News

• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Archbishop of Bangui pays a visit to former Seleka rebels again Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – On Christmas Eve His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, went to the reception camps of former Seleka guerrillas near the capital of the Central African Republic. The deleg ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 December 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Saw Yaw Han, Rector of the Major Seminary in Yangon as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Yangon (Myanmar), assigning him the ti ...
• 30 December 2014
  VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to information in our possession, during 2014, 26 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide, three more compared to 2013. For the sixth consecutive year, the place most affecte ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-terrorism Committee: no religious minority representatives Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities are targeted by terrorist groups, but there is not even a member belonging to minority religious communities (Christian or Hindu) in the Committee formed by the Prime Mini ...
• 29 December 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an ad ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Security measures strengthened for the Coptic Christmas celebrations Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A special plan to ensure security for the upcoming Christmas celebrations for Coptic Christians was developed in detail during a meeting of the heads of the police and security apparatus, convened ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The IDPs in Maiduguri celebrate Christmas among hope and fears of suicide bombs Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri has been under siege for quite some time now with IDPs fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. This is what was experienced in Maiduguri, capital city of Borno State, ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential election campaign, while the Catholic Church is preparing itself for the Pope's visit Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to reform the presidency and introduce a new constitution if he is re-elected for a third term in the presidential election to be held o ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Iranian aid convoys for Iraqi Christians ready to leave Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian aid convoys await the entry permit from the government in Baghdad to enter Iraqi territory and to be distributed among the Christian communities that have suffered ethnic-religious cleans ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "A sad and uncertain Christmas", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A sad Christmas is what was celebrated in Malawi, reports to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who for decades has been engaged in the African country. "What I want ...
• 23 December 2014
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 14, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Michel Coppin, SDS (Society of the Divine Savior) as National Dir ...
• 23 December 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Resignation of the Archbishop of Dakar and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dakar (Senegal) by His Eminence Cardinal Théodore-Adrien Sarr, in accordance ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the Diocese of Kuzhithurai and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 22, 2014 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Kuzhithurai (India) with territory taken from the diocese of Kottar, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Madu ...
• 23 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Accomplice of a gang specialized in the kidnapping of Coptics arrested Sohag (Agenzia Fides) - Mina Zaghloul Hanna comes from a Coptic Christian family and was arrested in recent days by the police in Sohag because considered an accomplice of a gang specialized in kidnapping wealthy Copts o ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - At Christmas, the "Day of good governance": Christians approve New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has proclaimed December 25 "Day of good governance": it will be celebrated at a national level as a time when institutions, citizens, associations and believers of all re ...