News

• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals threaten a Catholic school asking for the admission of Hindu children Khandwa (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Hindu groups have threatened the headmaster and teachers of a Catholic school in the Diocese of Khandwa (in the Madhya Pradesh state) trying to get a Hindu girl admitted to the scho ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO-Confirmation of the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 March 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Rev. Fr. Jose Orlando Camacho Torres, CSSp as National Director of th ...
• 13 July 2011
  VATICAN- The blog "Being Catholics in China" has been set up Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides Agency thought it necessary to set up the blog "Being Catholics in China" as a means of information and training for Chinese Catholics of this great continent. It is a good moment of ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY-The religious study the reality of the country Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of the Religious of Paraguay is celebrating its institutional assembly which has programmed an analysis of the national and ecclesial realities. In fact, this meeting will addres ...
• 12 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-The heart of a thirteen-year old girl "embraces the missions" Warsaw (Fides Service) - "Embracing the missions with a small heart" is the title of the book prepared and printed by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Poland, which collects poems written by Paulina Walc ...
• 12 July 2011
  AFRICA-AIDS is also fought with a short film Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, the AJAN (the African Jesuit Network against AIDS) launched a contest on the theme: "young people’s movies for life and love against AIDS", open to students of Jesuit schools on th ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of Farah Hatim arrives at the High Court of Punjab, the Catholic girl Islamized by force Multan (Fides Service) - The High Court in Punjab will judge and determine the truth about the case of Farah Hatim, the Catholic girl kidnapped, Islamized and forced to marry a Muslim man in the city of Rahim Yar Khan i ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-From the Vatican Council II to the current pastoral: summer training in the diocese of Liao Ning Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - In order to improve overall preparation of priests, religious men, religious women and laity of the diocese, the diocese of Liao Ning in the northeast province in mainland China a series of tr ...
• 12 July 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA-Drought emergency for 10 million people Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The worst drought in 60 years has created a devastating food crisis that is hitting 10 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Only this year, more than 135 000 Somalis have fl ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN-Maternal and infant mortality rate among the highest in the world Kabul (Fides Service) - 50 women die in childbirth every day in Afghanistan, one in three has suffered psychological or sexual violence, and the average age of survival is 44. According to the report State of the World' ...
• 12 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-New draft law against any type of abortion Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pro-life activists Foundation in Poland have collected 600 000 signatures in favor of a bill that would prohibit any type of abortion in the country protecting the unborn from the moment of c ...
• 12 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-The VII World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism in Mexico, where 22 million tourists arrived in 2010 Cancun (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican will have the full support of the Mexican authorities for the realization of the VII World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism to be held from 23 to 27 April 2012, assured the Am ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Two American tourists kidnapped, the nightmare of "Abu Sayyaf" returns Zamboanga City (Fides Service) – Fear for tourists and missionaries in south Philippines returns. The news of the kidnapping of two American tourists on holiday on the island of Tictabon, off the coast of Zamboanga Cit ...
• 12 July 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-Church's appeal to stop violence: killed 77 students killed and 114 murders committed on public transport San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in El Salvador asks to join the security situation due to the insecurity the country is living and facing and considers very serious the fact that authorities and leader ...
• 11 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-The "White Sisters" are opening the 24th General Chapter Rome (Fides Service) - The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (MSOL), known as the "White Sisters", are opening their 24th General Chapter in Rome, on July 13. For three weeks, until August 3, the 41 capitulants w ...