News

• 15 December 2014
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE – Card. Sarr launches an appeal for the island of Fogo affected by the erupting volcano Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar (Senegal), has launched an appeal for the people of the island of Fogo, in the archipelago of Cape Verde, hit by a dramatic volcano eruption. "I ...
• 15 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Solidarity towards Christians: the governor of Kirkuk proclaims December 25 a public Holiday Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of the province of Kirkuk, Kurdish Necmettin Karim, proclaimed December 25 a public holiday, to express the solidarity of institutions and the whole society towards Christians, on th ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL – Foreign missionaries in Brazil: socio-cultural immersion before the mission Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On December 12 with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, n.112 edition of the Course of Missionary initiation of the Intercultural Formation Center (Cenfi) concluded. Organized by the Missionary ...
• 15 December 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Memorial Mass for the victims and for peace, a year after the outbreak of the Civil War Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer for the repose of the victims of the civil war and for peace in the Country is celebrated today, December 15, at the Cathedral in Juba, capital of South Sudan, one year after the outbreak ...
• 15 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar: those who commit terrorist acts in the name of Islam cannot be labelled "infidel" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorists yes, infidels no. The University of Al Azhar - universally recognized as the most authoritative theological center of Sunni Islam - in recent days issued a statement to explicitly reaff ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Analysis of the socio-cultural impacts of mining and contribution of missionaries Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - Destruction of nature, the exclusion of indigenous people from social life, human trafficking: these are some of the effects of the extraction of natural resources in South eastern Peru ...
• 13 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - President Barzani listens to minorities: need to review the composition of the Electoral Commission Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani has expressed his full support with regards to the requests to review the composition of the Electoral Commission also str ...
• 13 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church: "Employment Day" for young job seekers Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - More than ten national and multinational companies have joined "Employment Day", the convention organized in Cairo on Saturday, December 13 at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral by the Economic Co ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - SOS of the Bishop on the proliferation of dengue fever Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the growing number of patients with dengue fever, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cúcuta (Colombia), Mgr. Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz, highlighted the situation in this part of the countr ...
• 13 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Conclusion of the 10th "Caravan of hope": 9 missing migrants found Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The tenth caravan of a group of 40 Central American mothers ended on December 7th, who after 17 days of travel managed to find nine migrants. The note sent to Fides reports of cases like th ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - "I walk with you": the Catholic community prepares itself for Christmas Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Catholic communities in mainland China have launched numerous initiatives of charity and spirituality in this Advent season to help the faithful, especially the elderly ...
• 12 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian leaders ask Muslims "for a deliberate and concerted effort" to stop the violence of the Shabaab Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to see a deliberate and concerted effort by our Muslim brothers and sisters. They (Muslim leaders) must move merely beyond condemning the spate of attacks targeting non-Muslims to initi ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch proposes three days of fasting to ask refugees to return to their homes Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Fasting, prayer and penance in the three days before Christmas and the invitation to give up parties with music and dancing at Christmas and New Year: these are the acts of penance that Patriarc ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish historians working to refute reconstructions of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 Ankara (Fides) - The Center for Strategic Research of the New Turkey YTSAM (Yeni Turkiye Stratejik Arastırmalar Merkezi) has commissioned eight Turkish historians to provide materials and useful contributions to refute ...
• 12 December 2014
  AFRICA - The anti-terrorism laws cause concern for the respect of human rights and democracy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Acts of terrorism committed by organizations such as Boko Haram (in Nigeria and Cameroon) and Al Shabaab (in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda) are pushing some African states to adopt specific anti-terror ...