News

• 4 October 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The marginalized communities march to protest against the exclusion from the development of the country New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - About 35,000 people left yesterday from Gwalior, a city in the center of northern India, to reach New Delhi in a-350-kilometer march. About 100 000 Indians are expected to arrive to protest th ...
• 3 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan for the Year of Faith Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan published a Pastoral Letter for the Year of Faith, signed on September 8, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the document sent to Fides Agency, ...
• 3 October 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rapes and violence against innocent little victims still go unpunished Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A wave of recent cases of rape has sparked local criticism on the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and incompetence provide littl ...
• 3 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Sindh government grants land to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Sindh province (in southern Pakistan) has given to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary land on an extended loan in the center of Karachi for a period of 99 years. During a ceremony h ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "I do not want to go back": every week 200 Honduran children are repatriated El Corinth (Agenzia Fides) - From two border towns of Honduras, Aguas Calientes and El Corinto, where about 200 minors return every week, arrives the testimony of Sister Lydia Mara Silva de Souza, National Coordinator fo ...
• 3 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A Missionary Fair to explain DOMUND Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation for World Mission Day (Domund) which is celebrated this month. In the Archdiocese of Cochabamba the "Missionary Fair ", organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies of this ju ...
• 2 October 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - October 13 - opening of the Year of Faith; "Maria, increase our faith" theme of the 8 December pilgrimage Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith in Guinea-Bissau will officially begin on Saturday, October 13 in Bissau. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Diocesan Secretariat for the Pastoral care of the Dioces ...
• 2 October 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - During the missionary month Chile also lives the "Mission youth" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Chile lives the missionary month of October this year in a particularly intense way for the development of the "Mission youth." "We want to live it by enriching our faith and expressing our hop ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Carmelite Novitiate of Asia returns to Taiwan Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Building a base for the formation of the Carmelite vocation in the Chinese world in Asia and for the linguistic formation of all Carmelites in the world: with this purpose, from January 2013 th ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Laham: "the Islamist demonstration on Friday could get out of hand" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Next Friday, the Muslim Brotherhood has called for a large demonstration against the election. The leaders of the tribes have threatened to take to the streets 200 thousand people, ready to creat ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "Rimsha towards acquittal" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Masih Rimsha’s prosecutors - the Christian girl arrested for blasphemy and then released on bail - are carrying out an "obstructive tactic, with the sole purpose to drag out the case and pre ...
• 2 October 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The vote is a positive way to decide the future of the country, but it must be done consciously" stresses the Archbishop of Mérida Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming presidential elections on October 7, the Archbishop of Mérida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, released a statement that was also sent to Fides Agency. Mg ...
• 2 October 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Even for disabled children an opportunity to receive adequate education Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Madagascar there are about 200 000 children who are excluded from school because they are handicapped. In 2008, the Government had issued a decree with the introduction of a program prov ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Prayer and Fasting to say "No" to anti-Christian violence New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Christian communities, of all denominations, scattered in different states of the Indian Federation, live today, October 2, a special day of community prayer and fasting, to invoke ...
• 2 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Churches’ appeal: "Save the religious, historical and cultural heritage of the country" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the heartfelt and urgent appeal to keep innocent civilians out of the conflict, the Christian churches of Syria launch a new message: "We join our voices to those of internation ...