February 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church's expectations from the visit of President Obama: welfare and development, emigration San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador awaits the visit from the President of the United States, Barack Obama, with a positive outlook, hoping to establish the basis for a “radical reform f ...
• 1 February 2011
  VATICAN - The Intentions entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Following are the Intentions that the Holy Father Benedict XVI has entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2012. January General: That the victims of natural disasters may receive ...
• 1 February 2011
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of Rector at “Saint Luc” inter-diocesan Major Seminary in N’Djamena Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 14 May 2010, appointed as Rector at “Saint Luc” inter-diocesan Major Seminary in N’Djamena (Cha ...
• 31 January 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prayer celebrated for peace in all churches: a sign of hope for Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The Day of prayer and fasting for peace celebrated yesterday, 30 January, in all the churches in Pakistan, was and is “a bright sign of hope for the whole Country.” It is an initiative whi ...
• 31 January 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - India celebrates Pope John Paul II, on the 25th anniversary of his Visit to the nation New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – From tomorrow, 1 February, India will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Visit of John Paul II to the Asiatic nation in 1986. It will be “an event which carries a strong message of pea ...
• 31 January 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - A village of vocations on the Silk Road Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – A small village on Silk Road, inhabited by 660 people, of whom 400 are Catholic (about 130 families), has given 14 vocations to the Church in recent years: 7 priests, 1 deacon, 3 religious si ...
• 31 January 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Legal fraternity witnesses to “importance of our Christian values in our day to day work” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – This morning at St Mary's Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Sydney, Bishop Anthony Fisher, OP, of Parramatta, celebrated the Red Mass. This Mass is “a very public witness of the importance of o ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Alert in the region of Caprivi for the breaking banks of the Zambezi River Widhoec (Agenzia Fides) – More than 1,000 people have been “relocated permanently” from the 32 villages at risk of flooding in Caprivi, the most northerly province of Namibia, preparing to meet a Zambezi River swol ...
• 31 January 2011
  VATICANO - In light of the Beatitudes “the Church does not fear poverty, humiliation or persecution in a society often attracted by material wellbeing and worldly power” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The Beatitudes are a new programme for life, to free ourselves from the false values of the world and open ourselves to true goodness, now and in the future, said the Holy Father Pope ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A centre to young Christians and Muslims in the State of Plateau to not take the path of violence to resolve problems Jos (Agenzia Fides) – A formation centre for young Christians and Muslims was officially opened on 27 January in Hai-Hong, Bokkos, 70 km from Jos, capital of the Nigerian State of Plateau, where in recent times various ...
• 31 January 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 99% of voters in favour of independence of Southern Sudan while in Khartoum the students are in revolt Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Sudan will become an independent State. The results from the referendum held from 9-15 January were published yesterday, 30 January. The announcement was made from Juba, capital of the ...
• 31 January 2011
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - "Day for street children" to remember the 30 million abandoned children Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – Currently there are about 30 million children in the world who have been abandoned to live on the street, victims of drug traffickers, exploiters of child labour and prostitution, according to ...