News

• 5 November 2012
  AFRICA - "Silent Emergency": each year over a million children die from malnutrition Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The lack of food continues to cause deaths every year, over a million children under 5 years of age in Sub-Saharan Africa. Deaths due to malnutrition in this region are exacerbated by drought an ...
• 5 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Attack during a church service within the police station: for the Coadjutor Bishop of Garissa: "It is a political act, not a religious one" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The attack which took place yesterday, November 4, was aimed at the Sunday celebration of the Christian interfaith community Utawala in Garissa in eastern Kenya, 140 km from the border with Soma ...
• 5 November 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Malnutrition, poverty and drought for thousands of women, children, indigenous and rural population Antigua (Agenzia Fides) - A medical team will travel to Basque Retalhuleu, 200 km from the capital of Guatemala, on November 15 to carry out more than 150 surgeries over the course of two weeks. For more than 10 years, t ...
• 5 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Violence in Nigeria: not only Boko Haram but also banditry Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The indictment of a corporal of the police in Zamfara State (Northern Nigeria) for theft of weapons has shed light on a series of attacks in some villages in the area, previously attributed to Isl ...
• 5 November 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church of Bombay remains cautious on the crucifix dripping with blood Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church has never claimed that the phenomenon of droplets of blood or water found on the crucifix in Irla is a miracle. In these cases, the Church is always prudent. Every special ev ...
• 5 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Catholics welcome with enthusiasm the election of the new Coptic Orthodox Pope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The election of the new Patriarch Tawadros II as head of the Coptic Orthodox Church arouses reactions of joy and enthusiasm in the composite Catholic community in Egypt. "We are all delighted," co ...
• 31 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Diocese of Kao Hsiung entrusts 8 couples the mandate for the Evangelization of families Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) – With the appointment and the missionary mandate assigned to 8 couples of lay faithful of the Diocesan Commission for the Evangelization of the Family, the Diocese of Kao Hsiung in Taiwan wi ...
• 31 October 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - At the cemetery via the web: Filipino migrants for a "virtual visit" to the dead Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A "virtual tour" via the web at the cemetery, with prayers for their dead, listening to a meditation, a chance to leave an offering: is an initiative launched by the Office of Social Communicatio ...
• 31 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church invites children to recover the value of mast'aku Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the commemoration of the dead, the Catholic Church in Bolivia has invited boys and girls to take part in the traditional mast'aku (ancestral Andean icon tribute to the dead ...
• 31 October 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazil launches the VIII Mutirão of Communication, which one can follow on the web Natal (Agenzia Fides) – With the conference "Communication and citizen participation: means and processes," presented by Father Ermanno Allegri of the Adital Agency, in Fortaleza (CE), the VIII Brazilian Mutirão of co ...
• 31 October 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Close stories to be listened far away": contest to promote radio stations Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The World Association of Community Radio in Latin America and the Caribbean (AMARC ALC), the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) and the Cultural Association Bostezo, have invited ...
• 31 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - About 2,300 children and young people missing since 2010 continue to still be absent at the roll-call Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - In Guatemala, at least 2,300 children and adolescents of the 4955 recorded as missing in the last 21 months, are still absent at the roll-call despite multiple reports. This is what emerg ...
• 31 October 2012
  AFRICA/CHAD - Catholic students ask the authorities to reconsider Mgr. Russo's expulsion N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Catholic Students of Chad (Jeunesse étudiante catholique - JEC) has asked the government of N'Djamena to reconsider the expulsion from the Country of His Exc. Mgr. Michael ...
• 31 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The last remaining Christian in the center of Homs killed; the convent of the Jesuits has been hit Homs (Agenzia Fides) - The last Christian who was in the center of Homs was killed, after the evacuation of the civilian population. Elias Mansour, 84 years old, Greek-Orthodox Christian, did not want to leave his home, ...
• 31 October 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Kenyan court acquits a missionary of murder Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Father Gerardo Bottarelli, a Passionist missionary, was acquitted of murder by a court in Migori. The missionary was charged in connection with the death of a citizen of Kenya, Polycarp Otieno, ...