News

• 27 July 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops’ message for the National Anniversary: "For a future of progress and hope" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 28 July is a special date for Peru: it is the anniversary of national independence, but this year the celebration has a special meaning because it coincides with the start of newly-elected Preside ...
• 27 July 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Catholic University of Buenos Aires for the formation of missionaries Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Victor Manuel Fernandez, Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires" (UCA), and Don Osvaldo Pablo Leone National Director of the Pontific ...
• 27 July 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The difficult path in the DRC toward elections in November Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The political debate rages in the Democratic Republic of Congo in sight of the presidential and legislative elections on 28 November. In a note sent to Fides, the Network "Peace for Congo", pro ...
• 27 July 2011
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - New homes have been given to families of 300 street children Guayaquil (Fides Service) - Guayaquil is one of the most important cities in Ecuador, developed mainly on the right bank of the Guayas River, its population reaches 3 million and half. The Nigeria area, which is located ...
• 27 July 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - 20 000 people displaced due to the floods that have hit the southeastern part of the country Cox's Bazar (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy rains that have hit the southeastern part of Bangladesh have forced more than 20 000 people to flee from their homes in the districts of Cox's Bazar and Teknaf, where another 84 ...
• 27 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian Bishops urge young people to live the fullness of faith and work for the common good Abuja (Fides Service) - "Look after your dignity and integrity and behave like good patriots". This is how His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Effiong Ekuwem, Bishop of Uyo (Nigeria) and responsible for the pastoral agents of the Niger ...
• 27 July 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 July 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Fr. Manuel Antonio Lopes Batista, of the Society of the Divine Wo ...
• 26 July 2011
  "May Western Christians, compliant to the Holy Spirit, rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm of their faith" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for August 2011 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the primitive Church, due to persecution and the evangelical zeal of the first disciples, the apostles and their collaborators spread throughout the land known at the time. St. Paul eva ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith celebrates twenty years since its Foundation and awards 20 "examples of evangelization today" Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The 20 "Models of evangelization today" elected by mainland Chinese Catholics through Faith in He Bei, were awarded on July 13 at the Major Seminary in He Bei. The initiative is part of ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Even a truck can become a classroom Manila (Fides Service)- A truck has been turned into a classroom so that it can accommodate up to 25 students at once and will offer lessons from Monday to Friday for four hours a day for children and street children lef ...
• 26 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-Seven million young people who do not study and do not work, are easy prey for criminal organizations (Mexico City Fides)- Seven million young people do not study and are unable to find a job, and risk being sucked into the criminal organizations that perfection their networks to recruit more and more young people who li ...
• 26 July 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Izabal and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on July 26, 2011 accepted the resignation of the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal (Guatemala), by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez B ...
• 26 July 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Food stores are hit, but with what right?" Complains Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Fides Service) - "They are hitting civilian targets such as food stores" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides. "A few days ago, NATO warplanes hit a food s ...
• 26 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Maiduguri to Fides: "an intolerable climate of violence, the attacks continue almost every day" Maiduguri (Fides Service) - "At the moment I cannot confirm the reports of Amnesty International with regards to the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the forces of antiterrorism", says His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe D ...
• 26 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Medical facilities in the northwestern areas of conflict are on the brink of collapse Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - In the last three years, doctors and nurses at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, have been particularly busy. The hospital, one of the largest in the country, moni ...