News

• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Trial for Rimsha has concluded: waiting for the verdict Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan is waiting with bated breath for the final verdict in the case of Rimsha Masih, a Christian girl, mentally disabled, accused of blasphemy and released on bail because the evidence aga ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - After the killing of police officers, the government sends the army Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan government has decided to assign the army to the police in the hunt for the gang responsible for the murder of police officers on November 10, in the village of Baragoi in the north o ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cholera outbreak: lack of health facilities and functional water systems Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The rate of the spread of cholera decreases in Guinea and Sierra Leone, whereas Guinea-Bissau in past days 1,500 cases and 9 deaths have been reported. Simão Mendes National Hospital, in the cap ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio Zenari: the unification of the opposition favors a political solution to the conflict Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The unification of various factions of the opposition to the Assad regime may be a "positive sign", provided that this initiative can "better serve the cause of finding a political solution to ...
• 13 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The consecration of new churches, sign of faith and the maturity of the continental community Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the missionary month of October which has just ended, several parishes consecrated their new church, as an eloquent sign of faith, evangelization and also the maturity of the Catholic ...
• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholics and New Media: New opportunities to evangelize the digital continent Washington (Agenzia Fides) - 62 percent of adult U.S. Catholics, representing an estimated 36.2 million people, have a profile on Facebook; 58 percent of Catholics age of 30 and under share content such as pictures, art ...
• 13 November 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assembly of Bishops of North Africa in Mazara del Vallo: Churches around the Mediterranean called upon to collaborate on Migration and New Evangelization Mazara del Vallo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, as from next Sunday, November 18, the Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa will celebrate a session of its General Assembly in Sicily, guests ...
• 13 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Health Emergency: cases of plague in Homs Homs (Agenzia Fides) - The health situation in Homs is at high risk: there have been cases of infections and bubonic plague. This is the alarm launched by a group of 20 Christian civilians living near the convent of the ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 130,000 families at the centre of severe famine in the province of Tete Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 000 families are experiencing severe famine in the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique. The local radio station Radio Mozambique reported that the situation is particularly ...
• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Girls bought for 10 euro, the complaint of a missionary Sao Gabriel (Agenzia Fides) - There are already 12 complaints which were submitted last month to the authorities of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the Brazilian town on the border with Colombia, from as many girls who put ...
• 13 November 2012
  VATICAN - The African roads, privileged place of evangelization and education Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – To develop new forms of evangelization suitable for the context of the road/street, especially through the use of social communications and media media; make theology more concrete toward ...
• 13 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - The killing of 42 policemen highlights the spread of weapons and causes concern for the next election Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 42 policemen killed, is the latest toll of the massacre that took place on November 10 in the town of Baragoi, in northern Kenya, where for some time the looting of animals among groups of Sambu ...
• 13 November 2012
  AMERICA/PERU- Forced labor for 200 000 children in the region of Puno Puno (Agenzia Fides) - According to the complaints of the Regional Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour of the Regional Directorate of Labour of Puno, in Peru, 200,000 children are forced to work ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A new home for street children Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - In Luanda, Angola, there are many children who sleep in the streets, in deserted houses or in parks, inhale gasoline to try to cope with hunger and to give themselves courage to survive on the st ...
• 12 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - An Orthodox Archbishop: conflict and refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border, between fear and uncertainty Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great fear among families of different communities for their future. People are so afraid of a real war that could break out at any time between Turkey and Syria. We do not know what ...