News

• 9 February 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Church of Taiwan is preparing for the International Eucharistic Congress Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The National Eucharistic Congress, a special site has been created, full of pages dedicated to the theme, the publication of books and teaching aid on the Eucharist, awareness of the faithful, t ...
• 9 February 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Year of Faith, the year of the missionaries who proclaim it Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "A year dedicated to faith is a year for those who preach it. Because faith, as St. Paul taught, comes from hearing, preaching. This is why a preacher is necessary and can educate in this faith t ...
• 9 February 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Muslim Study Centre: "To save the churches from radical Islamic groups is possible" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To save the Christian churches in Indonesia from the influence and attacks on behalf of radical Islamic groups is necessary and possible, according to a new Report published by the "Paramadina ...
• 9 February 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Winds of war between Sudan and South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "In Khartoum, the population follows through the media the war of words between the Government of Sudan and Southern Sudan. For the moment, the situation is calm, but it is unknown whether the ...
• 9 February 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic Fundamentalists re-launch the new anti-blasphemy "Facebook" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic fundamentalist groups in Pakistan have launched a campaign to promote a social network "conformed to Islam", and inviting all the "true Muslims in the country to abandon and boycott th ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Police in Bahia still on strike while crime rages, now the Church mediates Sao Salvador da Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The police continue the strike and the people of Bahia, state in northeastern Brazil, live in anguish. In just six days there have been 87 murders, the result of criminal acts, and ...
• 9 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Cholera runs along the river Congo: alert Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cholera continues to claim victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), especially in the provinces bordering the Congo River, which is therefore both an important trading route and a car ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - 25 years later, a blog remembers Mgr. Alejandro Labaka and Sister Ines Arango Aguarico (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, the Capuchin Bishop Mgr. Alejandro Labaka, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico and Sister Ines Arango, of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, both missionaries in the Am ...
• 9 February 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Lacunza intermediary between government and indigenous protesters to avoid other deaths Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Luis Lacunza, OAR, Bishop of the Diocese of David, has succeeded in his mission as mediator between the government and the ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Bishops: elections crucial to the future of the Country " Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The presidential elections whose first round is fixed for Sunday, February 26, will be decisive for the future of the country", say the Bishops of Senegal in the message dedicated to the presiden ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/TOGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 25 April 2010, confirmed Rev. Benoit Efoevi Penoukou of the archdiocesan clergy of Lomé the office as National Directo ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 3, 2011 appointed Rev. Faustine Lucas Lobo, of the diocesan clergy of Mangalore as national Director of the Pontif ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The rate of acute childhood malnutrition among IDPs in Mogadishu exceeds 20%. Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The mortality rate among displaced children in the Somali capital Mogadishu remains above the threshold of hunger, despite the recent announcement by the United Nations on the end of famine in ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A lay missionary dies to save seven children Quinindé (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, February 5, Pedro Manuel died, aged 43, after saving the lives of seven children who had been dragged off into the sea, in front of a beach near the small town of Quinindé, in Ecua ...
• 8 February 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's Message published for Lent Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity". This is how the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Message for Lent begins, whose ...