News

• 17 February 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Women’s Day in Faisalabad: greater rights and dignity for working women Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – Guarantee healthcare and safety for working women; adopt a code of behaviour of “gender justice” to safeguard women from injustice and abuse; guarantee safe workplaces free of abuse, ha ...
• 17 February 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “Filipinos are the only ones who remain to serve the growing medical needs of our people” says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “Only a few of us remain, just a good group of Filipinos and it is for them that I have stayed” Fides was told by the Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli,. “The ...
• 17 February 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Anti-tetanus vaccine final test: 30% contains birth control factor Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – “No less than 30% of the phials collected during the recent anti-tetanus campaign sponsored and promoted by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF, contain HGG” said a statement issued ...
• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 21 Copts kidnapped and murdered by jihadists in Libya are “martyrs for the faith” says Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – At the news of the massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts decapitated in Libya by jihadists affiliated with the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Patriarch of Alexandria of Coptic Catholics, Ibrahim Isaa ...
• 16 February 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For 20 years a group of women has offered railway-line assistance to emigrants travelling towards the United States Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) – “These women known as 'La Patrona' group counteract the selfishness, pride and greed of politicians and government which has produced chaos and forced people to move away in order to survi ...
• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - March against Boko Haram; Christians call nation to unite Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Anti-Christian violence which affected the Catholic community in Nigeria in January has the same roots as Boko Haram activity now threatening Niger, Fides learned in a message from the Groupe ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Prayers for a dying woman: five Pastors charged with “abuse of medical profession” ASIA/LAOS – Prayers for a dying woman: five Pastors charged with “abuse of medical profession” Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – Five Christian pastors, leaders of five different communities, have been charged by th ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA – New Archbishop of Samarinda appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 16 February 2015, has appointed Archbishop of Samarinda (Indonesia) Mons Yustinus Harjosusanto, M.S.F., until now Bishop of Tanjung Selor. (SL) (Agenzi ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Expectation for appeal verdict for the murderer of governor Taseer ASIA/PAKISTAN – Expectation for appeal verdict for the murderer of governor Taseer Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The High Court of Islamabad, after its last hearing suspended judgement regarding the case of Mumtaz Q ...
• 16 February 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Ten years ago the assassination of Sr Dorothy Stang, a seed which is bearing copious fruit Balsas (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Brazil marked the 10 anniversary of the death of Sister Dorothy Stang and her dedication to the evangelization of the peoples of Amazonia. "Her humble, silent and almost ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Mosul jihadist “patrols” ban Saint Valentine Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – In the days leading up to February 14, St Valentine's Day, Service Utility Vehicles and pick-ups driven by IS jihadist activists patrolled the town’s busiest market and shopping areas using ...
• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – Chaos in Parliament; after 20 years of democracy the nation deserves better the Catholic Bishops say Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference is concerned about recent events in Parliament on occasion of the President’s address on the State of the Nation” says a statement se ...
• 14 February 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Testimony from Niamey: A source of inspiration for peaceful co-existence! Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Nicolas Ayouba, Superior of the Vice Province of West Africa of the Redemptorists, sent a letter to Fides with comments of a journalist from Niger, which we publish below: A source of ins ...
• 14 February 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Uncertain future after Nepal fails to agree on constitution Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Constituent Assembly of Nepal failed to agree and approve a draft of the new constitution and the deadline was January 22: This step opens a future of uncertainty and instability and gener ...
• 14 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government: the fate of the Copts kidnapped in Libya remains unclear Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While the jihadists of the Libyan branch of the Islamic State take control of the city of Sirte, the fate of 21 Christians kidnapped in Libya and held hostage remains unclear. This is what the Egy ...