News

• 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. ...
• 27 March 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "WeCare!" Foundation: support to vulnerable women and marginalized children and young people Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Traditionally the primary emphasis in the parishes in Port Moresby is placed on worship, on the sacraments, on devotional practices", said Fr. John M. Glynn, head of the "WeCare!" Foundati ...
• 27 March 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Group of Spanish Catholic volunteers give support to Nicaraguan children León (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 years ago a group of faithful of a Spanish parish in Madrid traveled to the city of León, Nicaragua. They met malnourished children and families with problems related to alcohol. Faced w ...
• 27 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV has passed away Chicago (Agenzia Fides) - His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East passed away on Thursday morning, March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Patriarch Mar Dinkha was ...
• 27 March 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Delegation of Bishops to visit a detention center for immigrant families San Antonio (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will visit today, Friday, March 27, a detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas, to learn more about t ...
• 27 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the eve of the vote 90% of the areas freed from Boko Haram; "Why was it not done before?" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria to vote tomorrow, March 28, to elect the new President. "The Nigerian press has already made predictions that the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, will get two-thirds of the vo ...
• 27 March 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni returns to Iraq to express the closeness and affection of the Pope to displaced families Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis has expressed his concern for Christian families and other victims of violence who have been expelled from their homes and villages in Iraq, in particular those from Mosul and ...