News

• 21 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Juan Manuel Santos new president of Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's former Minister of Defence won the second round of presidential elections held yesterday 20 June, with 69% of the votes compared to 27.5% of the rival candidate, ...
• 21 June 2010
  AMERICA/CHILE - Convalescent in hospital priest stabbed during the celebration of Mass Calbuco (Agenzia Fides) – A parish priest, stabbed during Mass on Friday 18 June and operated, is still in hospital convalescing. The priest was stabbed in the neck while distributing Holy Communion at the end of evening Mass ...
• 19 June 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Marriage crisis in Kenya: recent survey results Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Survey reveals marriage crisis amidst the pressures of modern life ”, was the title of an article in the Kenyan daily The Nation illustrating a survey on married life in this country. From ...
• 19 June 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Sahel: 10 million people risk famine; “Green Wall” to counter desertification Niamey (Agenzia Fides)- In Niger seven million people, more than half the entire population, suffer because of the acute food shortage affecting more than 10 million people all over the Sahel region of Africa. This was s ...
• 19 June 2010
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Humanitarian aid for North Korea and new paths for dialogue and reconciliation: the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea launches a call Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “The Catholic Church in Korea supports and encourages commitment on the part of the country's religious leaders for peace and solidarity. It is urgent to find new paths for dialogue and reconc ...
• 19 June 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Registration for this year's Taiwan Youth Day on the way to WYD Madrid 2011 Hsinchu (Agenzia Fides) – The diocese of Hsinchu, which will host Taiwan Youth Day 2010, has begun registration for the event on the diocesan web site and also through Facebook. A report sent to Fides said that the wee ...
• 19 June 2010
  ASIA/ PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Conference disapproves Government's new school programme for sex education Manila (Agenzia Fides) – In many areas of Philippines society to speak openly about human sexuality is still taboo and the government intends to make some changes introducing, in the new school year which has just star ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church calls people to vote “ freely and responsibly ” Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ruben Salazar Gomez, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Colombia, in a video message, a copy of which was sent to Fides, has called on Colombians to vote freely and with re ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Seminarians, "Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ”: First National Mission Congress Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Seminarians, Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd ", Bolivia's 1st Mission Congress for Seminarians will be held at San José Seminary in the city of Co ...
• 19 June 2010
  AMERICA/PERU - Continental Mission reaches remote parishes in the Cuzco Andes Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – Today the first meeting of the Deanery of Paruro will take place in the parish of San Martino de Tours in Ccapi, archdiocese Cuzco. Seven different parishes will be represented: Accha, Rondocan, ...
• 19 June 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New Rector appointed at Saint Thomas Aquinas major inter-diocesan Seminary in the diocese of Makurdi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 16 October 2009, appointed Rev. Cyril Oloruntoyin Obanure, of the diocesan clergy of Lokoja, Rector o ...
• 18 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: “the Church calls on all parties to shoulder their respective responsibilities and identify solutions other than simply heavier sanctions on illegal immigrants or the hermetic closure of borders” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We are all aware that migratory movements, especially in recent years have assumed the dimensions of real humanitarian crises. In the first place because the phenomenon has all the characteri ...
• 18 June 2010
  AFRICA - Crime is a threat to peace in the world, especially in the poorest countries New York (Agenzia Fides)- Trafficking of arms, drugs, human beings, selling of counterfeit medicines, maritime piracy, illegal burying of poisonous toxic refuse, looting of natural resources, forests and animals, compute ...
• 18 June 2010
  ASIA/KOREA - “Winds of war must not stop humanitarian aid to the North ”, the Church pleads Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –Political tensions and winds of war must not be allowed to stop humanitarian aid from reaching our hungry brothers and sisters in North Korea: this appeal was made by the Catholic Church in Korea ...
• 18 June 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Sacred Scripture and the Eucharist: -life-blood of Christian life Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – The initiative of encouraging “Regular reading of Holy Scripture and devout Eucharistic Adoration” was launched at the beginning of this year 2010 in the parish of Xiao Dian, diocese of T ...