News

• 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 ...
• 26 January 2012
  ASIA - The Bishops: "To become Church of the poor and marginalized in Asia" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After a "full immersion" in the realities of poverty, vulnerability, marginalization and suffering, the Asian Bishops hope that the Asian Christian communities in Asia become a "Church of the po ...
• 26 January 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - More than 300 000 Dominican children forced to work to survive Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 000 children in the Dominican Republic are forced to work as adults to survive and to be able tonourish themselves. In a recent meeting, the representative of the local Mini ...
• 26 January 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - LRA: A more sophisticated structure than it looks in the light of a new UN report Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains a powder keg for the presence of various armed groups. This is what the latest report says on behalf of UN experts on the Great Lakes regi ...
• 26 January 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 25, 2012 appointed Rev. Paul Abel Mamba, now Apostolic Administrator of the same diocese as Bishop of Ziguinchor (Senegal) Rev. Paul Abel Mamba was born ...
• 25 January 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The Arab revolutions brought Islamic parties to power, which now must not disappoint expectations" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Someone has launched the slogan to begin the second revolution, but I do not think this will happen, even if protests are scheduled because important issues are at stake, such as the role of the ...
• 25 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Hopes for Asia Bibi, but "the extremists would not accept her release" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if her accuser changed his mind and withdrew the false accusations that led to Asia Bibi’s sentence for blasphemy, the Islamic extremists would not accept her release. Asia Bibi, for them ...
• 25 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Discrimination against the Rohingya ethnic group continues: approximately 40 000 children are not registered at the registry office Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 40 000 children belonging to ethnic Rohingya who currently live in Myanmar without being registered at the registry office. This results in limited opportunities for them ...
• 25 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - To evangelize the indigenous through TV: a program on the Christian faith Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The evangelization of the indigenous communities in Taiwan goes through television: as of next February, a program on the Christian faith, promoted by the "Voice of the Catholic Church Associati ...
• 25 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Haitian trafficking, the earthquake survivors, towards Brazil: 254 stops at the border with Peru Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - They are victims of human traffickers who are speculating on the earthquake that struck Haiti two years ago: As Fides learns from the local Church, 254 Haitian immigrants, survivors of the ...
• 25 January 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - RECOWA Assembly: "a sign of the victory of the Resurrected", said Cardinal Sarr Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to execute our project for the future of the Church of Christ in all of Western Africa", said His Exc. Mgr. Cardinal Theodore-Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar, the capital of Se ...
• 24 January 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Aid to orphanages run by Catholics, Muslims and Protestants Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Rosa Mystica orphanage in Kupang, the capital of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, received a large donation by the richest man in Indonesia. The institute is run by the Sisters of the Ble ...
• 24 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG-Week of Christian Unity: pray for the reciprocal change, to walk together towards unity and full communion Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Praying for change and for the mutual transformation of Christians so that they can walk together towards unity and communion: this is the reason that led the celebration of the Week of Prayer ...