News

• 11 May 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops' Letter for the "Pacific Games": Sport, a tool for growth Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church recognises sport to be one of the great institutions of our society that helps individuals realise their human potential and builds up the bonds of the community, foste ...
• 11 May 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: politics and diplomacy is needed for peace in the Middle East, not military intervention Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East crisis haunts the peoples of Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Yemen who "suffer the violence of war" and "aspire to fair, global and lasting peace". But the advent of peace is only pos ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Salafi leaders: let us close all the churches in the Country Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - We have to close all Christian churches scattered on the Algerian territory, and turn them into mosques, where possible. This is the proposal launched by the Algerian Salafist leader Abdel Fatta ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – There are already more than 50,000 Burundian refugees in neighboring Countries Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Burundi, the protagonist of one of the best reintegration programs for refugees in recent years, sees again part of its population seeking refuge abroad because of the political crisis linked ...
• 8 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionary dimension and social problems: meeting of the clergy of Patagonia Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary dimension of the Church, vocations, the bicentenary of the independence of Argentina and the possible visit of Pope Francis in the Country, were the topics of the VI Meeting of ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Erection of the "Don Settimio Ferrazzetta" inter-diocesan Seminary in Bissau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, erected the "Don Settimio Arturo Ferrazzetta" Major Seminary in Bissau, diocese of ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 March 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed rev. George Ajana Olusegun of the diocesan clergy of Ekiti as National Di ...
• 8 May 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew convenes the second Summit of Halki on environment Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, convened the Summit of Halki II on environment and ecology, which from 8 to 10 June will be hosted by the Theological Institu ...
• 8 May 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - One hundred immigrants in one day: the flow does not stop, and mostly affects families McAllen (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the flow of Central American migrants who cross the border has declined compared to last year, this does not mean it has stopped" emphasized the Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville, H ...
• 8 May 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Vaccinations against measles for hundreds of thousands of children Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - At the same time as relief supplies arrive, UNICEF is also partnering with the Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population and the World Health Organization in an emergency vaccination drive, a ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped priest released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Innocent Umor, the Catholic priest kidnapped in the early hours on May 4 in his parish in Ikanepo, in the diocese of Idah, in Kogi State, in central southern Nigeria (see Fides 07/05/2015) has ...
• 8 May 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Village of Harmony has been giving an example of "life-in-dialogue" in southern Philippines for 25 years Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The Village of Harmony has been giving an example of "life-in-dialogue" for 25 years in southern Philippines. It was founded in 1990 by a group of Christians and Muslims who, some years before ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Difficult negotiations between the government and opposition to overcome the political crisis Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Protests in Burundi against incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza, who intends to stand for election on 26 June for a third term, continues. "So far we have counted fifteen dead in recent clas ...
• 8 May 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo: in dirty wars in the Middle East there are those who exploit the suffering of Christians Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are under bombs every day. I think many Christians will flee from Aleppo and seek shelter in the coastal area, but they will do it when schools and universities close, after the exams. In the ...
• 7 May 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops ask for the feast of the "Lebanese Martyrs" to be restored Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Even the Maronite Bishops ask for the "feast of the Lebanese Martyrs" to be restored, celebrated on May 6 to commemorate the Lebanese nationalists killed in Beirut on May 6, 1916 on the orders of ...