News

• 6 September 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The campaign to recruit new military has been launched: is this what is really needed to end the war in Kivu? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese army has launched a campaign to recruit new troops, officially not related to the war in North Kivu, where one must deal with the rebel movement M23, consisting largely of deserte ...
• 6 September 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "With faith in communion we participate in the Mission": meeting of the Missionary Union of the Sick Tampico (Agenzia Fides) - From 13 to 16 September 2012, the Mexican Diocese of Tampico will host the XVI National Meeting of the UEM (Union Enfermos Misionarios). According to the statement sent to Fides Agency, the main ...
• 6 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Mine in Marikana: an agreement for peace has been reached, but it is not signed by all Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Three miners' unions, the company Lomnine that operates the platinum mine in Marikana (the scene of the massacre on 16 August when the police caused the deaths of 34 protesters) and the Sou ...
• 6 September 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Literacy as a guarantee of peace; 64% of the illiterate are women and girls Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Literacy and Peace" is the theme of this year's Literacy Day that will highlight the link between unstable democratic systems, conflict and lack of education. In this regard, the work do ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith, testimony and evangelization: the program of the diocese of Xian Xian for the Year of Faith Cang Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Faith, testimony and evangelization are the three key points of the program of the diocese of Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou), in the province of He Bei province, mainland China for the Year of Fa ...
• 5 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "To remain calm, be honest, be brave": Mgr. Pérez to journalists La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice-President of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, His Exc. Mgr. Jesús Pérez, Bishop of Sucre, asked the journalists and media executives to be strong and to face the difficult times t ...
• 5 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - More than half of African children are "non-existent" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – They are born, live, die, but do not appear to have ever lived: more than half of African children are still not registered in the list at the time of birth and thus are devoid of any rig ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Pakistani Christian at the Paralympics: good sign for minorities London (Agenzia Fides) – He is 25 years old from Karachi and is the only Pakistani Christian who is part of the team sent from Islamabad to the London Paralympics: Naeem Masih wanted to play cricket but, having lost h ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Forced conversions of Christians in Lahore? An invented case (Agenzia Fides) - Some members of the Christian community in the Walton Road area, in Lahore, have complained to the police a "campaign of forced conversion to Islam" by some local Muslims. The community has received sup ...
• 5 September 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - New strategies and new technologies for missionary animation in the countries of the Andean region Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - From August 27 to September 1, the III Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Andean region countries was held in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The objective of this meeting was to p ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Human rights and violence: the refugees in India prefer not to return home Tamil Nadu (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the end of the civil war that devastated Sri Lanka from 1983to 2009, most of the refugees in India are reluctant to returning home because of financial difficulties and for ...
• 5 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The President of Mali has asked for the intervention of ECOWAS troops to reconquer the north and protect the institutions Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – The ad interim President of Mali, Dioncounda Traoré, has officially requested ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States, also known by the English acronym of ECOWAS) to send troops to ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Assault on a human rights activist in Mindanao: his 11-year-old son killed Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The objective of the attack was him, Timuay Locencio Manda, tribal leader of the community Subanen, an activist for human rights, but yesterday, September 4, when the gunmen shot him at 7 ...
• 5 September 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Pan-African Congress of Catholic laity: "Being witnesses of Jesus Christ in Africa Today" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-African Congress of Catholic laity, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity brgan yesterday, September 4, in Cameroon, under the theme: " Being witnesses of Jesus Christ in Af ...
• 4 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The preparatory Seminary of the Archdiocese of Xi An begins the school year with 17 new seminarians Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - The preparatory Seminary of the Archdiocese of Xi An in the province of Shaan Xi welcomed 17new seminarians in the opening of the new school year, celebrated on September 2 in the presence of His ...