News

• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA - One million children risk dying of hunger in the Sahel region Timbuktu (Agenzia Fides) - The international organization Action contre la Faim (ACF) has launched an alarm about the danger more than 10 million people run, and especially one million children, who are running out of fo ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The two priests kidnapped on January 15 have been freed without ransom Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The two priests kidnapped in Sudan on 15 January are free. This is confirmed to Fides by sources of the Archbishopric of Khartoum: "The two priests were released yesterday, January 30, around 4 ...
• 31 January 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Course for new missionaries, to illustrate the reality of the nation and the Church's commitment La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Missions of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference has promoted the organization of a course for new missionaries arriving in the country, to be held from March 12 to 17 at the ...
• 31 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From the Church "a certain hope" for the Filipino people: the Bishops’ message Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church brings hope, which is the Gospel of Christ, in a country plagued by social, political, economic problems: this is what His Exc. Mgr. Jose Palma, Archbishop of Cebu and the new Presiden ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After the tropical storms, the situation continues to worsen Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100 000 people have been affected by the tropical storms Funso and Dando, that have hit respectively the north and south of Mozambique, according to wusnyo, communicated by the Office f ...
• 31 January 2012
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ruhengeri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 31, 2012 appointed Rev. Vincent Harolimana, until now Rector of the Minor Seminary St. Pius X in the diocese of Nyundo as Bishop of Ruhengeri (Rwanda ...
• 30 January 2012
  "That the Lord may sustain the efforts of health workers assisting the sick and the elderly in the world’s poorest regions" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for February 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I was ill and you cared for me" (Matthew 25:36). These words of the Lord led the believers to have a special sensitivity for those suffering from disease or old age, recognizing in them th ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-A haven for African children accused of witchcraft Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian NGO Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), welcomed over 160 children labeled as "witches". Dozens of children suffer abuses, are abandoned and even killed by their familie ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary professed their vows Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of 135 years of its foundation of the religious congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), the first 13 tertiaries of Hong Kong (men, women a ...
• 30 January 2012
  VATICAN - Poverty and social exclusion, the real causes of the persistence of leprosy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, January 29, World Leprosy Day, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled during the Angelus the annual anniversary with these words: "On greeting the 'Italian Association friends o ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Regional elections in northern India: Hindu nationalists provocative poster New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming elections for the renewal of the local Parliament in Uttar Pradesh (state in northern India), which will begin on February 4, the Hindu nationalist "Bharatiya Janata Pa ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Good relations with the government, but more attention to the weakest," write the Bishops Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Zambia are opposed to forced repatriation of Rwandese refugees who live in the Country and condemn cases of abuse against children. This is shown by a articulated pastoral Letter, ...
• 30 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Schools targeted by radical Muslims in Kashmir Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools are being targeted by Islamic extremists in Kashmir, accused of "proselytism". After the expulsion order against two Protestant and one Catholic missionaries (Pastors C.M. Kh ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The cost of food increases, 250 000 people continue to suffer from hunger Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After a pause of several months, clashes and feuds have broken out again in Somalia between clans and between 16 and 19 January, eight people died. In the country as well as the lack of securi ...
• 30 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Between kidnappings and massacres tension between Sudan and Southern Sudan increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There is a growing tension in the border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, while the governments in Khartoum and Juba are throwing accusations of supporting the rebels operating in their ter ...