News

• 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 ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/MACAO - New paths to help the poor, Caritas Macao celebrates 60 years of service Macao (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for new paths to help the poor" is the theme of the International Conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Macao Caritas held in past days at the Macao Cultural Centre. It was al ...
• 8 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians protest against the government of Gujarat that supports the radical Hindus Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Gujarat raise their aim and openly protest against the government of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the state of Gujarat (western India) and leader of the Hindu nationalist ...
• 8 February 2012
  EUROPE - A conference on Christian minorities: the first commitment of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first public initiative of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" will be a conference dedicated to the status and the protection of Christian minorities in the world which has just been in ...
• 8 February 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Presidency and Parliament in a crisis of legitimacy following the election irregularities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The institutions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are likely to be faced with a crisis of legitimacy as a result of disputes concerning both the presidential (won by outgoing Presiden ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 300 participants at the National Missionary Congress Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The third National Missionary Congress for priests, religious and laity has just concluded, which had the theme "Authentic witnesses and heralds of Christ in communion, so that the world may believ ...
• 8 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truce and change of mindset for Pope's visit Leon (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for a truce made by the Archbishop of Leon to groups of drug traffickers has been accepted. One group, which is assumed to belong to organized crime, has left in plain view 11 blankets i ...
• 7 February 2012
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 20, 2011 appointed Rev. John Bosco Byeon Seungsik as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
• 7 February 2012
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 3, 2011 appointed Rev. John Addae-Boateng, of the diocesan clergy of Sunyani as National ...
• 7 February 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 1,000 Catholic children from East Timorese "stolen" and Islamized Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand Catholic children from East Timor, taken away from their families over ten years ago, are being held by force in Indonesia, converted to Islam, educated in Islamic colleges and nation ...
• 7 February 2012
  ASIA/MALDIVES - "The Maldives should look at the Arab spring: more democracy and religious freedom" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inhabitants of the Maldives should be inspired by the movements of the Arab Spring and move towards a secular system, which protects human rights and religious freedom": this is what John ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "The FARC are not a political group, but a gang of terrorists" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the Archbishop of Bogota, Mgr. Ruben Salazar Gomez, at the annual Assembly of the Bishops of the country declared that "the FARC (Revolution ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara commit suicide because of despair, because they have nothing to eat Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Deaths caused by starvation registered among the Tarahumara population, who reside in the current Mexican territory of Chihuahua and other places in the country, where 28 million Mexicans su ...