News

• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In ten years 1455 people sentenced to death: Civil society demands to stop the executioner New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - From the Indian civil society a cry to "stop the executioner" in India: during the years 2001-2011 1,455 people were sentenced to death, which means "a man condemned to death every three days" ...
• 15 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A parish in the heart of the Amazon for the Redemptorist missionaries Acre (Agenzia Fides) - For a community of Redemptorist missionary priests the parish of São Jose was given, in Rodrigues Alves in the State of Acre, Brazil, the State to the west of the Northwest of Brazil, in the middl ...
• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/HONGKONG - "From Sacred Scripture to Jesus Christ": Pastoral Letter for Lent Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Didache, koinonia and diakonia, three characteristics that distinguish the original Christian community are the main themes of the Pastoral Letter for Lent by card. John Tong, Bishop of the Di ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan have been postponed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan that were to open on February 13 in Addis Ababa have been posponed. The meeting was to reach an agreement for the creation of a demilitarized zone on the bor ...
• 14 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus: Benedict XVI was close to these forgotten people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – What has just begun will be the third Lent of suffering for Christians living in Syria. A time marked by anxiety and hope. This is what the Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus writes ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Thousands of children kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated and exploited in armed conflicts Goma (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world thousands of children are kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated, recruited by armed groups. During the International Day against the use of child soldiers, which has just conclud ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The nuns, except those of Benghazi, have left Cyrenaica" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "On the anniversary of the revolution anything could happen" said to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, just days before the second anniversary ...
• 14 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Homes, schools and orphanages: main areas at risk of sexual abuse of minors New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement released following the murder of a student in New Delhi in December 2012, the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the sexual abuse of minors as an alarming phenomeno ...
• 14 February 2013
  VATICAN - Lent in communion with Christians who suffer Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Live "a different Lent " with the mere thought of "Christians in the world who are suffering for Christ's sake": is the invitation addressed to all the faithful in the world by the pontifical righ ...
• 14 February 2013
  AMERICA - The radio as a tool for evangelization Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Communication of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) celebrated with UNESCO and the entire world the Day of the Radio. A note sent to Fides Agency presents the initiat ...
• 14 February 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: the Pope's prayer will purify the Church Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We support the decision of the Pope with prayer and we are sure that his prayers will continue to purify the Church for centuries to come": is what His Exc. Mgr. Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of ...
• 14 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue for peace between the government and FARC, the Church will not go to Cuba Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, announced that the Catholic Church is not going to Havana, capital of Cuba, in response to the invitation to the Colombian Bishops from t ...
• 14 February 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic school students - an active part in the Chinese New Year Fair Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - To promote evangelization, the sense of community and collaboration among Catholic school students were the main focus of the young people who took part in the traditional Chinese New Year Fai ...
• 13 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missionary Congress of the PMS in Mexico followed around the world via the Internet Tepatitlán of Morelos (Agenzia Fides) - The eighth edition of the Diocesan Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (VIII Codiam) under the slogan: "Teens and missionary children, with joy we share our faith" wa ...
• 13 February 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishop Shomali: any consent of the Church to the Wall in the Valley of Cremisan was denied in court Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "The lawyers of the Israeli army said the route of the separation Wall in the valley of Cremisan had received the consent of the Church. But this key issue of giving deposition before the judg ...