News
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - “Haiti was already an extremely poor country before the earthquake. Now we are desperate,” says Fr. Lovera, Director of the “Saint Camille” Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The Camillian Missionaries are at the forefront in the earthquake tragedy. Fr. Lovera is the Director of the "Saint Camille" Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince, that in these hours wa ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI): one student dead, damages to provincial house and scholasticate destroyed
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate have been in Haiti since January 1943, and now have about 130 members, including two bishops and most of whom are Haitians. As Agenzia Fides has ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Many Salesians still missing, over 200 students buried under the fallen building in Port-au-Prince Enam
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Knowledge about the current situation of the Salesians in Haiti is still limited and incomplete some two days after the earthquake which devastated the capital. It is still difficult to ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti: Daughters of Mary Help of Christians at work on the site
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - We have still have fresh in our minds the dramatic images that TV and newspapers around the world are portraying as a witness to the catastrophe caused by the earthquake that struck the c ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - First humanitarian aid interventions open doors, although there is fear of epidemics
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The volunteers of the Movement for the Struggle Against World Hunger (in Italian, MLFM) are working with the local community of Les Cayes to gather essential items, water and gasoline. ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros: “The country has opened the doors of all its hospitals and reinforced medical personnel,” fundraising telethon planned
Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Ramon Benito de La Rosa y Carpio of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, has been contacted by Agenzia Fides, for updates on the situation and aid to the ...
15 January 2010
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Contradictions from government: use of “Allah” only permitted for Christians of Malaysian Borneo
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Malaysian government, led by the UMNO (United Malays National Organization) has today granted the faithful present in Malaysian Borneo (specifically in the two states of Sabah and Saraw ...
15 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Jesuits: houses, centers, and personnel of the Society of Jesus spared
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The General Curia of the Jesuits has sent Fides the letter from Fr. François Kawas, delegate of the French Province of Canada (of which Haiti is a part), describing the situation after ...
14 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Hospital run by Camillians is only one functioning. “We are in need of practically everything,” Fr. Efisio Locci tells Fides
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There are three Italian Camillians and two Haitian fathers currently working on the island that was devastated by the earthquake. In this time of great need, all communications with Haiti ...
14 January 2010
ASIA/MALAYSIA - 10th church attacked by vandals, random acts of violence continue occurring
Johor (Agenzia Fides) – Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church in Johor, a city in southern Malaysia (in the State of Malacca), was attacked by vandals last night. Johor is the city hosting the meeting of the Bishops' Confere ...
14 January 2010
VATICAN - Holy Father makes appeal for Haiti, “that these our brothers and sisters who are experiencing a moment of need and suffering may not lack our concrete solidarity”; support of the Church in Italy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – At the close of the General Audience on Wednesday, January 13, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched the following appeal for Haiti: “I now wish to make an appeal for the dramatic situa ...
14 January 2010
EUROPE/GERMANY - German Bishops inaugurate new Office for Missionary Pastoral Care at Major Seminary in Erfurt
Erfurt (Agenzia Fides) - Since January 1, 2010, the new Office for Missionary Pastoral Care (Arbeitsstelle für Katholische Missionarische Pastoral, KAMP) has started its work in the local Major Seminary in Erfurt, in th ...
14 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Church organizations, NGOs, and associations bringing aid to Haiti
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Church has always been particularly close to the Haitian people, through Catholic organizations and groups that have supported this country that is among the poorest in the world and they hav ...
14 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Church in Americas reaching out to Haiti; USA's PMS launch “Haitian Solidarity Fund”
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Various Bishops' Conferences of Latin America took immediate action as soon as they heard the news of the earthquake in Haiti. The President of the Bishops' Conference of the Dominican ...
14 January 2010
AMERICA/HAITI - Earthquake affects Salesians
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the communication difficulty with Haiti, news has reached Fides that among the victims of the earthquake that struck the Caribbean Island, there is also a Salesian Brother, Hube ...
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