News

• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Even two Westerners among the Shabaab killed in an assault on a military camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan military announced the killing of 11 Somali militants of Al Shabaab, who were part of a commando of 100 men who in the early hours of Sunday, June 14 attacked a military camp in Lumu, ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian Ambassador to the Holy See: Al Sisi has invited Pope Francis to Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has officially invited Pope Francis to make a visit to Egypt. This is what H. E. Ms. Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt ...
• 13 June 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Thousands of Christian homes taken by deception Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - With the complicity of corrupt officials, individual impostors and organized groups of fraudsters have managed in recent years to acquire illegal possession of thousands of houses belonging to C ...
• 13 June 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A card to distinguish true priests from false priests Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A card for the priests of the ecclesiastical provinces of Tlalnepantla and Mexico will be issued in order to distinguish true priests from false priests and to fight the scams perpetrated by ...
• 13 June 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - National Week of the Migrant: Letter of Bishops to 3 million Peruvians abroad Lima (Agenzia Fides) - During the celebration of the National Week of the Migrant (from 15 to 21 June), the Bishops of Peru, through the commission for human mobility, sent a letter to all the countrymen who are outside ...
• 13 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Still no contact with the kidnappers of the priest kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ekiti has asked the faithful not to enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of Fr. Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict of Ido-Elkit (in south-west Nigeria), seized on ...
• 12 June 2015
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni: "Today the Church in Poland needs to continue on the missionary path" Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Poland today needs to continue on the missionary path, just like Holy Pope John Paul II, who with his 'Redemptoris Missio' gave renewed impetus to the whole Church. And his word an ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Director of the PMS: "Farmers and religious minorities abandoned by the Indian government" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A year after its election, the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has abandoned farmers, the backbone of the Indian economy, and granted a free hand to extremist groups who ...
• 12 June 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are concerned about the new poor", said Mgr. Ojea, head of Caritas Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is concerned about the situation of poverty in the country, after the controversy following the statements of President Cristina Kirchner, according to which the figures indicate ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "let us avoid repeating the language of those who want to destroy the family" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 June the preparatory meeting for the Synod on the family to be held in October in Rome was held in Accra (Ghana). According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, the meeting, entitled ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - President Assad meets the Patriarch and the Synod of Syrian-Orthodox Bishops Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received members of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church yesterday, Thursday, June 11, in Damascus, who in these days under the leadership of Patriarch ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Gandhinagar and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 June 2015, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar (India), by His Exc. Mgr. Stanislaus Fernandes, S.I., in accordance ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN representative offers himself as a mediator in the national dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Martin Kobler, has offered to mediate in the national dialogue (see Fides 02/06/2015) initiated by President Josesph Kabila in view of the upcom ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Parolin inaugurates a new church for the Catholics of the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic church dedicated to Saint Paul was inaugurated today, Friday, June 12, in Mussaffah, in the presence of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of State. The day before, th ...
• 11 June 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - Five years of continuous Eucharistic adoration have strengthened faith and mission Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - For five years, 24 hours a day, without interruption, the faithful of the parish of Corpus Christi of Liao Ning, in mainland China, alternate with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. For t ...