News

• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - On Sunday, 29 January prayers will be held in 2500 cities around the world for peace in Holy Land Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The residents of about 2500 cities around the world will pray for peace in the Land of Jesus on Sunday, January 29. On the Fourth International Day of intercession for peace in Holy Land, a prayer ...
• 27 January 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa: every day between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age die Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the famine caused by the severe drought that has hit the area in the past 50 years, between 100 and 200 children under 5 years of age continue to die every day in the Horn of Afri ...
• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Pastor stripped naked, beaten and humiliated by Hindu radicals Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Hindu extremists beat him, stripped him naked, humiliated and ridiculed him in public for hours, tying him to a pole: the Protestant Pastor Chandrakanth Kalappa Chavan (27 years old), who b ...
• 27 January 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - The first indictments for the violence of 2007-2008; appeals for peace on behalf of Christian leaders Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The National Council of the Churches of Kenya (NCCK, which includes most of the non-Catholic Christian denominations in the Country) has called on all Kenyans to accept peacefully the ruling of ...
• 27 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: "The Church contributes to a better India" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of poverty, unemployment, corruption, lack of education, violence, religious fundamentalism, the Catholic Church intends to be a significant voice and make their own contribution ...
• 27 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We need a political solution to stop Boko Haram" says to Fides the Archbishop of Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The problem of Boko Haram cannot be solved only at a security level, but a clear strategy is needed to involve all the political environments in the north of the Country, to cope with the issue," ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation of the Archbishop of Karachi and appointment of Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 25, 2012 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Karachi (Pakistan), by His Exc. Mgr. Evarist Pinto, according to ...
• 26 January 2012
  VATICAN-Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for the World Mission Day 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides publishes Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Mission Day, which this year will be celebrated on Sunday, October 21on the theme "Called to radiate the Word of truth": HOLY FATHE ...
• 26 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas Somalia: more than one million internally displaced people rely on international assistance Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - There are one million 356 thousand internally displaced persons in Somalia, of whom 500,000 live in the so-called Afgoye corridor. This is what the last Situational Report says of which a copy ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Hai Men celebrates 85 years of its foundation and the consecration of its first Bishop Hai Men (Agenzia Fides) - The inauguration of the bronze statue that depicts Mgr. Simon Zhu Kaimin - one of the first Chinese Bishops consecrated by Pope Pius XI in 1926, in St. Peter in the Vatican, who was also the fir ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The house of a Protestant Pastor in Orissa attacked by a Hindu Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A Hindu man attacked, with shouts and death threats, the house of a Protestant Pastor in Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence that occurred in the state of Orissa (easter ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - NGO’s alarm: "Christianophobia also in government" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The secular India suffers from Christianophobia, a disease rooted and well established, but not publicly recognized by the state and society": this is the complaint that comes from Indian civ ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA/YEMEN - Appeal to help 750 000 malnourished Yemeni children Sana (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 750 thousand Yemeni children under five years of age suffer from malnutrition. This is what is learned from a recent press release, sent to Fides, which was released in Sana by the R ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Mission of Christians in public politics": formation course of Diocesan Missionary Councils Maranhão (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, January 28 the 20th edition of missionary formation course that brings together representatives of the Diocesan Missionary Councils (COMIDIS) in Bacabal, in Maranhão ends. The ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón elected President of the Episcopal Conference Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 99th Ordinary Assembly of the Bishops of Peru, elected the Archbishop of Ayacucho and castrensian Bishop of Peru, His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon, as the new President of the Pe ...