News

• 23 November 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The role of the family and the education of young people for a happy Christian marriage Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "The family and the formation of young people play an important role for the bride and groom who will be living the Christian married life": is the belief of Cardinal John Tong, Bishop of Hong ...
• 23 November 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children want to study Rioverde (Agenzia Fides) - After being integrated into the program "From street to life," the children working at the intersections of major roads in the municipality of Rioverde, dream of finding a good job as soon as p ...
• 23 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Bishops of 34 African Countries "outraged and shocked by the violence in eastern DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are outraged and shocked by the escalating violence which started a few months ago in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and is causing a new human tragedy," said the statement sent to Fi ...
• 23 November 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The first stone of the new church dedicated to San. Pedro and San. Pablo in Ichu was blessed Puno (Agenzia Fides) - On November 21 the "first stone" of a new church dedicated to San Pedro and San Pablo in Ichu, a town located 15 km south of the city of Puno (Peru) was blessed. A source of Fides reports that moth ...
• 23 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Firmness and dialogue with the sympathizers to stop Boko Haram," said Cardinal-elect Onaiyekan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Abuja is the new capital of Nigeria, where all faiths and ethnic groups in the country are represented. In this sense it is a training ground for dialogue, said Cardinal-elect Mgr. John Olorunfemi ...
• 23 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians in high Mesopotamia refuse to take up arms. Bishops' appeal to the Pope and the leaders of Nations: avoid the catastrophe that is upon us Kamishly (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal to the Pope, the UN Secretary General and the Heads of State so that catastrophe that threatens Syrian populations of high Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and the Euphrates is ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - In the Year of Faith, mission among the last: a new hospital for lepers Thai Binh (Agenzia Fides) – Already the name is indicative of the radical change of paradigm: from leprosy hospital to "dermatological hospital." This is the work that has started in Thai Binh, a village 250 km north o ...
• 22 November 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, on 27 September 2012 appointed Rev.do Dante Mario De Sanzzi, of the diocesan clergy of San Justo ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Roham’s appeal to the belligerents: "Save the cities of Kamishly and Hassaké" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of innocent civilians and displaced families, including women, old people, children, have taken refuge in the city of Kamishly and Hassaké (eastern Syria), who must absolutely be "pr ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Living faith is the best way to spread it: the deanery of Cang Nan in the Diocese of Wen Zhou opens the Year of Faith Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Living faith is the best way to spread it: with this belief the participants at the Annual Assembly of the Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs of the deanery of Cang Nan of the Diocese of Wen Zh ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Church desecrated by bandits, then furnish returned and ceremony of reconciliation Homs (Agenzia Fides) - An act of vandalism, then the apology and reconciliation. This happened in Qara, in the diocese of Homs (Western Syria), where on November 19 the ancient church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, of th ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Calm situation, but developments are unpredictable; in any case the missionaries remain close to the population Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Today in Bukavu, the situation is calm after yesterday where demonstrations and looting by the people were carried out after they had spread the news of the advance of the rebels of the M23 fr ...
• 22 November 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Challenges to the family in the national reality: a Bishops' letter is being prepared San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) – On November 21, the annual Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) ended, during which various issues, including the pastoral, political situation and social development of ...
• 22 November 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous Peoples: "no longer the object of our love, but the protagonists of their own history" Luziania (Agenzia Fides) - "The identity of Cimi is the alliance with indigenous peoples, so that they do not lose their identity": said the President of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Bishop of the Prelat ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA - "The region is going through a complex and painful transition," say the Bishops of North Africa Mazara del Vallo (Agenzia Fides) - "A more difficult and painful transition than expected a year ago." This is what the Bishops of CERNA (Episcopal Conference of the North Africa Region) say at the end of their Plenary A ...