News

• 7 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Education, communication and drug trafficking: the Bishops prepare three pastoral Letters Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With a Mass and greetings from Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia, the Assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) opened yesterday, November 6. ...
• 7 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "We want thorough investigation into the violence against the clergy in Lodja" asks civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - After more than 20 days since the violent act against two priests and a nun, which took place on 12 and 13 October in Lodja in Kasai Oriental Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (s ...
• 7 November 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops in defense of indigenous people appeal to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights Salto del Guairá (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay, through the Indigenous Pastoral, has announced that it will appeal to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights if the State does not ensure th ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches: no one must violate the "status quo" on the Holy Sites of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the worsening of the situation in the Holy City, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement to express their concern about the outbreak of violence and t ...
• 7 November 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops reaffirm: "tetanus vaccination is a program of population control in disguise" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya reiterate their accusations on the campaign of vaccination against tetanus which, they say, hides a program of population control (see Fides 17/10/2014); they also denounce ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - An American arrested for a Bible has been released Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The US citizen Jeffrey Fowle is back home in the United States, after being held in North Korea for six months for leaving a copy of the Bible in a bar. "I had heard about the severe persecution o ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The furniture of Christian homes put up for sale in the markets of Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the markets of Mosul entire areas are now occupied by the furniture and the tools looted in the houses abandoned by the Christians. The looted goods are put on sale at bargain prices. This is r ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishops: "A Church which 'goes forth' to meet the man of our time" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "A Church in communion with God and proclaims the Good News; a Church that goes forth to meet people, to give love and happiness, peace and justice, unity and brotherhood; a Church which is sens ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Justice and Peace Commission: "The government has failed in protecting its citizens" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani government has failed in protecting the right to life of its citizens". This was reported in a statement from the "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan ...
• 6 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - An agreement for the transition has been reached; for the Bishops: a "historic turning point, now let us work for peace" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential elections in Burkina Faso will be held in November 2015. It is one of the main points of the agreement reached yesterday, November 5, between the military that took power after ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Two future Saints for the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Holy Land is preparing for the upcoming canonization of two Blessed: Blessed Mariam Bawardi, known as Mary of Jesus Crucified, and Blessed Maria Alphonsina Ghattas. ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean diocese of Erbil conducts a census of the refugees who fled from the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 10 thousand Christian families who fled Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plain who have found refuge in the suburbs of Erbil and in other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan. Some stat ...
• 6 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Cali is suffering a pandemic of violence", denounces Mgr. Monsalve Mejía Cali (Agenzia Fides) - "Cali is suffering a pandemic of violence", denounced the Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, with regards to the alarming increase in homicides in the region. The poli ...
• 6 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Prayer Vigil for peace in the nation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops and the faithful of about 55 archdioceses, dioceses and apostolic vicariates of Nigeria, are invited to a national prayer vigil which will be held at the National Ecumenical Centre in ...
• 6 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Ecumenical Initiative: 43 hours of fasting and prayer for the 43 students of Ayotzinapa Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - 43 hours of prayer and fasting for 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa (see Fides 10/10/2014) ends today, November 6. The "Ecumenical Day of solidarity" with the families of the missin ...