News

• 12 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Bishop Marcuzzo with regards to Christian Schools on strike: there will be no "closure" of Holy Sites Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing serious and reliable in the rumors of a possible closure of Holy Sites as an initiative to be taken in the support of the strike regarding Christian Schools". This is what Bis ...
• 12 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops denounce the climate of violence and the rekindling of the spirit of division of the Country Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Thou shalt not kill". With reference to the fifth commandment the Bishops of Burundi invite Burundians to work for peace in the Country which is experiencing the worst crisis since the civil ...
• 12 September 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Amnesty for 3522 prisoners: the Bishops express their satisfaction with "this act of mercy" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of the liberation of prisoners is a source of joy and spiritual relief for the detainees themselves and their relatives as well as for the collaborators of the Prison Pastoral Care", sa ...
• 11 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Bangladesh for the XXV Anniversary of the diocese of Rajshahi: "there is much work to do" Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is consoling to know that after twenty-five years your Local Church is growing, not only in number, but also in the service of God and of the community, in spite of tensions and different d ...
• 11 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week of Peace: Colombians want a date for talks with the ELN Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 28th edition of the Week of Peace is being held in different cities of Colombia with exhibitions, conferences and artistic events, which this year has chosen the motto "I greet others", as gr ...
• 11 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bombay Archdiocese to hold National Eucharistic Congress in November Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - "The event is meant to affirm our belief in God and learn from the sacrifice Jesus Christ made. By participation, Catholics learn to sacrifice, share and nourish", said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, A ...
• 11 September 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The rains have caused severe damage to church structures in Mbour; controversy over the lack of relief Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Torrential rains have devastated Senegal in recent days and damaged the home and the school of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and the church of Santa Marta in Mbour, 80 km south of the c ...
• 11 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Chief of Staff escapes a road ambush carried out by rebel soldiers Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Chief of Staff of the Burundian army, General Prime Niyongabo, escaped this morning, September 11, an attack in the capital, Bujumbura. The convoy of the general was attacked by a heavily ...
• 11 September 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From the crisis of Zamboanga, a hope for Muslim-Christian relations Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - From the crisis of Zamboanga, the city of the Philippines "destroyed" by Islamic rebels in September 2013, can and must be a hope to improve and develop the Muslim-Christian relations in ...
• 11 September 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 24 Copts appointed in the electoral lists of the Salafi party Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Salafi leader Yasser al-Borhamy announced yesterday that 24 Christian Copts have been included in the electoral lists of the ultraconservative al-Nour Islamist party, also highlightin ...
• 10 September 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese crisis, a delegation of Hezbollah meets with Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, September 9, a delegation of the Shiite Party of Hezbollah, led by the President of the Political Council Ibrahim Amin el-Sayyed met the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai in Bkerk ...
• 10 September 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped; more and more religious victims of road ambushes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Nigerian Spiritan father (Congregation of the Holy Spirit), Fr. Gabriel Oyaka, was kidnapped on September 7 in Kogi State. The priest was traveling in his car along the Okene-Auchi road, on his ...
• 10 September 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Clashes over land concern the Bishops of Bluefields: "there will be no solution if there is violence" Bluefields (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of violence that has intensified recently in the Caribbean region of Nicaragua, the territory of the Vicariate of Bluefields, worries its Pastors. Although the Bishop of Bluefie ...
• 10 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Assault against a military post near the capital, the population takes refuge in the parish Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 September two rebels were killed and three soldiers wounded in an attack against a military post in Kiyenzi, in the municipality of Kanyosha in the province of Bujumbura, the capital of B ...
• 10 September 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop of Rajshahi welcomes Cardinal Filoni: "Communities in jubilation during the Jubilee" Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - "Our people live today in jubilation, what we celebrate is a true Jubilee. We thank the Lord for the gifts he has given to our church, we thank the Holy Father for sending us Cardinal Fernando ...