News

• 6 July 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Despite the tensions, a festive atmosphere is lived on the eve of independence", says the Secretary general of the Archdiocese of Juba Juba (Fides Service) - "The spirit of the population is high, there is excitement about the event. Feverish preparations are under way to fix streets and paint the buildings", says Fr. Martin Ochaya to Fides, Secretary ...
• 6 July 2011
  VATICAN- The new edition of the Atlas hierarchicus on the Church's presence in the various continents was presented to the Pope Vatican City (Fides Service) - This morning, July 6, at 11am, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, accompanied by Rev. P. Giancarlo Girardi, SVD, Editor of the pu ...
• 6 July 2011
  ASIA/LAOS- The victims of unexploded ordnance have decreased, but the danger is still high Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people involved in accidents caused by unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Laos, the country with the largest number of cluster bombs around the world, has fallen from an average of 300 ...
• 5 July 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR- Fighting continues in the north, while the refugees are dying from hunger and disease Banmaw (Fides Service) - Non-stop fighting continues in the civil war that is affecting the north of Myanmar, where the Burmese army and the guerrillas of the Kachin Independent Army are confronting each other (see Fides ...
• 5 July 2011
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA-"We are witnesses of the great suffering of migrants," say the Bishops of North and Central America San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of North and Central America are asking their governments to take responsibility for the legal protection of migrants. In a recent statement they claim to be "witnesses of the great ...
• 5 July 2011
  AFRICA /NIGERIA - "I do not exclude political reasons, someone could use the sect Boko Haram" says the Bishop of Maiduguri after recent attacks Maiduguri (Fides Service) - "It is clear that the tension in the city is very high, since there are armed groups who go around shooting people", says Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doem to Fides, Bishop of Maiduguri, in north Nigeria ...
• 5 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-150 years of mission of the Dominicans: next ordination of a priest originally from Hong Kong and a Korean deacon Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Next Saturday, July 9, the liturgy recalls St.Augustine Zhao Rong and his fellow martyrs in China. On that day His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, will preside the Mass in the Cath ...
• 5 July 2011
  ASIA/IRAQ- The country is one of the most insecure places in the world for children Baghdad (Fides Service) - Decades of war and international sanctions have turned Iraq into one of the most unsafe places for children in the Middle East and North Africa. In town, in fact, there are about 3 and a half mi ...
• 5 July 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO- Peace march for Congo along the Francigena way on behalf of a Congolese living in Italy Rome (Fides Service) - "It is important to know one’s own history to avoid that the same crimes are repeated", says John Mpaliza to Fides, a Congolese native of Bukavu ( Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC ...
• 5 July 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA. For Cardinal Urosa, the Bicentennial is "an opportunity for Venezuelans to carry out the ways of a real and permanent independence, marked by the teachings of the Gospel" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – In the context of the celebrations of the Venezuelan people for 200 years of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Catholic Church has stressed her position for refusing "all tha ...
• 5 July 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-Appointment of the Rector of the preparatory Seminary "Paul VI" in the Diocese of Nkongsamba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 27, 2011 appointed rev. Wolfgang Bienvenu Misoba, the diocesan clergy of Eseka rector of t ...
• 4 July 2011
  VATICAN-"Great number of people exhausted by poverty, displaced persons and refugees, those who emigrate risking their lives: May Christ's gaze alight on all these people", recalls the Pope at the Angelus Vatican City (Fides Service) - When Jesus walked the roads of Galilee, proclaiming the Kingdom of God and healing many sick people, he felt compassion for the crowds because they were tired and helpless, said the Holy Fa ...
• 4 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A priest, "another victim of hatred between brothers" Heroica Matamoros (Fides Service) - A Mexican diocesan priest, Father Marco Antonio Duran Romero was killed in a firefight between soldiers and an armed group in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the Un ...
• 4 July 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-Nearly 7,000 students of Fu Jen Catholic University, have completed their course of studies Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - 6,861 students of Ben Fu Jen Catholic University have concluded in recent days their course of studies. Among them 15 have obtained a doctorate, 1,138 a school-leaving exam, 5,708 the baccalaure ...
• 4 July 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-Shortage of priests: Mass every other Sunday for some parishes in the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In some Catholic parishes in the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Sydney, in the Australian Outback of New South Wales, Mass can be celebrated only once every two w ...