News

• 10 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Mombasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 December 2014 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Martin Musonde Kivuva, Bishop of the Diocese of Machakos as Archbishop of Mombasa (Kenya). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/12/2014) ...
• 10 December 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Church-Government meeting on the Interoceanic Canal Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the march scheduled for today, December 10, against the construction of the Interoceanic Canal between the Pacific and the Atlantic, which would expel thousands of farmers from the ...
• 10 December 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY – NGO together for the rights of people with disabilities Milan (Agenzia Fides) - In the world one billion people are disabled, 80% of them live in developing countries. Of these, 93 million are children, who in poorer countries have very little chance of access to schooling be ...
• 10 December 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Yolanda" survivors now helping "Hagupit" victims Palo (Agenzia Fides) - Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda are now helping those affected by Typhoon Hagupit (also called Ruby): So says a statement from Caritas of the Philippines sent to Agenzia Fides. From the Archdiocese of ...
• 10 December 2014
  ASIA/THAILAND - "Houses of Hope" for abandoned children Pathum Thani (Agenzia Fides) - In a letter sent to Agenzia Fides, Father Adriano Pelosin, PIME missionary who has been in Thailand for 36 years talked about the work carried out in the Houses of Hope where abandoned chil ...
• 10 December 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Elections are an opportunity for the Country and not a step back" warn the Bishops Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the fact that the Burundians are getting used to renewing the institutions through elections, but there are signs that raise serious concerns on the fair and peaceful conduct of ...
• 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 ...