News

• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Chaldean Bishop: Aleppo among insecurity, poverty and solidarity Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Aleppo the population is completely worn out because for three months insecurity, unemployment, poverty has reigned, and schools are closed and in hospitals doctors and medicines are lacking. ...
• 10 October 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition continues to increase, the country risks another famine crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the low rainfall falls below the seasonal average in Somalia, damaging the so-called 'crop Gu' and the dramatic increase of food price, the level of malnutrition in the country has ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Human trafficking: 8 out of 10 victims are minors, a crime to fight Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The Observatory on Crime of the Public Prosecutor reported that in Peru there were 1.112 reported cases of human trafficking from January 2008 to July 2012, and thus is considered as the second mos ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "People have great human qualities, despite the conflicts and extreme poverty" testimony of the Auxiliary of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of priests and the lack of economic self-sufficiency are the realities that characterize the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni, in Bolivia. "I have been here for seven years, first as a p ...
• 10 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Negotiation or war? The debate rages on how to resolve the crisis in the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In Mali there is a heated debate among the supporters of dialogue and those who are pushing for a military solution to the crisis in the north," is what Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the E ...
• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taliban attack in Swat: Bishop defends "the right to life and education" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Every person has a sacred right to life and education": so says His Exc Mgr. Rufin Anthony, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi to Fides, the diocese which includes the Swat valley (province of Kh ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victims and wounded in clashes between police and the indigenous Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHAR) has launched a warning for the murder of six indigenous people in Guatemala, following the clashes between the communities o ...
• 9 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The new church is not a monument, but a call to evangelization and the life of faith Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "The new church is not a monument to show to the public, but is a reminder of evangelization and the life of faith, especially in view of the Year of Faith": is the appeal launched by His Exc. ...
• 9 October 2012
  VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: in South Vietnam children also pray for the Council Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From news released by Fides Agency on 22 September 1962: "The Ecumenical Council does not leave indifferent Catholics in Vietnam, and the Catholic weekly 'Song Dao' has spared no efforts to ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country needs to change, do not choose the corrupt" urges Cardinal Maradiaga Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has invited Hondurans to vote the citizens who have the necessary skills to run the government in the coming elections,. ...
• 9 October 2012
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Education for women, to allow the whole society to grow: the commitment of the JRS Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Educating women means to advance the whole society of Burundi, one of the poorest Countries in Africa. This is why the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is investing in educational projects aimed ...
• 9 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III, "May the Year of Faith be the Year of Reconciliation" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "May the Year of Faith be for Syria the Year of reconciliation: is the hope of Christians and all the Syrian people": is what the Melkite Patriarch of Damascus, Gregory III Laham, now in th ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of recovery while the population is still in crisis: schools reopened Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have gone by since the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed 90% of schools and 60% of hospitals, killing thousands of people, leaving more than 350 000 injured and causing more ...
• 9 October 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land: how to live the Year of Faith in these difficult days Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - With a pastoral Letter which has just been published, the Assembly of Bishops of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land offers its contribution to the itinerary that the universal Church is ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Avoid violence and resort to dialogue": Mgr. Gualberti intervenes in the miners’ conflict Colquiri (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad when reading the newspaper this morning that some of our brothers in Colquiri, who live in the same city and who are also relatives of the miners, clashed on Saturday, October 6, causi ...