News

• 8 October 2011
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church wants to know the truth about father Pupiro’s death Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The clergy of the Archdiocese of Managua, united as one body in communion with the Archbishop and the Auxiliary Bishop for the monthly meeting of October, would like to remember our brother pri ...
• 7 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The importance of the mass-media and study Centers to analyze the migration phenomenon, confirmed by the Scalabrinian Missionaries Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of the mass-media and study Centers to read and analyze the phenomenon of migration in adherence to the Scalabrinian charism and the proposed Scalabrinian international news ...
• 7 October 2011
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Major Seminary "St. Thomas" in the diocese of Kabgayi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 2, 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan philosophical Major Seminary "St. Tho ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Peace in the Moluccas through the "social media", while the government closes 300 radical websites Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Christian and Muslim Volunteers of the "Moluccas Interfaith Institute" and the youth group "Ambon Bergerak" have led and continue to conduct a "peace campaign" with text messages, internet forums, ...
• 7 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The campaign "For a Mexico without hunger": supports more than 31 thousand people in extreme poverty every week Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 15, the Food Bank of the Archdiocese of Mexico organizes a new day against hunger in the Federal District, by collecting non-perishable food in order to continue to support more t ...
• 7 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Family House Teresa de los Andes: it is difficult to get aid to help sick children Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, Oct. 3, the Family House Teresa de los Andes celebrated, with a thanksgiving Mass presided by Mgr.Sergio Gualberti, Coadjutor Archbishop of Santa Cruz, 22 years since its foundatio ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "All the baptized for the mission of the Church, which is the mission of Christ": the testimony of a religious Camillian Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 October all the parishes of the Catholic Church in Pakistan will celebrate World Mission Day, and the whole Church of the Asian country is getting ready for this moment. "This is a day ...
• 7 October 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A priest was killed in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. According to the information Fides gathered, don Awuor Kisero, who had returned to Kenya from Italy a few days before, was attacked by f ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics live the traditional celebration of the elderly according to Christian teaching Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him. Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you exult"(Pr 23.24 to 25). The continental C ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radical groups in the square, wave of arrests, minorities under attack Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A day of high tension in Pakistan because of protest marches and a strike called by Islamic radical groups of "Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat" ("Alliance to defend the name of the Prophet") to ask f ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Courses on technology for children at risk Sihanoukville (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of October, 20 young people at risk in the remote Cambodian province of Kep, Takeo and Kompot will start to attend training courses on Internet technologies and web design ...
• 6 October 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's new appeal for the Horn of Africa: "I invite everyone to offer prayers and concrete support" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the general audience on Wednesday, October 5, held at St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI made a new appeal for the drammatic situation of the people in the Horn of Africa. ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Over one thousand faithful welcome three new priests in the diocese of Yan An Yan An (Agenzia Fides) - There were over a thousand faithful of the diocese of Yan An, in the province of Shaa Xi, who attended the ordination of three new diocesan priests on October 3. The solemn ceremony was presided ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - First meeting of national missionary of seminarians, in the light of Aparecida and the Continental Mission Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the celebrations for the missionary month of October, from 6 to 9 October, at the Major Seminary "Christ the King" of Rancagua, the first meeting of the National Missionary of Semina ...
• 6 October 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Fears for the outbreak of a conflict of ample proportions in Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing alarm about the risk of a possible civil war in Sudan, after the announcement that the rebels active in Darfur, in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile region are about to conclu ...