News

• 26 January 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - 2013 State budget: social spending increases but those for the defense are still remain very high Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The state budget in 2013 in Angola, approved by the National Assembly on January 15, is 6.6 trillion kwanza (about 69 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 50% compared to 2012. The Government ha ...
• 26 January 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Civil society: peace with the Kachin is the urgent need for the country Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The real urgency for the country is peace", say civil society groups in Burma, that have collected and re-launched a widespread appeal by the organization "Birmania Democratic Concern" (BDC). Th ...
• 26 January 2013
  VATICAN - The Church for leprosy patients: 547 leprosy centers in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Church has a long tradition of service to leprosy patients, often abandoned even by their own families, and has always provided them, in addition to medical and spiritual ass ...
• 26 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai launches a day of action and solidarity for Syrian refugees "without distinction" Beirut (Lebanon) – On Sunday, January 27 in convents, shrines and nearly one thousand parishes of the Maronite Church, funds will be collected for the activities supported by Caritas Lebanon in favor of Syrian refugees ...
• 26 January 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - In Granma the government returns two schools and land to the Catholic Church Bayamo (Agenzia Fides) - Authorities in the province of Granma, in the south-east of Cuba, have returned to the Catholic Church two buildings and land, within the policies of President Raul Castro, who intends to return ...
• 26 January 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "The Franciscan Missionary": for 80 years has been supporting "those who go" and tells the "wonders" that the Lord works through his envoys Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first issue of "The Franciscan Missionary " (IMF) appeared in January 1933, subtitled "Illustrated Monthly Magazine of the Minor Conventual Friars." The proclamation of the faith and the adven ...
• 26 January 2013
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Father Bouwen: the election result opens new perspectives also for Christians Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "If the outcome of the Israeli elections favors an opening to peace, Christians will feel less uncomfortable as citizens of the State of Israel." This is what was said to Fides Agency by Belg ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Day of Volunteering promotes the hospital pastoral care in the Year of Faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Here I am Lord, send me" was the theme of the Day of Volunteering organized by the Commission for the hospital Pastoral Care of the Diocese of Hong Kong, to promote the pastoral care in healt ...
• 25 January 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Joint project for families living in extreme poverty Choluteca (Agenzia Fides) - In southern Honduras there are thousands of families who live in houses made of cardboard or plastic, where the resulting living conditions of the inhabitants are very poor. Thanks to an initi ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA- High tension between the Koreas: religions call for a "change of course" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the atmosphere of high tension between North Korea and South Korea, "the Catholic Church and other religious communities call for a change of course, to ease friction and start a new era of coo ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The M23 asks to review the 2011 elections; "on what basis if it does not have popular consensus?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the points that the M23, the guerrilla movement active in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), has asked to discuss with the government of Kinshasa in the ongoing negotiatio ...
• 25 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Stop the violence that is even in schools" concern of the Church and the CEDH Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Aguascalientes, His Exc. Mgr. José María de la Torre Martín, and the ombudsman, Omar Williams Lopez Ovalle, have launched an appeal to society to stop vio ...
• 25 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - "Day of Martyrs": in 2012, 135 attacks against Christians were registered New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2012, 135 attacks on Christians in India were officially counted, according to a new Report sent to Fides Agency by the "Global Council of Indian Christians" (GCIC), released yeste ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Some Western countries invite their countrymen to leave Benghazi Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) – Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia have urged their citizens to leave Benghazi immediately for fear of imminent terrorist attacks. An attack on oil installations is feared, ...
• 25 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhanna Golta: Egypt cannot become Islamist like Mali Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Egypt? At the moment no one knows. Not even President Morsi. " On the second anniversary of the Revolution of 25 January 2013, while there are reports of new clashes in the streets b ...