News

• 23 January 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini Missionaries open a community in Syracuse to welcome migrants Syracuse (Agenzia Fides) - A new missionary community has been opened in Syracuse to welcome migrants who land in Sicily and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinians have the first three sisters who ...
• 23 January 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The phenomenon of children abandoned in the streets and violence increases Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Service for Social Management (Sedeges) of the Government of Cochabamba, in the city there are over a thousand boys, girls and adolescents living on the streets. The problem ...
• 23 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Associations are working on a document on the rights of citizenship Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Associations and movements animated by Coptic Christians who are part of the "Coptic Advisory Council" have announced the imminent publication of a document on the rights of citizenship. The text ...
• 22 January 2015
  VATICAN - Solidarity of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to the Church of Niger Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to pastoral workers and to the faithful of the Catho ...
• 22 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Churches and convents burned, schools and dispensaries closed Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Between Friday 16 and Saturday 17 January, various churches and religious communities in Niger suffered extensive damage because of demonstrators protesting against the publication of the French ...
• 22 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nisman case: Bishops: "the people want the truth" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We feel the need to invite the authorities and all political leaders to make every effort to reach the truth with honesty", said a statement of the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Con ...
• 22 January 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro re-elected President of the Episcopal Conference Lima (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro García Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho was re-elected President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference for the period 2015 to 2018, during the 105th Plenary Assembl ...
• 22 January 2015
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Verdict on the term "Allah": the Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur: "disappointed" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "We are disappointed for the court’s ruling, which, however, was not totally unexpected. However, we hope that something good for our future can be born from this measure: we have faith i ...
• 22 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Anti-Christian Violence: Bishops suspend all activities of the Church Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Niger have suspended "until further notice" all the activities of the Catholic Church (schools, health centers, charitable activities), "following the looting of churches and infra ...
• 22 January 2015
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Niños de Paz project to protect thousands of refugees and displaced children Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - In Central America, unaccompanied boys, girls and adolescents or separated from their families, fleeing from their Countries, are forced to be deprived of education in order to find a pla ...
• 22 January 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Mgr. Zuza was a person of great courage", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "A person of great courage". This is how, in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary remembers His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Mukasa Zuza (59), Bishop of Mzuzu (Malawi) ...
• 22 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II praises the Pope: religions must not offended Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The views expressed by Pope Francis during his recent visit to Asia on the need to reconcile freedom of expression and respect for religions and religious symbols were praised and supported by Kin ...
• 20 January 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Schoolchildren abused of their rights Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Huge uproar has followed the tear-gassing of schoolchildren as they protested the grabbing of their playground in Nairobi yesterday and the incident has sparked the reaction of many Kenyans. A g ...
• 20 January 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Pastoral letter: "Some people are more interested in profit than man himself" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of the Patron of the diocese, Our Lord of Esquipulas, the Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua), His Exc. Mgr. Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, called on the Catholic community to live coh ...
• 20 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA – The men who devastated a church in Delhi are Sikhs: three people arrested New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Three men were arrested by the Delhi police for having committed acts of vandalism in the church of Our Lady of Grace, in the area of Vikaspuri, on January 14. This is confirmed to Agenzia Fid ...