News

• 31 January 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Two religious communities forced to leave Cyrenaica, complaint by Mgr. Martinelli, "In coming days we expect difficult times" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Two religious communities leave Cyrenaica after being pressured by fundamentalists" is the complaint made to Fides Agency by His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Trip ...
• 31 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - For the U.S. Bishops the parliamentary agreement on immigration reform is "an important first step" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "An important first step," this is how, in a statement, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the recent agreement on the reform of immigration law by Congress. The agreem ...
• 31 January 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "A hot winter" Chinese New Year full of love also for the most vulnerable Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, the Chinese New Year will be celebrated. Through the solidarity campaign "A Hot Winter", sponsored by the Foundation of Social Charitable Works of the Sisters of Our Lady of Chin ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Funding for AIDS drugs have halved while the Country must cope with flood damage Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The contributions donated by the International Fund to Fight AIDS have halved, it is a real alarm. The funds allowed nearly 500,000 people to regularly get ARVs" is Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba’s c ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Marriages between adult men and minor girls still go unpunished Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of early marriages between adult men and young girls still children, continues to be very serious in the world. Recent data highlight that about 70 million women between 20-24 yea ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops on the upcoming elections: we need a law against political dynasties Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The corruption and the cumbersome presence of "political dynasties", that heavily influence public life, are an obstacle to genuine democratization in the country and are part of a "long litany o ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Despite the peace agreements, violence against civilians continues Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the peace agreements and the appointment of a Prime Minister in charge of forming a government of national unity, in the Central African Republic incidents of looting and violence aga ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Armenian Catholic Archbishop on the massacre in Aleppo: " we are addicted to daily horror " Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The effect of the condition in which we have been living for more than a year is that we are now addicted to horror everyday." This is how the Archbishop of Aleppo of the Armenian Catholics, Bou ...
• 30 January 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Drugs are also present in primary schools": Mgr. Bressanelli calls for the intervention of the State Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Neuquén and Vice President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Hios Exc. Mgr. Virginio Domingo Bressanelli, S.C.I., expressed concern about the economic situati ...
• 30 January 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - In the prison of Uribana 58 deaths and 88 injured: "the Catholic Church cannot remain inactive!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with the ineffective government prison policy, with the overcrowding, lack of adequate food, uncontrolled violence, procedural delays and all the humiliation suffered by the families, amo ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The ten points of the Church for the Year of Faith Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - How to strengthen the faith of the population? How to respond to the pastoral challenges (such as poverty and the presence of sects) and to the spiritual needs of the faithful? In the midst of ...
• 30 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Here I am Lord": meeting in the Year of Faith for the university students in Xing Tai Xing Tai (Agenzia Fides) - "Here I am Lord" was the theme of the meeting in the Year of Faith of the University students in Xing Tai, in the province of He Bei, held from January 26 to 28. According to what was said to F ...
• 30 January 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Over 50 thousand people displaced due to the floods Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Following the heavy rains that are flooding the southern part of Mozambique, where already a decade ago, hundreds of people died, local authorities have planned the evacuation of 50 000 people. S ...
• 29 January 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Consecrated people: communication and evangelization via mobile phone Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The mobile phone is now an essential tool in the life of consecrated people (priests and nuns) in Papua New Guinea for communication, evangelization, relationship, comparison, transmission of fai ...
• 29 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Gaudium et Spes and Ad Gentes: Year of the Faith-formation course of the diocese of Wen Zhou, destined especially for the laity Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitution Gaudium et Spes and the Decree Ad Gentes, two important documents of the Second Vatican Council, were the subject of the second formation course of the Year of Faith of the dioc ...