News

• 21 September 2010
  AMERICA/HAITI - Nuncio to Haiti tells Fides: “The humanitarian situation is still in an emergency phase. Over 1 million refugees are living in tents and the number is on the rise.” Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – "The humanitarian situation is still in an emergency phase. Over 1 million refugees are living in tents and, instead of diminishing, the number is on the rise. Even the poor who come fr ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Fear among Christians in Karachi, suffering “insecurity” Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "There are no imminent threats, but there is still fear evident among the Christian community. In Pakistan, we Christians are in a precarious condition: we do not know what may happen in the n ...
• 21 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sr. Luzia Premoli, new Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, first non-Italian Verona (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Luzia Premoli, a Brazilian, is the new Superior General of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, elected September 20 in the 19th General Chapter of the congregation, which has been underway a ...
• 21 September 2010
  AMERICA - Witnesses and prophets of hope in the region: Caritas's 17th Latin American/Caribbean Congress Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Following the motto "In Christ we build one America for all", organization has begun for the XVII Latin American/Carribean Congress for Caritas and the Fourth Continental Meeting of the P ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment to Christianizing the family is a journey that should never end Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – "The courses dedicated to Christianizing the family have ended, but the effort to Christianize the family is a journey that should never end." This was how Archbishop Peter Liu of the Dioces ...
• 21 September 2010
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Matadi resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Benedict XVI, on September 21, 2010, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Matadi (DRC), presented by Bishop Gabriel Kembo Mamputu, in conformity with ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Decrease in the number of dengue cases in comparison with same time in 2009 Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Health officials in Sri Lanka are reporting a significant drop in the number of reported dengue cases. According to the team of officials, 58 cases of the mosquito-borne disease occurred durin ...
• 21 September 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Religious leaders develop peace strategy: reopen talks with the LRA and encourage guerrillas to desert Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – Religious leaders from the four countries affected by the violent raids of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have signed a commitment to apply pressure locally and internationally to find a peac ...
• 20 September 2010
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI beatifies Cardinal Newman: “The definite service to which Blessed John Henry was called involved applying his keen intellect and his prolific pen to many of the most pressing 'subjects of the day.'” Birmingham (Agenzia Fides) - “It is right and fitting that we should recognize today the holiness of a confessor, a son of this nation who, while not called to shed his blood for the Lord, nevertheless bore eloquent wi ...
• 20 September 2010
  VATICAN - Mass in Thanksgiving for the beatification of Cardinal Newman in the Propaganda Fide Chapel, where he was ordained a Catholic priest Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – It was in thanksgiving to God for the beatification of a former pupil of Propaganda Fide and the successful outcome of the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in the UK that Cardinal Iva ...
• 20 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Trafficking of women and children refugees denounced by NGOs Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is a growing phenomenon, observed by local NGOs: among the flood refugees there are a rising number of cases of abductions and disappearances of women and children who are victims of huma ...
• 20 September 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary solidarity project: Brazil sends missionaries to Haiti Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – "Solidarity Between the Church in Brazil and the Church in Haiti" is the name of the missionary project (see Fides 04/03/2010) that has been undertaken by the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (C ...
• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa only receive “ceremonies” and little aid Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The visit of H.T. Sangliana, Vice-President of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), to the Orissa and Kadhamal district was mere “ceremony,” said Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, ...
• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Using solidarity to fight radicalism; UN makes appeal Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In order to face all the problems associated with the vast relief operation taking place amidst the floods in Pakistan - the fatigue in aid, corruption, discrimination, opportunism of Islami ...
• 18 September 2010
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Apostolic Vicar of Awassa tells Fides: “Our concern is to promote integral human development, based on Gospel values.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – An Apostolic Vicariate with an area approximately one third the size of Italy is Awassa, Ethiopia. Fides has asked its Apostolic Vicar, Bishop Giovanni Migliorati, in Rome for the Seminar of newl ...