News

• 19 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - A call to cancel Haiti's foreign debt Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – One of the measures to be taken urgently, to alleviate the appalling suffering of the Haitian people is the abolition of a large part of the 641 million dollars of foreign debt owed by ...
• 19 January 2010
  VATICAN - The Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO) begins, focusing on support for clergy in Eastern Europe and Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In this Year for Priests, the 82nd Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO), taking place January 19-20 at the Vatican, will be mainly dedicated to the issued of support ...
• 19 January 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Let us support the people of Haiti”: appeal from South African Christian leaders Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The leaders of the Christian communities in South Africa launched an appeal to solidarity for the people of Haiti. “Let us support the People in Haiti with our bread. Haiti’s devastat ...
• 19 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - All 16 Franciscan Friars survive earthquake, at work in relief effort; convent and schools destroyed Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The day of the earthquake it was as if a bomb had exploded. We brought first aid to many people. I saw terrible scenes. I saw people die as we tried to provide them with first aid. It wa ...
• 19 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - CLAR and CELAM for Haiti: over 100 religious dead or missing; SOS for medicines, doctors, and nurses Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the thousands dead or missing, there are over 100 men and women religious," says a release from the Secretary General of CLAR (Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Men and Women R ...
• 19 January 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Military regime appoints new Prime Minister; “We need to get to work immediately, because the economic situation is extremely serious,” Church sources say Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – The military junta has appointed Guinean Prime Minister Jean-Marie Dore. Doré will lead the government of national unity under the agreement concluded on January 15, in Ouagadougou, capital o ...
• 19 January 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church tells government: “No to religion in politics,” like Bangladesh Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - No to the use and abuse of religion in politics, which is the cause of many ills in the country and is a fact that generates misunderstanding and discrimination against religious minorities, is t ...
• 19 January 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Main challenges of the new Bolivian Government, according to Bishops La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – At the request of the newspaper "La Prensa", the press office of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference has prepared a brief summary of the main challenges, which according to the Bolivian Catholic C ...
• 19 January 2010
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Vaccine against dengue and malaria by transforming strain of vaccine for yellow fever El Carmen (Agenzia Fides) - The medical-scientific project on the transformation of the strain of the vaccine '17D ' against the yellow fever into antibodies for the vaccine against dengue and malaria was presented at th ...
• 18 January 2010
  VATICAN - Pope at Angelus: “Our proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus will be much more credible and effective the more that we are united in his love.” New appeal for Haiti. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Day of the Migrant and Refugee, religious dialogue with the Jews, and Christian unity were the three main themes addressed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in his discourse at the Ange ...
• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Christian Brothers: no one hurt, novitiate takes in sisters left homeless Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “In Haiti, we have 15 Brothers on the “Ile de la Tortua,” in Port de Paix and Port-au-Prince. There have been no deaths or injuries, nor damage done to our houses. There was only sl ...
• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Clerics of St. Viator: 3 missing members in Grand Goave found alive, although wounded Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Attorney General of the Clerics of Saint Viator, contacted by Agenzia Fides, reported that, according to information received from their community in Haiti, the Villa Manrese (home ...
• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Monfortians: 10 seminarians dead, confirmed death of missing priest Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – From the updates sent in by Fr. Maurice regarding the situation of the Monfortians in Haiti, it seems that 10 students have lost their lives, all of whom had participated in the CIFOR ( ...
• 18 January 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Spiritans all saved, except one seminarian Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “It has been confirmed that all Spiritans (CSSp), except one seminarian Stephane Douge, have survived the earthquake in Haiti,” Agenzia Fides has been told by Fr. John McFadden CSSp, ...
• 18 January 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Over 5 million HK$ collected in 2009 in the Catholic Church Lenten Campaign for charitable organizations Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church Lenten Campaign of the Diocese of Hong Kong in 2009 was able to gather over 5,570,000 HK$ (equivalent to approximately 500,000 euros), allocated to the operations grouped ...