News

• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Humanitarian Disaster: One child out of 3 is malnourished, hospitals are overcrowded or closed, access to water is difficult Sa'dah (Agenzia Fides) - Yemen is on the verge of a real and serious humanitarian disaster. In some areas of the country vaccination for children has decreased by 40%, fueling the rapid spread of polio and measles epidem ...
• 26 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The long-awaited rain is making the humanitarian situation worse, according to a Report of Caritas Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)-About 4 million people are still at risk of hunger in Somalia, 3 million of these are in southern Somalia. This is what is said in the fourth "Situation Report" by Caritas Somalia of which a cop ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - A Philippine worker has been arrested for blasphemy: Bishops appeal for his release Riyadh (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic Filipino worker, who emigrated to work in Saudi Arabia has been arrested on charges of blasphemy. As reported to Fides by the organization "Brotherhood in the Middle East", which deals ...
• 26 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, "It is a challenge to accommodate an ever-increasing number of deportees from the United States" Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "For Mexico it is a great challenge to receive the thousands of Mexicans who are deported from the United States, after the government of this country established as a priority the indiscrimi ...
• 26 October 2011
  AFRICA - Children, especially malnourished, victims most at risk of one of the worst epidemics of cholera Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This year in West and Central Africa more than 85 000 cases of cholera that have killed 2,466 people have been registered. For dimensions and the danger of outbreaks, the region is facing one of th ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Identikit for two of Tentorio’s killers; two other missionaries in the crosshairs Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Task Force is investigating the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, killed on October 17 in Arakan (Mindanao) and the identikit of two killers has been traced, say local sources of Fides. A ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops and 15 thousand tribal people from Mindanao for the last farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - In a climate of prayer and emotion, the communities of Mindanao and the entire Church in the Philippines said farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "He died like Jesus on the cross, the missionary who showed mercy to the tribal people, abandoned by the government", says the Bishop during the funeral Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Father Fausto "did not like ceremonies" and "worked in relative obscurity". "He was a missionary who showed mercy, especially to the little children of God among his parishioners, the Lumad (t ...
• 25 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Resentment among Gaddafi’s supporters for his burial in an unknown place Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - " Gaddafi’s burial in an unknown location in the desert is creating resentment among his supporters that are still present, especially in Sirte. Resolutions of retaliation circulate, even if o ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The nutrition of the population affected by severe flooding is at risk Kratie (Agenzia Fides) - The severe floods in Cambodia have put at serious risk the nutrition of the country’s population. In 17 of the 24 provinces, about 300 people have been killed and other 34 000 have been forced ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day: new beginning of evangelization for the continental Catholic community Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day marks a "new beginning of evangelization" for mainland Catholic community. This is what priests of various continental Catholic communties report to Fides. As reported in Faith ...
• 25 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA -Itnpis: the road will not be done, the Church: "We were witnesses of solidarity and commitment to the cause of the indigenous people" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - After 65 days since the beginning of the indigenous march and confrontation with the government, President Morales has decided not only the definitive suspension of the construction of the second ...
• 25 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Second Social Week reflects on the theme of "Power" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From October 25 to 27 the second social week organized by the Diocesan Commission for justice and solidarity of Cochabamba in collaboration with the Social Pastoral of the local Caritas wil ...
• 25 October 2011
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Malnutrition against the health of the poor: 17% of Guatemalans are poor Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of families in Guatemala survive on a very precarious diet of flour and cereals, they cannot economically afford protein foods like meat and dairy products which are essential for gr ...
• 25 October 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's Message: migrations are an opportunity for evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The present time, in fact, calls upon the Church to embark on a new evangelization also in the vast and complex phenomenon of human mobility. This call for an intensification of her missio ...