News

• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “Where are you, perpetrator of violence in Central Africa?” demands the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “Where are you?”. The question posed by God after the disobedience of Adam and Eve, addressed to all humanity, is referred to the situation in the Central African Republic by Archbishop Dieud ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Torreón calls for “more proposals and less protests to achieve peace” Torreón (Agenzia Fides) – “More proposals and less protests, to restore peace” Bishop José Guadalupe Galván Galindo of the diocese of Torreón, Coahuila (Mexico), urged the diocese community, preparing to celebr ...
• 6 December 2014
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Show everyone “the joy of consecrated life”, use Facebook to foster vocations Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Demonstrate the joy of religious consecrated life, because its source is Christ and His Gospel, and use Facebook to attract young people to consider a religious life: with this proposal Hong ...
• 6 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Artists of different faiths reflect on Saint Francis Xavier Goa (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time artists in Goa of different faiths have come together at an Art Exhibition organised on the occasion of the exposition of relics of Saint Francis Xavier. According to informati ...
• 6 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE – Indian Camillians ready for “mission Ebola” in Sierra Leone New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) – While the Ebola virus continues to spread fear and death, numerous volunteers are putting their lives at risk and will continue to do so. Among them Camillian religious with the Camillian Ta ...
• 6 December 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty, few infrastructures and precarious preventive measures: fertile terrain for Chikungunya virus Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Cases of the Chikungunya virus (acute fever) registered in Venezuela are double those found in 37 other countries. According to the All-American Health Organisation, the pandemic can be consid ...
• 6 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “Corruption scandal consequences ever more serious” missionary says Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - “In a poor country the consequences of bad government and corruption are terrible” Italian Monfort missionary p. Piergiorgio Gamba informs Fides about the consequences of the so-called Cas ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace talks resume December 10 Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – The Colombian government and FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Forces) will resume peace talks on 10 December. The announcement was made yesterday from Cuba in a joint statement by delegations of ...
• 5 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Missio Christmas Campaign for Asia Bibi Achen (Agenzia Fides) - Missio-Achen, the German section of the Pontifical Mission Societies, has launched a Christmas Campaign of prayer and solidarity in aid of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman, married and mot ...
• 5 December 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Patriarch Grégoire III: al Azhar Conference “fundamental event”. Islamist ideology harms both Christians and Muslims Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – The Conference held at al Azhar University “represented a fundamental event, never before has such clear condemnation of Islamist extremism and terrorism been voiced by such an authoritativ ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA – Schools closed, no lessons: Ebola stops education Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone at least 5 million children are kept away from school because of the presence of the Ebola virus. According to a study by World Business Group for Education ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 88,000 persons displaced by guerrilla violence; no words describe the tragedy and horror Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) –At least 88,500 people have been displaced in the areas of Beni and Walikale, in North Kivu province (east DR Congo). They are fleeing violence from the Alied Democratic Forces (ADF), an arme ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – Bishop of Kakamega resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 5 December 2014, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kakamega (Kenya), presented by Bishop Philip Sulumeti, in confor ...
• 5 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – Electoral certificate renewal: Bishops speak out Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) – The news that renewal of electoral certificates could close on 31 December, is causing long lines in front of CSE, Supreme Electoral Council offices. General elections in Nicaragua are sched ...
• 5 December 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN – First baby arrives in MSF new maternity centre in Kabul Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – In Afghanistan hardly anyone can afford private medical care, most pregnant mothers have their babies at home and the absence of specialised medical assistance can raise problems and deliveries ...