News

• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Submitted a bill to facilitate the immigration of Middle Eastern persecuted Christians Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Two members of the US Congress elected in California have introduced a bill aimed at encouraging immigration to the United States of members belonging to religious minorities threatened with ...
• 30 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 20 victims of the attacks on the churches in Youhanabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There are 20 victims of the attacks on the churches in Youhanabad which occurred on March 15: Yesterday, the Christian community celebrated the funeral of another of the wounded, Shamim Bhatti. M ...
• 30 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram failed to prevent the holding of elections", says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held in a calm manner in Maiduguri, without violence or crisis caused by Boko Haram" says His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, one of ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Minors remain a forgotten Sector of the population Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - In Bolivia there are over 4 million children and adolescents that represent 44% of the population. Unfortunately for many reasons a child continues to be a very vulnerable sector of society, ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - Floods and landslides: 12 dead and thousands displaced, Caritas at work Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) - A group of experts of Caritas and the diocese, led by Mgr. Celestino Aós Braco, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Copiapó, reached the areas affected by landslides and flooding to verify the situation of ...
• 30 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Little Sisters of The Poor gather for last Mass in Cleveland Shaker Heights (Agenzia Fides) – Palm Sunday was the last time that the Little Sisters of the Poor gathered for Mass at their longtime home in suburban Cleveland, in the state of Ohio. The Catholic nuns are leaving bec ...
• 30 March 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisians are proud of the demonstration against terrorism" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday's demonstration joined the Tunisians in making common front against terrorism", said Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Tunisia, where yest ...
• 30 March 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church participates in the mourning for the death of Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church, as a sign of solidarity and closeness with the Assyrian Church of the East, took part in the mourning for the death of Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV. For this reason, it ...
• 28 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas: "There is hope of allowing refugees to return to their homes, but destruction is enormous" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a joy to see the happiness with which refugees welcomed their Bishops who came to visit them", says Fr. Evaristus Bassey, Executive Director of Caritas Nigeria, who is in Rome for the meeti ...
• 28 March 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to the UN: the "Arab Spring" impacted negatively on Christians New York (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "Arab Spring" impacted negatively on the condition of the Christian communities in the Middle East, causing a mass exodus similar to those caused 100 years ago by the massacres of ...
• 28 March 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Humanitarian crisis in Mindanao; a law has been submitted in the Philippine congress on the Muslim region Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Humanitarian crisis looms as thousands flee Mindanao conflict, in southern Philippines. Therefore a ceasefire is what a forum of non-governmental organizations and local associations call for, ...
• 28 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian leaders: a Commission of inquiry regarding the massacre in Youhanabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Political and religious leaders are asking the government in Punjab to set up a special Commission of inquiry regarding the massacre in Youhanabad, which deals with both the terrorist attack on M ...
• 28 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church supports the government in the fight against illiteracy Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Coptic Orthodox Church in charge of services and social activities, signed the protocol of the national project on Friday, March 27 to combat illiteracy prepared by the Egypt ...
• 28 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The denunciation of Bishops after the visit in Texas: "Why imprison the most vulnerable?" Olinda and Recife (Agenzia Fides) - "After this visit, my main question is: why? Why imprison these vulnerable people, young and traumatized mothers who, with their children fled from persecution in their own countries?" ...
• 27 March 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The first house of formation of the Guanellian’s has been inaugurated Ho Chi Minh (Agenzia Fides) - The first house of formation of the Servants of Charity (Guanellian’s) in Vietnam has been inaugurated. As Fides learns, the inauguration took place on March 24 in the district of Go Vap. ...