News

• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The flight of the Somali people to Kenya continues, the assistance of the Camillian Task Force Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the Somali population does not improve and the inexorable flight to Kenya in search of food and water continues. In the area of Wajir, one of the most affected by drought, mo ...
• 17 November 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Episcopal Conference is concerned about the life of a journalist on hunger strike Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement entitled "Reconciliation, Peace and Justice", the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela urges the judiciary authorities to "carefully consider" why the journalist Leocenis Garcia is ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Disabled elderly priest promotes the construction of a new church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) - Don Zhang Xiong Feng, disabled elderly priest of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi, in the Shaan Xi province, presided the solemn blessing and location of the new church building cross dedicated to the S ...
• 16 November 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Brazil's National Missionary Congress to the Latin American Missionary Congress Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the National Missionary Council (COMINA) of Brazil, which was held this past weekend, from 11 to 13 November, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A new church and an agreement with the Lateran University: the Ministry for Harmony is linked up with the Church of Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An agreement of collaboration with the Pontifical Lateran University and the construction of a new church in the diocese of Faisalabad: is what is reported to Fides, these are the results that toda ...
• 16 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A Catholic nun at the head of the Commission of Inquiry on electoral violence Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - The re-elected President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a religious Catholic, Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, at the head of a commission of inquiry into the violence on Novem ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Millions of mosquito nets to prevent malaria facilitated by recent floods Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of Cambodians will receive insecticide-treated nets by the government to try to limit the spread of malaria and dengue fever. This is the largest operation of distribution in Asia, 2 ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscans: human rights violations in Papua, NGOs hampered, the media gagged Geneva (Agenzia Fides) –Indonesian Papua is experiencing "serious abuses of civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural", while the mass media are gagged to hide the truth: so says the new Repor ...
• 16 November 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "The family is called to treasure the transmission of faith, it must become supportive and missionary" the conclusions of the Second Congress for the Family Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Ecuador has published the conclusions of the II National Congress of the Family, held simultaneously in Quito, Guayaquil, Portoviejo, Loja and Tena, from 9 to 12 Novemb ...
• 16 November 2011
  VATICAN - The Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops - file Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Hasn’t the time come, as many African pastors urge, to deepen this African Synodal experience? The exceptional growth of the Church in Africa, the rapid turnover of Pastors, the new chal ...
• 16 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - History, Economy and the presence of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Benin, where the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make his apostolic 22nd journey, from18 to 20 November, on the occasion of the signing and publication of the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of th ...
• 15 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Bishop and a Pastor are forced to leave the country on false charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Bishop Mgr. Pervaiz Joseph and Pastor Baber George were forced to flee abroad, because they were victims of false accusations of blasphemy and threatened with death by Islamic radi ...
• 15 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Year of the Laity: coordinate all the resources for a solid formation of faith and the Bible Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Coordinate all community resources to ensure a solid faith and with regard to the Holy Scripture: is the commitment underlined by the Diocesan Group, Responsible for the Year of the Laity, org ...
• 15 November 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Millions of children still without basic education Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Access to primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is still very precarious, with more than 7 million children across the country who do not attend school despite a governmen ...
• 15 November 2011
  VATICAN - The First Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops - file Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1989, Pope John Paul II announced his intention to convoke a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, the first in the history of Church ...