News

• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Zacatecas: The closure of mines is everyone’s problem Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - The social situation in the region of Zacatecas is very tense due to the layoff of about 400 workers in the mines of a large Canadian company in Peñasquito. According to an official report of ...
• 19 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: also poverty destabilizes the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Even poverty and deprivation "are destabilizing" the Middle East, because "there cannot be peace where there is underdevelopment". With these words, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai pointed ...
• 19 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Year of the poor" and new evangelization: Bishops in assembly after the Pope's visit Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Philippines gathered in Manila for the Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference. As Fides learns, the meeting will last until January 22 and the new evangelization and the " ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - New cabinet of Haiti to be sworn in today Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the new government of Haiti should swear in today, Monday, January 19, at 4 pm (local time), as announced by President Michel Martelly last night. The President had promi ...
• 17 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Conversions and forced marriages legitimized by the High Court Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Protest and disappointment among the Hindu and Christian religious minorities after a judgment of the High Court of Sindh province, in the south of Pakistan: the court has effectively legitimize ...
• 17 January 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mukasa Zuza dies in a car accident Mzuzu (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Joseph Mukasa Zuza (59 years old), bishop of the Diocese of Mzuzu (Malawi) and President of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi, tragically died in a car accident on January 15th. The communi ...
• 17 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop violent groups", said Bishop Gallardo Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Veracruz, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Felipe Gallardo Martin del Campo, S.D.B. said that the authorities have the "terror" of receiving accusations by the National Human Rig ...
• 17 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - With Patriarch Mathias’ visit, evidence of "ecclesial mediation" on the controversial Ethiopian dam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The visit to Egypt by Abuna Mathias I, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia ended on 16 January. In the six-day stay in Egypt, the Primate of the Church of Ethiopia - who had been invited ...
• 17 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Pope shows deep compassion for the victims of the Typhoon Palo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a very touching moment, a moving celebration. Pope Francis showed deep compassion with the victims of the typhoon, during the Holy Mass celebrated, in adverse weather conditions, at Tacloba ...
• 16 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The New Testament in Tsotsil language in the pipeline San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Biblical Pastoral Care of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM), led by Mgr. Florencio Armando Colin, went to the diocese of San Cristobal de Las Cas ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The importance of "true hospitality" towards refugees Juba (Agenzia Fides) - During a recent visit to the region of South Sudan, still in conflict, His Exc. Mgr. Daniel Adwok, Auxiliary Bishop of Khartoum, stressed the importance of education and hospitality towards refugee ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Assembly of Catholic Bishops discusses support for Christian schools Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 and 14 January, the periodic meeting of Catholic Bishops in Egypt took place in the district of Maadi. The meeting was held under the presidency of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaa ...
• 16 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Necessity to re-evangelize families: the Pope encourages them to be "living school of the Gospel" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's message encourages, inspires and challenges families in the Philippines to be 'home and school' of the Gospel". This is what Rene Bullecer, lay Catholic, national director of the "Hum ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Malnutrition, trauma, violence: urgent medical assistance to the survivors of the attack committed by Boko Haram Baga (Agenzia Fides) - In the wake of a major attack carried out by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria, a team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is assisting survivors who ha ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Thousands of displaced and deaths because of torrential rains Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people have been displaced and many have died as torrential rain continues in Mozambique. This is what is reported in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by Radio Mozambique. Some peop ...