News

• 25 October 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A dispensary and a center for the disabled have been inaugurated, a light of hope for the people of Madagascar Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Two works at the service of the weakest representing hope for a better future for the people of Madagascar. This is the dispensary St. Luigi Orione in Miandrarivo and the House of Charity f ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Pregnant woman and two children massacred by the army in Mindanao Columbium (Agenzia Fides) - A tribal family was massacred by the soldiers of the Philippine Army in the Columbio area (province of Sultan Kundarat), on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. As confirmed by ...
• 25 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "It is not with repression that problems are solved": the call of Bishop Ramazzini Totonicapán (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, Bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango, publicly called for the government to meet the needs of the population of Totonicapán through dialogue and n ...
• 25 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - New website guides the faithful Peruvians in the Year of Faith Lima (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate the start of the Year of Faith, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference offers the faithful a website dedicated entirely to the Year of Faith. This new virtual space has a range of informati ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The new Indian Cardinal comes from a Church "that does a lot for Evangelization" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Joy, congratulations, hope, are expressed by the Indian Cardinals for the appointment of His Beatitude Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars (Ind ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus found dead Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The body of the Greek-Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias in Qatana, was found today in the Jaramana neighborhood (north of Damascus) not far from the place ...
• 25 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Cardinal Filoni reaffirms the validity of Pope Benedict XVI’s Letter to the Chinese Catholics and the internal path to the Church in China in fidelity to the Pope, hoping for a stable Commission of the People's Republic and the Holy See Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Letter addressed by the Pope to the Chinese Catholics in 2007 "remains valid" also to favour a restart of dialogue between the Holy See and the Government of Beijing. A dialogue that should be ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - One woman out of 89 and 500 children die every day from diseases related to pregnancy Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, one woman out of 89 dies every day from diseases associated with pregnancy, over 500 babies die due to lack of adequate maternal and neonatal health care (MNH), particularly in the ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Marriage tradition of indigenous comunities and Catholic theology: Pastoral Congress in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Marriage tradition and the Catholic pastoral" is the theme of the 7th Pastoral Congress of indigenous peoples of Taiwan to be held from November 7 to 9. The invitation to participate, addressed ...
• 24 October 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A TV for Egyptian Catholics: "a tool to show everyone the wealth of the Catholic gaze" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Its name will be "Salam", which in Arabic means "peace." It will see the light of day within 2013, but the planning phase has already begun. It will be the first Egyptian Catholic television netwo ...
• 24 October 2012
  AMERICA - 600 million children are victims of violence, forced to marry to survive Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 600 million adolescent girls living in developing countries, many continue to be invisible to the structures and national programs. Millions of them live in poverty, victims of gender disc ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic bishops of the Holy Land: no Vatican ok to the separation wall in the Cremisan valley Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land strongly condemns the project of the separation wall that the Israeli authorities want to build in the Cremisan valley, between Bethlehem a ...
• 24 October 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "We repeat that only dialogue can resolve the conflict" Mgr.Ulloa calls for calm Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, who is participating in the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, sent a message to the people of Panama, fo ...
• 24 October 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "The State has an obligation to manage the resources of all for the good of all": statement from the Diocese of Colon Colon (Agenzia Fides) - As the Archbishop of Panama, Mgr. Ulloa, from Rome, calls for dialogue to solve the problems in the city of Colon, the statement of the Diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala is relaunched, in which the Bish ...
• 24 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - An Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias in Qatana, a suburb of Damascus, was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group. According to information sent t ...