News

• 27 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Peace in Syria": the popular movement for reconciliation "Mussalaha" grows Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - New meetings and new initiatives for the inter-religious popular movement "Mussalaha" ("Reconciliation"), which proposes a "reconciliation from below" starting from families, clans, the differ ...
• 27 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Controversy for the publication of a UN report on the support of Rwanda to the Congolese guerrilla Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The UN Security Council decided on June 26 to publish a controversial document in which it denounced the Minister of Defence of Rwanda and several Rwandans senior officers as supporters of the ...
• 27 June 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Jesuits at a Conference on Social apostolate, after 50 years of independence in Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits from over 15 African countries gathered from June 24 to 28 in Nairobi, Kenya, for a seminar on "the Jesuit Social Apostolate in Africa to test the budget of independence: the role of ...
• 27 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Support on behalf of the U.S. Bishops to the pastoral care in Latin America, primarily in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the United States of America (USCCB) has announced the delivery of aid to the Church in Latin America for a total value of $ 5 million. 121 projects of various pas ...
• 27 June 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Drinking water and sanitation: rural areas are more scarce and more prone to diseases Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In Ethiopia just over half the population, a total of 83 million inhabitants, can now benefit from clean water and sanitation. According to experts of the World Bank's Ethiopia, although the ...
• 26 June 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ketapang and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on June 25, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Ketapang (Indonesia), by His Exc. Mgr. Blasius Pujaraharja, in accordan ...
• 26 June 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Illiteracy rate favors poverty in rural areas Lubango (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent study by the Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA) Antena/Huila, NGOs and voluntary associations that offers aid in case of disasters, calamities and wars and at the ...
• 26 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Hope and caution on behalf of the Bishops after the Supreme Court ruling on immigration Washington (Agenzia Fides) - A step towards a human reform of immigration, but to be considered with caution, because there is still a fair immigration system lacking: is the meaning of the note published by the Episcopa ...
• 26 June 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Victims and people missing due to heavy rainfall recorded in the last days Chaghcharan (Agenzia Fides) - More than a hundred homes and as many acres of farmland and farm animals have been destroyed following the heavy rains that have taken place continuously for 5 days in the northern part of A ...
• 26 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Let's stop terrorism now because a dangerous level of tension has been reached" warn the Bishops Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a primary task of the government to guarantee the safety of life and property of citizens across the nation. There is no excuse not to fulfill this primary duty." It is the warning launched ...
• 26 June 2012
  VATICAN - Mgr.Rugambwa appointed as Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI accepted the resignation presented, upon having reached the age limit, by His Exc. Mgr. Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, Titular Archbishop of Minturno, as Adjunct Secre ...
• 26 June 2012
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Church: yes to a Commission for truth and reconciliation Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Malaysian Church looks at the establishment of a "Commission for truth and reconciliation" with favor, which examines issues such as corruption and discrimination in the country. As rep ...
• 26 June 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church’s appeal to avoid violence and open dialogue La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the Defensoria del Pueblo have urged the government of Bolivia and the police, whose agents have been asking for a salary increase in the past few days, to speak without t ...
• 26 June 2012
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - More than 5,000 Bibles released by the government for the Christian communities of Borneo Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction on behalf of the Christian communities in the provinces of Sabah, Sarawak and the federal territory of the island of Labuan, part of Malaysia's island: as reported to Fides ...
• 25 June 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "No foreign country can impose its rules on immigration": the complex issue of illegal Haitians Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, said that "no foreign country can come to the Dominican Republic to impose its rules on immigration" and called on l ...