News

• 12 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The indigenous people of Taiwan reject electoral fraud, for a a transparent and clean vote Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - For the dignity of the indigenous people, to be the best indigenous in the world and to be loved by God, the indigenous people of Taiwan say 'no' to fraud, to electoral corruption, and claim tra ...
• 12 January 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - "Two years after the earthquake there are still 600 000 people in tents, including seminarians": this is the testimony of the Apostolic Nuncio to Fides Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Exactly two years ago, on January 12, 2010, Haiti was devastated by a terrible earthquake. Fides collected the first, alarming and terrible news, on behalf of the Apostolic Nuncio, His Ex ...
• 12 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao hospitals on alert for an outbreak of leptospirosis Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) - Hospitals in Mindanao are on alert due to cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread by rodents, following tropical storm Washi. According to the local health care authorities, re ...
• 12 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The priorities of Caritas Spain in Haiti: health, education, housing, protection of the most vulnerable and strengthening of Caritas Haiti Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Spain has traced a balance of its work on the Caribbean island - called "Caritas with Haiti" - in favor of hundreds of thousands of people after the earthquake which hit the island 2 year ...
• 12 January 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - More than 100 animators participated in the VI National Meeting of Missionary Childhood San Felipe (Agenzia Fides) - More than a hundred animators and leaders of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, from 17 among dioceses and prelatures around the whole of Chile, gathered from 6 to 8 January for ...
• 12 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR-The government has signed a "ceasefire" with Karen rebels, but "the objective is complete reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Myanmar has signed a cease-fire with the Karen rebels, an ethnic minority group, which has been in conflict with the Burmese army for 60 years . A step forward that Fr. Bernard ...
• 12 January 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Kasama and Apostolic Administrator of Mpika Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 12, 2012 appointed Archbishop of Kasama (Zambia), His Exc. Mgr Ignatius Chama, until now Bishop of Mpika. The same Prelate was also named Apostolic A ...
• 12 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - More than one million flood victims in Sindh in "piteous conditions", having to face the government's apathy Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1.3 million flood victims who, in Sindh province (southern Pakistan) find themselves in "piteous conditions", are having to face indifference on behalf of the institutions: this is the ...
• 11 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Casa de la Cristiandad", a soup kitchen for the poor and most vulnerable people has just opened Culiacan (Agenzia Fides) - "Casa de la Cristiandad", a soup kitchen for poor people, migrants, unemployed, drug addicts and alcoholics has opened recently, in Culiacan, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. ...
• 11 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "Eucharistic Adoration and Promotion of the Faith": the 35th Regional Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Conference of Taiwan prepares the Year of Faith Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - " Eucharistic Adoration and Promotion of the Faith" is the theme of the 35th Theological Seminar, organized by the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan in collaboration with the Fu Ren Cathol ...
• 11 January 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Cuban Catholic pilgrims living in Florida will go to Cuba to meet the Pope Miami (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Miami has confirmed a pilgrimage to Cuba to allow the Cuban Catholic devotees in South Florida to participate in the visit to the island of Pope Benedict XVI, scheduled for the ...
• 11 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The new Governor of the Muslim Autonomous Region of Mindanao is a missionary’s student Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The hopes of peace and reconciliation are growing in the southern Philippines, where a Muslim community of over 6 million people live, most of them are residents in the "Muslim Autonomous Regi ...
• 11 January 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The results of the legislative elections have been contested, while the battle concerning the presidential continues Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to live in a rather complex political stalemate. While President Joseph Kabila swore in on December 20, his principle opposer, Etienne Tshisekedi (who ...
• 11 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas Somalia: four million Somalis in critical condition, 250,000 at risk of hunger Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - According to FSNAU (Food Security Analysis Unit, an organization sponsored by the European Commission and by USAID), four million people are in conditions of food insecurity in Somalia, of the ...
• 11 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence against children: the CIMI raises its voice and describes the real situation Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The murder of an indigenous child of Maranhão, burnt by wood smugglers (madeireiros) in October 2011, has recently provoked the indignation of many Brazilians manifested in social networks. Al ...