News

• 16 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More groups commit massacres against civilians in Beni: maybe a new war? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the territory of Beni, which belongs to the province of North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the situation of extreme insecurity is becoming more dramatic and intolerable: m ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation of Bishop of Hyderabad and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 December 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Hyderabad in Pakistan, by His Exc. Mgr. Max John Rodrigues, in accordance with ca ...
• 16 December 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Corruption and intra-party conflicts threaten democracy" say the Christian confessions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We lament at the failure of political leadership in Zambia today. There is far too much hypocrisy and rhetoric. It is for this reason that there is no evidence in the fight against corruption", ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - More than 7,000 Christian refugees from Iraq; Caritas Jordan: "in two months we will not have anymore resources to assist them" Amman (Agenzia Fides) – There are now more than 7000 Iraqi Christians who have fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain and have found refuge in Jordan and the resources available for their assistance will end within two mont ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 28, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed His Exc. Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of El Alto as National Director ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church reminds authorities that they even have to respond to the law for their actions León (Agenzia Fides) - In response to President Enrique Peña Nieto, who a few days ago said that one has to "move past" the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, the Archdiocese of León instead asked the Presid ...
• 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 ...