News
18 January 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Over 300,000 students at risk for losing their place in state high schools; Archdiocese of Nairobi reopens parochial school
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The new year began in Kenya with bad news for 300,000 students that might not have access to secondary schools supported by the Government. The measure comes after the scandal of the millions of ...
18 January 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Common criteria, valid and effective, for volunteering in Africa: Conference in Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Department for Youth Ministry of the Salesian Order, along with their Department for the Missions, the International Voluntary Service for Development (VIS), and the Don Bosco Network (DBN ...
16 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Monfortians: 9 seminarians dead, one priest missing
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a time for tears; there is desolation everywhere, and the Montfortians have not been spared," writes Fr. Maurice, SMM, from Haiti, where the Montfort Missionaries (Company of Mary) ...
16 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Daughters of Wisdom: 3 sisters dead, another three still under the rubble
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Three Sisters from the Congregation of Daughters of Wisdom, of the Monfortian Family, died in their assisted living home in Carrefour, which was leveled by the earthquake: Sr. Marie-Flo ...
16 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Redemptorists: Church of San Gerardo reduced to rubble, students sleeping in the yard
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Father Joseph P. Dorcey, C.Ss.R., Secretary General of the Congregation of the Redemptorists, has sent Fides a report on the situation of the members present in the country affected by ...
16 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Dominicans: all priests survived, one Sister wounded
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Agenzia Fides has contacted the Secretary General of the Curia of the Dominican Fathers, who reported a recent communication with Father Manuel Rivero, OP (Vicar of Haiti) on the situat ...
16 January 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - Solidarity with Haitian victims, from Latin American Bishops' Conference
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conferences of Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile have announced the creation of a national collection to aid the rescue of the Haitian population which currently lacks ...
16 January 2010
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Updated List of 11 Churches Attacked
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – The number of churches attacked in Malaysia between January 8-16, 2010 is now at 11, although there is also a Sikh temple and a mosque. This is an updated list, according to information g ...
16 January 2010
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Rocks thrown against a Baptist church and bottles thrown at mosque - Christians in prayer and fasting confirm non-violent stance
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - An eleventh church has been hit by vandals in Malaysia. This morning, the Grace Global Prayer Baptist Church in the city of Semabarna - the state capital of Negeri Sembilan in Peninsular Ma ...
16 January 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Entire Catholic world - China mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - all working to assist Haitian earthquake victims
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Prayers and offerings are the watchwords in these hours. From the mainland to Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Chinese Catholic world is mobilizing all its forces to respond to the Pope and to help our ...
16 January 2010
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishop of Ndola resigns, successor appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on January 16, 2010, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Ndola (Zambia) presented by Bishop Noel Charles O’Regan, S.M. ...
16 January 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Construction of a mosque on parish property in northeastern Congo: “a useless provocation,” local Bishop tells Fides
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Islamic community has started work on a mosque on land belonging to the parish of “Mater Admirabilis" in downtown Dungu, in the Diocese of Doruma-Dungu, northeastern Democratic Republic ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - “The aftershocks continue, although less violent. We are in need of everything and will be for quite awhile!” Apostolic Nuncio tells Fides
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in great distress. We have no water reserves and gas stations are closed. There is no electricity. Here in Port-au-Prince things are difficult. We are in need of everything; we ne ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception: sisters are fine, although buildings have suffered tremendous damage
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Superior General of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (MIC) has contacted Agenzia Fides to inform that the Congregation has suffered greatly in the earthquake in Haiti. ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - 5 Camillian seminarians have returned home fine and are already at work in the hospital, working without anesthesia
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – "All 5 Camillian seminarians returned to our house and are well and are working in our hospital." This is good news that the Superior of the Camillian Community of Port-au-Prince, Fathe ...
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