News

• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Caritas Internationalis: solidarity from across the globe, while the dead and missing increase Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Earthquakes in Nepal and initiatives of solidarity from across the globe continue. In a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, Caritas Internationalis reports on the situation and on aid brought in ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/LAOS – The Christians convicted of illegal practice of medicine have appealed against the sentence Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The five Christian church leaders in Laos (Pastors Kaithong, Puphet, Muk, Hasadee and Tiang) sentenced to prison as illegal doctors for praying for healing for a Christian woman who later di ...
• 4 May 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Bishops encourage the President to continue direct contact with people most in need Barahona (Agenzia Fides) - Some Bishops of the Dominican Republic consider the unannounced visits that President Danilo Medina carries out every weekend very positive, because they have a significant impact on productive ...
• 4 May 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni ordains 14 deacons from Africa and Asia: "you must have a missionary heart" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "With your consecration to Christ and the Church, may you never fail the joy and excitement of this moment; always be ready, with the memory of this day, to overcome the difficulties you wi ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Shooting in Bujumbura while protesters make their way to the center of the capital Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In most of the districts of Bujumbura police is firing into the air to quell the demonstrations which have continued for days against the candidature of outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza, i ...
• 4 May 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Talks resume for peace, despite the incidents and the distrust of the Colombians Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian magazine "Semana" reported that, after an Army combat against a group of FARC, the authorities have arrested seven guerrillas in camouflage uniforms, aged between 10 and 17, carryin ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Population left to themselves, we are determined to restore peace" say Christian leaders Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The people of South Sudan are left to themselves, in many parts of the country there is virtual anarchy, with no effective government, denounce South Sudanese Christian leaders in a joint statement ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 10, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed rev. Georgy Kenny, of the clergy of Port Louis (Mauritius) as National ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch opens discussion on the draft Constitution for the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the parliamentary debate on the adoption of the Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I intends to open a free and serene debate on ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders and Christians together for religious harmony in Youhanabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To re-create harmony, security and confidence among the Christians of Youhanabad, the district of Lahore hit by the two recent attacks on Christian churches: is the aim of the meeting organized ...
• 2 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murders of activists and intellectuals: concern of civil society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A long trail of murders of activists and intellectuals are worrying civil society in Pakistan, creating unrest and protests. In past days Waheed-ur-Rehman, 42, an assistant professor at the D ...
• 2 May 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Military offensive to free the province of Nineveh. Chaldean priest: "Christians want to return to their homes" Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced the creation of a joint task force coordination to start military operations aimed at freeing Mosul and Nineveh province, currently in the hands of the ji ...
• 2 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First parish dedicated to Juan Diego Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The first parish outside Mexico dedicated to St. Juan Diego - the young Aztec to whom the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared in 1531 - was inaugurated yesterday in Villa Lugano, a poor neighborho ...
• 2 May 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops' Message for May 1st: "We cannot live with slave labor" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of May 1st, the day dedicated worldwide to the theme of work, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) issued a message to workers to confirm the support of the Churc ...
• 30 April 2015
  AFRICA/BENIN - "Even the pressure of radical Islam financed from abroad is felt in Benin" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Elections were held in a calm atmosphere and everything seems to have gone well, except for some setbacks", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Pascal N'Koue, Archbishop of Parakou and Secretary G ...