News

• 5 January 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 2015: "We are one family" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - National Migration Week 2015 is taking place from January 4–10, organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’(USCCB), to raise awareness about the hardships faced by migrants. "T ...
• 5 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Christian Schools welcome the Iraqis children who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 7 thousand Christian refugees who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain that have found refuge in Jordan, more than 1,400 are school age children. Now, thanks to the involvement of Caritas J ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA - Drastic increase of children who try to escape from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Children in Central America find themselves living in one of the most dangerous places . Children under 18 years of age are more likely to die murdered more than any other cause. According to the ...
• 2 January 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Corruption and widespread immorality threaten the nation", say the Bishops Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption, widespread of drugs, immorality are the evils that threaten the nation, according to a New Year Message from the Bishops of Ghana. The message, signed by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei-Bon ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The street is my family": Christmas season: love for children, youth and marginalized people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and vio ...
• 2 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Grand Mufti of Jordan: the pronouncement of the "Fatwa" is reserved for authorized experts Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Legal opinions and religious edicts pronounced on the basis of the Sharia and Islamic jurisprudence are regulated and cannot be pronounced indiscriminately by unauthorized persons. This is what th ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Stigma and discrimination, Ebola also jeopardizes religious practices Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola will have a long impact in Sierra Leone. The total population is 63.48,350 people. To December 19 the total number of cases recorded were 8880 among suspected, probable and confirmed. Accor ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Anti-Christian attacks: Christian leaders urge the faithful to forgiveness Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "What would Christ have said if there were terror attacks during his time?" ask Christian leaders of Kenya in a joint message on the occasion of Christmas to the faithful still shaken by the att ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Hypothesis of a meeting Aoun-Geagea to overcome divisions among political Christian forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Rumors are circulating in Lebanon about an upcoming meeting between General Michel Aoun and former Falangist Samir Geagea, the leaders of the two main Christian political forces - the Free Patr ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Archbishop of Bangui pays a visit to former Seleka rebels again Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – On Christmas Eve His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, went to the reception camps of former Seleka guerrillas near the capital of the Central African Republic. The deleg ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 December 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Saw Yaw Han, Rector of the Major Seminary in Yangon as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Yangon (Myanmar), assigning him the ti ...
• 30 December 2014
  VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to information in our possession, during 2014, 26 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide, three more compared to 2013. For the sixth consecutive year, the place most affecte ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-terrorism Committee: no religious minority representatives Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities are targeted by terrorist groups, but there is not even a member belonging to minority religious communities (Christian or Hindu) in the Committee formed by the Prime Mini ...
• 29 December 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an ad ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Security measures strengthened for the Coptic Christmas celebrations Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A special plan to ensure security for the upcoming Christmas celebrations for Coptic Christians was developed in detail during a meeting of the heads of the police and security apparatus, convened ...