News

• 25 June 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Serious outbreak of cholera in various parts of the country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Kenyan Ministry of Health has announced that a serious outbreak of cholera in areas of Nairobi, the Rift Valley and the coastal is propagated by a scarcity of hygiene and sanitation and th ...
• 25 June 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux in South Africa: 10 July evening prayer vigil on the eve of the World Cup Final Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux arrive today 25 June, at the Carmelite Convent in Benoni, Johannesburg, where they will be welcomed by the clergy of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg, ...
• 25 June 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National meeting of vocation animators for religious life Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – From 28 June to 3 July, in Cochabamba (Bolivia), consecrated persons, men and women religious, temporary and perpetual vows, novices, chaplains, spiritual directors, active in vocation disc ...
• 25 June 2010
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appeal to new government: illegal immigrants must not be demonised or used as “ political capital” Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In Australia on the occasion of the closing of a National Week for Refugees, Catholic realities, human rights activists and organisation and agencies for refugees appealed to the new prime minist ...
• 24 June 2010
  AFRICA - Disjointed economic growth benefits only a small minority Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “It is unquestionably true that Africa is growing, but also that it lacks the policies to turn this growth into financial policies which will promote the prosperity of the people ” Fides learne ...
• 24 June 2010
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Caritas Goma runs programmes for victims of a “forgotten war” in eastern Congo Goma (Agenzia Fides)- The silent victims of “forgotten wars” are mainly women and children. This is the case of women in north Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where bands of armed men, local an ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Churches, convents and homes under water but the faithful remain strong in faith and hope: 27 June Day of Prayer Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Due to burst dams in southern China because of torrential rains on 13 June in 10 provinces of China, churches, chapels, mission stations and other places of worship as well as homes, ar ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “Learning today how to change tomorrow ”: Arab and Israeli pupils attend “special” school together Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Pupils at “Hand in Hand” schools Arabs and Israelis and they study in both languages. These special schools are for Israelis and Arabs, the latter being Muslims and Christians. A most unus ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against Christians on the increase: Bishops of Pakistan issue latest “Report on Religious Minorities” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The trend of violence against Christian communities “increased in 2009-2010”, the blasphemy law is a “sword of Damocles over minorities”; religious freedom “is reduced to a myth”, a ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Divine Mysteries will be celebrated at Sumela Monastery, usually closed for worship Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) – The historical Sumela Monastery, located in the north of Turkey, will be opened for one-day worship on August 15. The monastery, which stands at the foot of a steep cliff facing the Altindere ...
• 24 June 2010
  ASIA/TURKEY - The death of Mgr. Padovese is a call for unity in the Church and among all Christians Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) – “The tragic event of the death of Mgr Padovese represents for the Catholic Church in Turkey a call for unity and to overcome fragmentation. It is call to intensify the spirit of ecumenism ...
• 24 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Aid for victims of torrential rains, Caritas launches national campaign Alagoas (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil CNBB informed Fides that Caritas Brazil, region north-east 2, has launched a campaign SOS Pernambuco e Alagoas, to aid victims of torrential rains in ...
• 24 June 2010
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Human trafficking: the local Church's “ constant and ongoing ” concern Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Commission for Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), in collaboration with the National Secretariat for Justice of the Ministry of Justice ...
• 24 June 2010
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - First Mission Congress for Seminarians: "fruit of increased missionary awareness in our local Church ” Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Jesús Pérez, Archbishop of Sucre, commenting Bolivia's First Mission Congress for Seminarians (see Fides 19/06/2010), shared with Fides his joy and enthusiasm for the pre ...
• 24 June 2010
  OCEANIA/MICRONESIA - At the academic centre run by Mercedarian Missionary Sisters on the Island of Pohnpei, besides lessons the pupils experience service Pohnpei (Agenzia Fides) - For many years Mercedarian Missionary Sisters of Bérriz have borne witness to Christ among the young people on the small Island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia. The Sisters opened a school, Nuestra S ...