News

• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Parliament commemorates the Armenian Genocide Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 4 March, the Syrian People's Assembly dedicated a session commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The initiative, promoted in particular by the Syrian Chr ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Meeting between representatives of Hezbollah and the Maronite Church on the election of the President Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting of dialogue to address the crux of the non-election of the President of the Lebanese Republic brought together on Tuesday, March 3 representatives of the Maronite Patriarchate and the S ...
• 5 March 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Church make uncultivated land available to produce food Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The uncultivated lands of dioceses, religious congregations and seminaries of Kenya will be used to produce food. This is what Fr. Celestino Bundi, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ( ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Prayer for the sick is a crime Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The provincial authorities of Savannakhet have established that "the religious ceremony to pray for the healing of the sick, in accordance with their religious worship, is a violation of Art ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "God did not create borders": for 65 years a Mass for brotherhood between Chile and Argentina Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand Chileans and Argentines met again at the foot of the "Christ of Tromen", in the province of Neuquén (Argentina-Chile border), to attend Mass which every year, for 65 yea ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The appeal of 450 thousand working children: "We do not want to be exploited" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the exploitation of minors; the defense of labor as an educational and dignified factor for the human being; the problem of working conditions of boys, girls and adolescents, ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic communities pray for the persecuted Christians in the Middle East and around the world Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer vigil with Eucharistic adoration for the persecuted Christians around the world, especially for Christians in Syria and Iraq, was held in various Chinese Catholic communities on ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Peter the Apostle" Seminary in Bangalore htne s tmene st mat eenstenjene dstne ste Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 3, 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Joseph Benedict Mathias, Jesuit (SJ) as Rector of the "St. Pe ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Nearly half a million children will be vaccinated against polio Havana (Agenzia Fides) - From 1962, when polio was eliminated in Cuba to 2014, about 83 million doses of vaccine have been administered in the Country. Now, in this time of year the first of two stages of the National Ca ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The "rebels" say no to truce in Aleppo. Bishop Abou Khazen: powers from outside plan our torture Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The refusal of the anti-Assad forces to humanitarian truce in Aleppo proposed by the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura is "a serious matter" and proves once again that the Syrian conflict "will not end ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of Bishops Emeritus Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From March 23 to 27, the first Meeting of Bishops Emeritus of Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Department of Ecclesial Communion and Dialogue of the Episcopal Council Latin Ameri ...
• 4 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops of Nigeria and Cameroon together in assisting refugees fleeing Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conferences of Nigeria and Cameroon work together to provide assistance to thousands of Nigerians who fled to Cameroon fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. This was revealed by His Ex ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "The seven swords that pierce Mary's heart in Myanmar" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There are "seven swords that pierce Mary's heart in Myanmar", said Cardinal Charles Maung Bo presiding over the Mass at the National Marian Shrine in Nyaung Lay Bin. As reported to Fides, speaki ...
• 3 March 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA – Towards CAM 5: Continental Meeting of the PMS America Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the American continent is taking place in Cuba. According to the program sent to Fides, the National Directors w ...
• 3 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros meets the families of 21 martyrs; another Copt beheaded in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II will meet today, Tuesday, March 3, the families of 21 Coptic Christians killed in Libya by terrorists linked to the Islamic State (Is). This is what official ...