News

• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN - More than 300 dioceses in the world celebrate Pauline Jaricot, pioneer of the mission ad gentes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 dioceses in the world, in five continents, will celebrate on 9 January, the 150th anniversary of Pauline Jaricot’s death: this is what Father Timothy Lehane Barrett, Secreta ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: "The political tension must not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hope is that the political tensions does not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people ", says to Fides Fr. Gerard Hammond, Maryknoll Missionary and Director of Program ...
• 5 January 2012
  VATICAN - "Boys and girls, make yourselves heard, without shame and uncertainty always trusting in God", the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood urges all boys and girls Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in 2012, the year of Faith wanted by the Holy Father. Boys and girls, you belong to Missionary Childhood and therefore you believe in the role you have been entrusted, to bear ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph have been in service to society for 120 years Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are a presence that is leaven for the Church and society: the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang (in the province of He Bei) celebrated the 12 ...
• 5 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 10 million pilgrims at the Shrine of Aparecida in 2011 Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Shrine of Aparecida, which is located in the northern city of Aparecida (São Paulo State), welcomed a total of 10.885.878 million visitors in 2011. This is what the Episcopal Con ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - People are hungry for food and spiritual health: new group of Lay Camillian Family in Gojra Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Lay Camillian Family (LCF) in Pakistan continues to bear its fruit. In a statement just sent to Fides, Father Mushtaq Anjum, MI, reports some good news. After hearing ab ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New enthusiasm for the mission in the Year of grace 2012, between proclamation and solidarity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2012 will be "a year of grace for the mission" in the Philippines: the Episcopal Conference has in fact declared it the "Year of the Pontifical Mission Societies" (POM), a period that wi ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A sewing institute was inaugurated by the religious Camillians cutting for poor girls Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The religious Camillians have just opened the St. Camillus Sewing Center, in a small village called Chak 6/4-L, MF, in Okara, in the diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan. This is what father Mus ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Evangelization, Laity and Family: Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization, Christian initiation of adults, laity and family, as indicated by the Holy Father in his Letter to Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the main themes that Mgr. John Tong Bis ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - A task force of the Church to combat the trafficking of women and young girls Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) –Human being trafficking and exploitation, especially women and girls, is a social evil in India, according to estimates it affects 20 to 60 million victims, and on which crime flourishes. It i ...
• 4 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Cholera continues to claim victims among children and 750 000 people risk starvation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After 20 years of war, Somalia is currently experiencing a very serious famine and so far 55 children have died of cholera and severe malnutrition. In the southern region of Bay, about 250 kil ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case, "a bridge between Christians and Muslims", recalling Salman Taseer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi’s case, an innocent victim of the abuse of the blasphemy law, must be "a bridge, not a wall, between Muslims and Christians", which can form an alliance "together to save a human life ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Farewell to death penalty: all those condemned to death sentence are commuted to life imprisonment Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a further turning point, announced by the government of Myanmar, in the field of the new measure of amnesty which concerns hundreds of prisoners: in addition to significant reductions in pu ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - After 20 years since the Peace Agreements, the Church calls for a new national social Pact San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The budget of twenty years is positive but today the country needs "something more": just days before the 20th anniversary of the historic "peace agreements" signed on January 16, 1992 in ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sad toll for 2011 in Colombia: 117 children killed Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011 117 children were murdered in Colombia, 41 of them under 5 years of age. This is what emerges from the statistics, sent to Fides, on the toll statements released at the end of 2011 concer ...