News

• 17 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan philosophical Seminary "St. Francis Xavier " in the Archdiocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 9, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Azif John of the clergy of the same archdiocese as Rector of the ...
• 17 December 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The phenomenon of child labor spreads: in the streets, factories, fields Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor continues to spread through the streets of Quito despite the will to eradicate it in the country. In the capital of Ecuador one see youngsellers of all kinds of merch ...
• 17 December 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Family and the Year of Faith at the centre of the 40th mission in Argentina Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Conclusion of the 12-day pastoral mission of 33 missionaries of the Church of Paraguay addressed to their countrymen who emigrated to the Argentine territory. Led by His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Sil ...
• 17 December 2012
  ASIA/IRAQ - Bombs in Kirkuk during Cardinal Sandri’s Mass Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorist attacks struck yesterday, Sunday, December 16, the city of Kirkuk, causing nine deaths (including 2 children) and more than fifty injuries. Two coordinated attacks – carried out with ...
• 17 December 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 914,000 internally displaced people, 600 schools in North Kivu destroyed, while tension continues Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 600 schools have been destroyed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, due to the instability for the presence of various armed movements that in addition to fighting each other, te ...
• 17 December 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Libyan authorities decree the south "military zone" and close the borders with four States Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Libyan General National Congress (parliament) decreed the south of the Country "closed military zone" and announced the temporary closure of the border with Algeria, Chad, Sudan and Niger, i ...
• 17 December 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Dramatic situation of malnourished children and mothers without medical assistance Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The number of children suffering from acute malnutrition in Nepal has reached emergency levels, and the situation has remained unchanged despite 15 years of commitment, effort and investment. ...
• 15 December 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church: "Vote the people closest to the problems of the population" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The upcoming elections are "really important because we are going to elect the people who are closest to the problems of the population and have in their hands the solution to these problems." T ...
• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Contraception is Corruption": Bishops’ Letter for the Christmas Novena Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Contraception corrupts the young" and is "the mother of abortion" says a pastoral Letter released by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, to offer the faithful a "compass" in the ...
• 15 December 2012
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "The attack on life harms development and peace," says the Apostolic Nuncio San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Every attack on life, especially in the beginning, inevitably causes irreparable damage to development, peace and the environment. False rights or freedoms, based on a narrow vision of the hu ...
• 15 December 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Centenary of the Evangelization of Koudougou: an extraordinary opportunity to become more aware of the missionary mandate Koudougou (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time 100 years ago, in 1912, the Good News arrived in the region including the present diocese of Koudougou, in Burkina Faso, starting from the town of Réo, in the province of S ...
• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Radical Buddhists attack the churches: Christians call for religious freedom Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Bewilderment in the Christian communities in Sri Lanka after the recent incidents of violence perpetrated by monks and lay radical Buddhists: as reported to Fides, Christians renew the governm ...
• 15 December 2012
  ASIA/IRAQ - Archbishop Sako says Premier al-Maliki is right: the West must not finance the flight of Christians Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The countries of Europe and the West "should help Iraqi Christians to remain in their homeland rather than investing resources in assistance programs that actually encourage their escape." The Ch ...
• 15 December 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in the diocese of Gulu: learn to "be with Him" in order to be his missionaries Arua (Agenzia Fides) - "What kind of priest do I want to be? A priest who testifies to Christ, because he believes, loves, and he shows it in his action and life? " Are some questions that Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefe ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Russian-American joint ultimatum to Assad? We urgently need a "political solution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Russia and the United States are getting ready to order a joint ultimatum to President Bashar Assad through the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi, in order for him to ...