News

• 9 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - For the Year of Faith, the Bishops launch an evangelization project with music Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – It is called "Kalam ke Geet", which in Urdu means "Songs of the Word of God": it is a new CD with liturgical and some non-liturgical music, produced by the studio "Wave", which acts under the a ...
• 9 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Agreement of cooperation between Church and State to promote religious assistance in prisons and social reintegration of detainees Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference (CEP) and the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (INPE) signed an agreement renewing the cooperation ties between the two institutions. ...
• 9 March 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Child slavery in the world continues to increase: 800 000 children exploited in illegal labor Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eight hundred thousand children around the world work for days, undergoing all kinds of risks and unbearable hardships for their young age. According to the Camino Juvenil Solidario in Madrid, howe ...
• 9 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - At the Guadalajara Film Festival a documentary about the harsh reality of a "journey of hope" of Central American migrants Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Illegal immigrants in the United States in a few years will found the political and social system of that country: this was said by the Mexican priest Alejandro Solalinde who presented in Gu ...
• 9 March 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Alarm on behalf of Caritas Somalia: a new wave of drought in the Horn of Africa and a large influx of displaced persons from Afgoye Corridor are feared Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - According to climate scientists, there is a high probability of drought returning to the Horn of Africa. This is what the eighth Situational Report of Caritas Somalia says, sent to Fides. The ...
• 9 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "It is no coincidence that the hostages were held in Sokoto, local Sultan's headquarters", says the Archbishop of Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I am really sorry for the death of the two hostages. But from what I read, it would have been a miracle to bring special forces in the hideout and rescue the hostages" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 9 March 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - Local officials to Christians: "abjure your faith" Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - Local government officials, with threats and intimidation, want to force groups of Lao Christians to abjure their faith. This is "plain violation of the Constitution of Laos, which guarant ...
• 9 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Italian Militaries in Kerala: "The Church has confidence in the Court, so that the truth emerges" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church has full confidence in the Upper Court of Kerala, called to settle the controversy concerning the two Italian soldiers, currently under arrest in Trivandrum (in Kerala). The ...
• 8 March 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG-The newly appointed Cardinal John Tong appeals for greater pastoral attention towards the non-Chinese immigrant workers Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Evangelization, the promotion of vocations of priests and men and women religious, the treatment of non-Chinese Catholics of the diocese and the Church in China: are the four basic pastora ...
• 8 March 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA-Immediate suspension of the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Project, the first agreement between the parties Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Panama and indigenous leaders belonging to the ethnic group Ngäbe Bugle have agreed to a temporary suspension of the controversial hydroelectric project Barro Blanco (see ...
• 8 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Pakistani nun: "The education of women, priority to change the nation" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Working in the field of education, particularly the education of women, is the main way to change the mentality and culture of the country. It is needed to train people with a new approach, base ...
• 8 March 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A radio and a TV online gives voice to children and present missionary activity Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni missionaries in Colombia will put a radio online and a virtual television from March 15 to "present to the world the Church's missionary activity" and "sensitize the people on the mis ...
• 8 March 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope encourages Pastors and faithful of the Middle East "not to lose hope, even in hardship" that beset them Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of the general audience Wednesday, March 7, the Holy Father Benedict XVI greeted the Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholics and the Bishops attending the Synod of the A ...
• 8 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protestant Pastor stabbed by Islamic extremists, saved by a miracle Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Evangelical Christian Pastor John Pervaiz was attacked and stabbed by a group of Islamic extremists who wanted to kill him. The attack took place in past days, for reasons entirely unknown ...
• 8 March 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Limiting the rights of women: the government agrees with the Ulema Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai has given public support for a "code of conduct" that limits women's rights, issued by the influential Council of the Ulema, an Islamic body that br ...