News

• 7 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Bishops' message for the 11 October elections: "Politics, the highest form of charity" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a change of mindset for peaceful, free and trasparent elections" write the Bishops of Burkina Faso in their Pastoral Letter entitled "Political commitment: a supreme expression of l ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty and precariousness force people to seek food in the garbage Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis that is currently affecting Venezuela decreases the number of Venezuelans who can buy basic food items on a daily basis. According to information gathered by Fides, this ...
• 7 September 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians arrested on charges of proselytizing Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians were arrested by the police in the province of Khammouan, in the East of Laos, on charges of alleged proselytizing. The police broke into the house of a Christian in the village ...
• 4 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - May our nation be an open space for respectable migration, in justice and peace Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Just like every person has the right to defend their identity, to set limits to its spaces, one also has the vital need to open its borders in order to meet each other’s needs, to give on ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Albert's College" Seminary in Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 April 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Deepak Valerian Tauro, of the diocesan clergy of Muzaffarpur as Rect ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A court denies bail to some Christians arrested for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism Court in Gujranwala has denied bail to a group of Christians accused of blasphemy and were arrested, including Protestant Pastor Gill Aftab, who leads the "Biblical Church of G ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "The last nail in Bethlehem’s coffin": A dossier on the Cremisan wall Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - "The last nail in Bethlehem’s coffin: the annexation wall in Cremisan". This is the title of a new, detailed report, released yesterday by the Society of St. Yves, the Catholic Center for Hu ...
• 4 September 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - More than 30 dead in two attacks in northern Cameroon Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people died in a double bomb attack yesterday, September 3, in Kerawa, a town in the far north of Cameroon on the border with Nigeria. According to testimonies, a first explosion, a ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - A Jesuit: the Census on religions denies the "fear of conversions" Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the government of Narendra Modi has been at the helm of the country (May 2014), the 'fear of conversions' has been raised, which in particular Christians and Muslims seem to be promotin ...
• 4 September 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops of Kenya officially announce Pope Francis' visit Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Bishops, I am happy to announce that the Holy Father has accepted our invitation and will visit Kenya in November". This is the official announcement of the Bishops of Kenya th ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Negotiations on the release of father Murad and 270 hostages, Christians and Muslims Homs (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jacques Murad and about 270 Christians and Muslims taken hostage by jihadi militias during their offensive in southeast of Homs are alive, and their condition is currently considered quite " ...
• 3 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dengue haemorrhagic fever affects children in Huila Huila (Agenzia Fides) - The lack of early diagnosis and family care are among the main causes of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is causing a high number of deaths among children of the Colombian department of Huila. We ...
• 3 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of the Bishops of Colombia and Venezuela on the border area crisis Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Permanent Council of Colombian Bishops, presided by Archbishop of Tunja, Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, with the President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, His Exc. M ...
• 3 September 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Archbishop of Juba will inform Pope Francis on the situation in his country Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Paolino Lukudu Loro, Archbishop of Juba, will inform Pope Francis on the situation in South Sudan. Before embarking for Rome, the Archbishop, talking with the reporters of Radio Bakhita, expr ...
• 3 September 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - A video and a letter from Father Jacques Murad, the prior of St. Elian kidnapped last May, has been released Homs (Agenzia Fides) - The rumors spread regarding the release of Fr. Jacques Murad, Prior of the Monastery of Mar Elian and pastor of the Qaryatayn community, kidnapped last May 21 by unidentified kidnappers, have not y ...