News

• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Missionary Association of the laity: on December 18 the missionary mandate to a lay woman who will spend three years in India Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) –Mrs Stephanie Ling, of the parish of St. Margaret in Hong Kong on 18 December will receive the missionary mandate of the Hong Kong Catholic Lay Missionary Association to spend three years on ...
• 25 November 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA- Kenya blocks the strategic port of Kismayu, the Shabab respond with attacks Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least three people have died and thirty injured: this is the toll of a series of terrorist attacks carried out yesterday, November 24, in Garissa, in the North Eastern Province in Kenya. On ...
• 25 November 2011
  AMERICA/PERU -New appeal by the Church to dialogue on the mining issue: "Our country does not deserve to see repeated tragic episodes" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Peru called for a "fair, equitable and constructive" dialogue after the announcement of a strike against the mining activities in the department of Cajamarca (the Andes, 860 ...
• 25 November 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA-The establishment of SIGNIS Colombia, a challenge for the Catholic communication in a country committed to peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – After the conclusions of a meeting between individuals and representatives of different institutions working in the field of the Catholic communication, that gathered on November 18 at the head ...
• 25 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The site of the Jesuits has been awarded, new means of evangelization that uses new technologies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Episcopal Conference has awarded "Bravo! 2011" for the category of new technologies, to the site rezandovoy.org. The site, created by the Society of Jesus at Valladolid in collaborati ...
• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Investigations concerning Father Tentorio are being carried out at a slow pace, stop to impunity: Civil Society writes to President Aquino Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) – To put an immediate end to the impunity that reigns in Arakan Valley and throughout the island of Mindanao; to promote justice and transparency with every means in the case of the murder of ...
• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for calm in Punjab after the killing of a farmer: it was not an act of violence against minorities Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "One must not fuel interreligious hatred and one must pay extreme attention in spreading information: the farmer Akram Masih, who was killed two days ago in Okara district, had converted to I ...
• 25 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The eve of the elections is tense between an alleged coup attempt and accusations of fraud through "fictitious seats" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – In the upcoming presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a newspaper in Kinshasa denounces an alleged coup attempt, foiled by the local authorities in collaboration w ...
• 24 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The vitality of the Catholic communities promotes the mission of evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – According to what Faith of He Bei refers to Fides, the vitality of the continental Catholic communities, strengthened by spirituality and by the exchange of experiences, is giving great ...
• 24 November 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-The Bishops listen to an Aboriginal leader, "an agenda of hope" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Present the Australian Bishops, gathered for the Plenary Meeting, an "agenda of hope" for the future of the Aboriginal people of Australia: with this spirit Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Social Ju ...
• 24 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Archbishop of Yangon: "A positive political turning point in the country, now full rights for all religions" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We look with favor on the current phase of reforms. Now the government invites religious leaders to work together for the development of the country and to give the same protections, rights and ...
• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Agricultural Training Centre in Kasisi helps farmers to improve their living conditions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides ) - Located about 300 km northeast of the capital, Lusaka, the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC), run by the Society of Jesus, has been concerned for decades to improving the living conditi ...
• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The situation is calm but tomorrow will be a decisive day", says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to wait until Friday, that is to say, tomorrow, to see how the situation develops", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, where a calm at ...
• 24 November 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "It is time to improve our institutions and expose corruption", asks the weekly magazine of the Archdiocese of Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Nuevo leon (Mexico City), through its weekly magazine "Desde la Fe", invites everyone to a serious reflection on the importance of the 2012 electoral events and to report ...
• 24 November 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "We Bishops must be witnesses of the kingdom of justice": the work of SEDAC General Assembly Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Bishops' Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC) is being held, in the municipality of Valle de Angeles, in Honduras. This assembly is held every year to evaluate and ...