News

• 10 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appeal of "Justice and Peace" to international donors: "Do not abandon us in time of need" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not abandon Malawi at the time of such a serious situation of need". This is the appeal launched by the Episcopal Commission "Justice and Peace" of Malawi to the Country's international par ...
• 10 December 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Ignace Yussif III at the Synod of the Syro- Catholic Church: let us help to grasp the "signs of the times" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Syrians have suffered persecution and martyrdom "since ancient times". And today, faced with the present situation in the Middle East which causes suffering to the local Christian com ...
• 10 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government is studying the draft electoral law, 24 seats reserved for Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian government has begun the study of the rules with which parliament will be elected in the coming months. According to statements attributed by the Egyptian press to Ibrahim Henaidi, Mi ...
• 10 December 2014
  ASIA/MONGOLIA – First Mongolian deacon: "Immense grace for the Church", says the apostolic vice-Prefect Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - The ordination of the first deacon of Mongolian nationality, 22 years after the rebirth of the Church in the country, "is an immense grace and a priceless gift for the small community of the bapt ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church close to the families of the missing students and engaged in proposing solutions Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Bishops expressed their condolences to Ezequiel Mora, father of Alexander, one of 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, whose remains have been identified by experts (see Fides 10/1 ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – Archbishop of Luanda appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 8 December 2014 appointed as Archbishop of Luanda in Angola, Bishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, until now Bishop of Cabinda. (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - On the feast day of Our Lady of Caacupé bishop denounces corruption and drug trafficking Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) – Diffused corruption and its connections with drug trafficking was denounced by the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay, Bishop Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, Bishop ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Young man dies to obtain justice San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – A sad" and "desperate act": said Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of the diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas - Mexico), referring to the tragic gesture of a yo ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Foyer Bethlehem: “giving persons with disabilities what nature and human indifference have denied them” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haïti the cost of living is very high, the country is forced to important everything from abroad. The situation of the people is precarious and living conditions of persons with di ...
• 9 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A Christian woman beaten and humiliated: justice moves Sheikhupura (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the case of a Christian married couple burned alive on 4 November, another serous episode caused concern among the Christians in Punjab: only days ago in the town of Rana, Shiekhup ...
• 9 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Human Rights Day: Bishops focus on minorities, religious, tribals and Dalit New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of Human Rights Day, December 10 “it is necessary to examine the situation of human rights in India and to urge the government to solve various questions demanding a solut ...
• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – After14 years ordination of 9 Indigenous permanent deacons San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – Nine members of the Tzeltales Indigenous peoples were ordained as permanent deacons on 2 December in the community of Guadalupe Paxilhá, Chilo city. The news was announced ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – In Minya Governatorate in 4 years some 120 million Egyptian pounds paid in ransom for kidnapped Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) – In Upper Egypt, systematic kidnapping of persons belonging to the Copt Christian community has become a criminal business: according to information given to the local media by Copt Christian Mi ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – More massacres in Beni area; civil society starts dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “We wish to draw the attention of the international community towards the deadly war and terrorism which is ever more intense in this eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose ...
• 9 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Ankawa thousands of faithful take part in procession for the feast of the Immaculate Conception Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – Thousands took part in a procession on Saturday 7 of December for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which moved through the streets of Ankawa, a mainly Christian suburb of the city of Erbil ...