News
2 February 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - Mission in the family: the experience of the Schoensttat Movement
Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) – There were 68 missionaries, for most part members of the Schoensttat Apostolic Movement, who, for the third consecutive year, gave life to the Missionary Families in the town of Cabrero, Ch ...
1 February 2011
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “The elections are valid, even if biased by irregularities” affirms the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Conference of Central Africa, defining the presidential and legislati ...
1 February 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - “Demonstrators intend to head towards the presidential palace,” local source tells Fides
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “Tahrir Square is full. The crowd is swarming and you can sense a certain tension, also because if anything happens that forces people to flee, many people risk dying of being crushed,” the mi ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/NEPAL - Missing cemeteries: Christians ready to demonstrate for minority rights
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – There is disappointment and indignation in the Nepalese Christian community at the lack of land to bury their dead in Kathmandu. Faithful Christians, after months of waiting, “are ready to ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/INDIA - All absolved: Report on anti-Christian violence “dishonest and full of prejudices”
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Praise from Hindu militant fundamentalists, strong protests from Christian leaders: these are the reactions recorded by Fides after the publication of the Report on anti-Christian violence t ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - In rural areas, 23 health workers per 10,000 people: doctors prefer clinics and hospitals in cities or they emigrate
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – At the recently held UN World Health Organization (WHO) second forum on human resources for health in Bangkok (25-29 January), experts sought new strategies to attract and retain health workers ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “President Aquino, confirm the policies for respect for life,” request from activists in the “Month for Life”
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – President Benigno Aquino should “confirm, absolutely and with legal measures, not just with words, that the Government intends to pursue family and demographic policies in complete respect fo ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/NEPAL - More than one and a half million child labourers, 24% are girls
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - According to an International Labour Organization (ILO) report, documenting Nepal's sizeable population of child labourers, this year one million fewer children are working in Nepal than a dec ...
1 February 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Continual attention from the Catholic community to encouraging vocations
Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – Among the most popular initiatives in many Catholic communities in view of the Chinese New Year, is the visiting of families of priests, men and women religious, by members of the community, ...
1 February 2011
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church's expectations from the visit of President Obama: welfare and development, emigration
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in El Salvador awaits the visit from the President of the United States, Barack Obama, with a positive outlook, hoping to establish the basis for a “radical reform f ...
1 February 2011
VATICAN - The Intentions entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2012
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Following are the Intentions that the Holy Father Benedict XVI has entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2012.
January
General: That the victims of natural disasters may receive ...
1 February 2011
AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of Rector at “Saint Luc” inter-diocesan Major Seminary in N’Djamena
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 14 May 2010, appointed as Rector at “Saint Luc” inter-diocesan Major Seminary in N’Djamena (Cha ...
31 January 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prayer celebrated for peace in all churches: a sign of hope for Pakistan
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The Day of prayer and fasting for peace celebrated yesterday, 30 January, in all the churches in Pakistan, was and is “a bright sign of hope for the whole Country.” It is an initiative whi ...
31 January 2011
ASIA/INDIA - India celebrates Pope John Paul II, on the 25th anniversary of his Visit to the nation
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – From tomorrow, 1 February, India will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Visit of John Paul II to the Asiatic nation in 1986. It will be “an event which carries a strong message of pea ...
31 January 2011
ASIA/CHINA - A village of vocations on the Silk Road
Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – A small village on Silk Road, inhabited by 660 people, of whom 400 are Catholic (about 130 families), has given 14 vocations to the Church in recent years: 7 priests, 1 deacon, 3 religious si ...
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