News

• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The IDPs in Maiduguri celebrate Christmas among hope and fears of suicide bombs Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri has been under siege for quite some time now with IDPs fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. This is what was experienced in Maiduguri, capital city of Borno State, ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential election campaign, while the Catholic Church is preparing itself for the Pope's visit Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to reform the presidency and introduce a new constitution if he is re-elected for a third term in the presidential election to be held o ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Iranian aid convoys for Iraqi Christians ready to leave Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian aid convoys await the entry permit from the government in Baghdad to enter Iraqi territory and to be distributed among the Christian communities that have suffered ethnic-religious cleans ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "A sad and uncertain Christmas", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A sad Christmas is what was celebrated in Malawi, reports to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who for decades has been engaged in the African country. "What I want ...
• 23 December 2014
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 14, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Michel Coppin, SDS (Society of the Divine Savior) as National Dir ...
• 23 December 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Resignation of the Archbishop of Dakar and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dakar (Senegal) by His Eminence Cardinal Théodore-Adrien Sarr, in accordance ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the Diocese of Kuzhithurai and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 22, 2014 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Kuzhithurai (India) with territory taken from the diocese of Kottar, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Madu ...
• 23 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Accomplice of a gang specialized in the kidnapping of Coptics arrested Sohag (Agenzia Fides) - Mina Zaghloul Hanna comes from a Coptic Christian family and was arrested in recent days by the police in Sohag because considered an accomplice of a gang specialized in kidnapping wealthy Copts o ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - At Christmas, the "Day of good governance": Christians approve New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has proclaimed December 25 "Day of good governance": it will be celebrated at a national level as a time when institutions, citizens, associations and believers of all re ...
• 23 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - State and Church work together to help the people of Lake Turkana Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have entered into a memorandum of understanding on service delivery on provision of basic amenities such as health services and water in the county", said His Exc. Mgr. Dominic Kimengich, Bi ...
• 23 December 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and government for the common good and peace of the country Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On December 22, the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina (CEA) paid a visit to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (see Fides 17/12/2014). The ...
• 23 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America where to exercise the priestly ministry Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Over the last 24 years, 47 attacks against members of the Catholic Church have been committed, of whom 45 are minor offenses and 2 correspond to priests who have disappeared. These data indi ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - In the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Christmas will be a holiday, in solidarity with Christians Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has proclaimed December 25 a holiday in order to express the solidarity of the institutions and the whole society towards Christians, on ...
• 23 December 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Entrepreneurial initiatives for poor women San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest national census of households, the unemployment rate in Costa Rica has always been much higher among women than men, by a margin of 3%. In addition, 43.3% women-headed h ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Share of government jobs reserved for minorities: still an illusion Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Many state offices in Pakistan do not comply with the requirement to reserve a share of 5% of government jobs to religious minorities: is the complaint made by lawyer Mushtaq Gill, claiming of ha ...