News

• 4 February 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The three missionaries killed in 1991 will be beatified because they were close to the poorest Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican announced that Polish Order of Friars Minor Conventual Michael Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strazalkowski, along with Italian diocesan priest Father Alessandro Dordi, were killed "in hatre ...
• 4 February 2015
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops send their best wishes to the newly-elected President: "Work to strengthen national unity" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Newly-elected President Edgar Lungu has to work to strengthen national unity, threatened by party divisions and tribalism". This is the meaning of the declaration of the Episcopal Conference of ...
• 4 February 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The victims of the Genocide will be proclaimed saints by the Armenian Apostolic Church on April 23 Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church is preparing to recognize the sanctity of the victims of the Armenian Genocide with a solemn liturgy, scheduled for April 23 at the Patriarchal See of the Catholicos ...
• 3 February 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Card. Maradiaga supports the "Plan de la Alianza para la Prosperidad" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Card. Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has assured the support of the Catholic Church regarding the "Plan de la Alianza para la Prosperidad" (PAP) which involves ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 12, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Bernardino Ne Ne, of the diocesan clergy of Loikaw as National D ...
• 3 February 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops: "safe and humane conditions for refugees" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Offer asylum seekers the status of "refugee" and ensure "safe and humane conditions" to those who arrive as immigrants in their countries: is what the Bishops of Papua New Guinea and the So ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Jordanian Minister: satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The activities of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) "have nothing to do with Islam, and the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity, while the Zionist polici ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Pope's letter to the Archbishop of Palo: "I will never forget Tacloban" Palo (Agenzia Fides) - " I thank you too, wholeheartedly, for the witness of faith and endurance which your people showed me in the midst of their trials. I will never forget this and I will keep them in my prayers" says ...
• 3 February 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Auxiliary Bishop: we do not negotiate any truce, we want an open dialogue with all San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Solve violence with violence does not work", said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, referring to the method that the authorities want ...
• 31 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Four churches attacked in Mérida Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Four Catholic churches were hit by petrol bombs and even the Apostolic Nuncio, Aldo Giordano, who is visiting the city of Mérida is the target of these attacks. The incident occurred yesterday ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition and armed conflicts threaten the lives of thousands of children Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - More than 38 000 Somali children are at serious risk of starvation in the Country which continues to be battered by war. Statistics, based on the latest UN figures, reveals that after three ye ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Entire populations deprived of basic health services: commitment to the re-opening of the hospital in Lunsar Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - With its 10,510 cases of Ebola (3,199 deaths), Sierra Leone remains the country hardest hit by the virus. However, the number of new cases per week continues to decrease fortunately. But beside ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ensuring security and justice for minorities": New Report by Human Rights Watch Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan’s government should ensure the security of the country’s religious minorities from judicial injustice and attacks by militants: is what is written in the new international Report ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Christians in the Islamist electoral list. The spokesman of the Salafi: we are obliged by law Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of Coptic Christians in the lists of the Salafist al-Nour Party is a "necessary act" required by the electoral law, and falls within the pre-constitutional requirements that political ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - First fruits of the commitment of the Jesuits in the field of education Dili (Agenzia Fides) – There are hundreds of young Timorese who are eager to study and have a higher education: the Education Project of the Jesuits in East Timor, including two education institutions are valuable reso ...