News

• 17 April 2013
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: to evangelize, baptism is enough Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Being Christian "is a gift that makes us go forward with the power of the Spirit in the proclamation of Jesus Christ." And "baptism is enough, it is sufficient to evangelize," to preach Chr ...
• 16 April 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the world there are between 5 and 8 million child workers: World Day against Child Slavery Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the World Day against Child Slavery is celebrated on April 16 . It was established in 1995, after the killing of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy who had complained of harassment since th ...
• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "The amount of drug that passes throughout our Country is alarming," denounces Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, called the huge amount of drugs seized recently in the country a "very serious" fact, because in his opinion it mean ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: Christians are encouraged to participate in the next election, but politics is the responsibility of the laity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - An encouragement to participate in the upcoming provincial election, and to make serious and positive proposals to contribute to the common good has been addressed to all the Christians of Iraq ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - General Elections: the Church traces the identikit of the "good candidate" Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) – To face the next general elections, scheduled for next May 13, "with the eyes of faith" and "the mind enlightened by the values of the Gospel." This is what a Pastoral Letter by His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A church burnt down: violence carried out by Hindu fundamentalist in Chhattisgarh Kondagaon (Agenzia Fides) - There is no peace for Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The state, on the border with the states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, is emerging as one of those in wh ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education for poor children in the indian slums of Allahabad Allahabad (Agenzia Fides) - The International Day of street children who in the world are about 250 million was recently celebrated. We are talking about vulnerable young children, forced to beg and steal to survive with ...
• 16 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The already poor population is stripped of everything," denounces the Bishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Bangui is a dead city. There are very few people on the streets " says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga Archbishop of Bangui who yesterday, made a tour in the two districts o ...
• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The action of young people in storms was a "silent revolution," says a Bishop La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary bishops of La Plata, Mgr. Nicolas Baisi and Mgr. Alberto Bochatey, claimed that many young volunteers acted "heroically" during the storm that hit the capital Buenos Aires the fir ...
• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/CANADA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 20 December 2012 appointed rev. Fr. Alex Osei, CSSp as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
• 15 April 2013
  VATICAN - Listening to Asia: Pathways for faith, societies and religions, between tradition and contemporaneity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Listening to Asia: Pathways for faith, societies and religions, between tradition and contemporaneity" is the theme of the International Conference which began this morning at the Pontific ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Domestic violence for almost 83% of children in the country La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 83% of Bolivian children suffer domestic violence, more than one million work on the streets in conditions of serious risk and, according to the state agency Defensoría del Pueblo, at lea ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Family, public education and well-paid job," the concern of the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the present and the future of our country," say the Bishops of Chile in a statement published at the end of their 105th Plenary Assembly held last week. "We invite all ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Symbolic targets have been hit," said Mgr. Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Symbolic places were hit," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, where yesterday, Sunday, April 14, at least 34 civil ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Nicolas Maduro new Venezuelan President Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Nicolas Maduro, the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the elections on Sunday, April 14th with 50.66% of votes. His mandate as President of Venezuela will end in 20 ...