News

• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We call on the security apparatus so that they tell us who fuels the Boko Haram violence": the Bishops’ request Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nigeria criticize the federal government for not having made progress in the fight against the Boko Haram sect, whose violent actions are spreading from the north to other parts of ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - IX Meeting of the Brazilian missionaries in Bolivia Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - From Friday 16 to Sunday 18 September, the ninth meeting of Brazilian missionaries who work in this country with the aim to share moments of spirituality, missionary experiences ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Power games behind the holy war in the Moluccas; the volunteers "belt of peace" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - The tension in Ambon heightens again, on the Molucca islands: after clashes between Muslims and Christians on Sunday, September 11 (see Fides 12/09/2011), the government has allocated through the ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Helping displaced children overcome trauma and suffering Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The children constitute 60% of the over 100 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Yemen. According to a UNICEF representative in the country, almost all the IDPs children have suffere ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - At least 92 have been killed in a pipeline in a slum in Nairobi, the outdated system is under indictment Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 92 people died and 117 wounded, of which 40 are very serious.This is the toll, still provisional, of the Kenya Pipeline Company explosion (KPC) which happened yesterday, September 12, in the slu ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appeals from religious leaders and NGOs: transparency, peace, legality in the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –It is urgent to protect peace by protecting legality, transparency concerning government action, impartiality of the police, dialogue between religions: this is what is said by religious lead ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Perpetual vows for four religious women Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Four diocesan religious women of the congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows of the diocese of Tai Yuan, mainland China, professed their perpetual vows on the Feast of the Nativ ...
• 13 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Monsignor Martinelli: "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am eager and anxious to return to Libya to continue my mission", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli after spending a period of convalescence in Italy, and is now preparing to retur ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA - In the midst of difficulties and persecution "it is the time for mission in Asia" Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Amid the difficulties, poverty or persecution, the Christians of Asia "are called to renew the proclamation of the Word, mission, evangelization", says His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Menamparampil SDB, I ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nine million people risk starvation Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The drought in northern, northwestern and western Afghanistan, is putting other 1.5-2 million people at the risk of starvation, in addition to the seven million around the country who already live ...
• 13 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A course on popular religiosity for new missionaries Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The department of Evangelization of the Commission for the missions of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, with the coordination of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), has organized a co ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Orders to demolish churches in Orissa have been cancelled Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - It is a victory for the Catholic Church in Orissa: the local government of Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence in 2008, announced the cancellation of the demolition orde ...
• 12 September 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The attack on the Israeli embassy is a clear act of breaking with the past", says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a proof of strength, a gesture of breaking with the past. A 'sacred' place was violated, which under Mubarak’s regime would never have been attacked in that way", says Fr.Giovanni to Fid ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic university students launch a new website dedicated to their peers to deepen the meaning of life, values and faith Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Catholic university students of the diocese of Han Dan, in He Bei province, mainland China, launched a new website for evangelization titled "The Choir of Angels", to offer their peer ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas. The Bishop: "Religious leaders peacemaker operators" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes between Christians and Muslims which occured yesterday, September 11, shocked the town of Ambon, the capital of the Moluccas, the islands in eastern Indonesian archipelago. As local source ...