News

• 25 February 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christian villages attacked: more than 100 hostages in the hands of the jihadists; Archbishop Hindo denounces the "wretched" choices of the West Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 120 and 140 Assyrian Christians held hostage by jiahdists of the Islamic State who in the night between Sunday 22 and Monday, February 23 launched a large-scale attack against ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards a more "human" prison system Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Definitely something is changing in the prison system in Malawi" says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary, commenting on the President's speech to the 731 new prison guards at the end ...
• 25 February 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Release of kidnapped priest: the Church thanks the Prime Minister New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Delhi, His Exc. Mgr. Anil Couto, has publicly thanked the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his commitment in the release of the Indian Jesuit Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, wh ...
• 25 February 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mobilization for political Reform and transparent elections continues Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The "Coalition for Political and Democratic Reform for Transparent Elections", promotes today, Wednesday, February 25, in Brasilia, three important events for the mobilization in support of the ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian archaeological area risks demolition, Coptic monks lie down in front of bulldozers Fayyum (Agenzia Fides) - The project to build a road that should unite the city of Fayoum to an oasis area crossing the territories around the Coptic monastery of St. Macarius, threatens an archaeological area that stret ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Islamic State jihadists attack Christian villages along the river Khabur Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) – In the early hours of yesterday morning, Monday 23 February, more than 40 pick-up vehicles carrying jihadist militia of the so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked several Christian villages al ...
• 24 February 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Growing tension in the capital, Cardinal Urosa denounces murder of 3 students Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, denounced the death of three young men in the Venezuelan state of Táchira. He did so at the end of the 6th Archdiocesan Youth March, h ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The government of India does not intend to pass any anti-conversion law New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The Indian government will never approve the controversial “ghar wapsi”, ceremonies of “reconversion” to Hinduism, organised by Hindu extremists, which in recent months have involved ...
• 24 February 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – First step for a representative of the Catholic Church at the African Union Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Berhanu Tamene Woldeyohannes has been appointed head of the office for relations between SECAM (Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) and the African Union in Addis A ...
• 24 February 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA – Drug to cure Ebola: positive effects on a few patients but research must continue Guéckédou (Agenzia Fides) – The first results of clinical tests with the experimental anti-viral drug Favipiravir to fight Ebola reveal that the drug can reduce mortality in patients with low levels of the virus in t ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops issue “Oratio imperata” for peace in Mindanao Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Philippines have launched an Oratio Imperata for peace in Mindanao. Aware of the difficult moment the country is living following the massacre on 25 January in Mamasapano, o ...
• 24 February 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Campaign to help children in Tipnis suffering from malnutrition and poverty Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Bread shared for the life of the world", the Catholic Church in Cochabamba proposes to collect funds on the 5th Sunday of Lent, 22 March, to purchase medicines and food sup ...
• 24 February 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - “Our country can be compared to a desert, where we must combat the temptations of the devil” says Archbishop Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “The crisis which grips our country is a consequence of human weakness and human incapacity to open our hearts to the Lord’s multiple calls to conversion” Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ – Courses to start soon at Erbil Catholic University Erbil (agenzia Fides) – The year 2015 is to be the year when the first courses start at the Catholic University in Erbil, a college strongly desired by the Chaldean Catholic Church also as a form of tangible assistanc ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA – Lay volunteers experience Mission on the Island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) – From 13 January to 9 February “Volunteers of West Lessinia” lived an important experience of missionary work on the remote Island of Flores in Indonesia. “The charisma were many and dive ...