News

• 23 October 2014
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Reaching out to young people and drawing their attention to the mission of the Church Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - With the objective of reaching the younger generation and drawing their attention to the efforts made by the Church in the mission field, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Slovakia ha ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Church's contribution to the growth of the nation after 50 years of independence Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is part of the Zambian society, and shares the joys and sorrows of the nation. This is why there is great respect, and her influence has grown, thanks to her prophetic voice" ...
• 23 October 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Concerned about "our" problems, while thousands of people die every day Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Obviously World Mission Day in Spain had a shadow of sadness and sorrow: the death of two missionaries and a nurse infected with ebola" recalls the public letter of SCAM ("Servicio Conjunto de A ...
• 23 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Decree of the Chaldean Patriarch on priests and religious expatriates without the consent of their superiors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Before the ordained, the “Priest” announces the offering of his whole life to God and the Church. It is an offering grounded in the obedience to the superiors without any conservation". For ...
• 23 October 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every year 100,000 Christians die because of religious persecution Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Center for the Studies of Global Christianity in the United States estimates that about 100,000 Christians die every year because of their religious beliefs, that is to say one every five min ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/BENIN - New schooling project for 450 children in the north of the Country Sinendé (Agenzia Fides) - The NGO Educo, born from the union of Intervida and Educación Sin Fronteras, has promoted a project of education and improvement of educational institutions in Sinendé, in northern Benin, 564 ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church begins tomorrow Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Forty representatives of the four Catholic dioceses of Algeria will meet in Algiers on Friday 24and Saturday, 25th October for the National Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church. The ...
• 23 October 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks and another 60 girls kidnapped: the possibility of a truce with Boko Haram vanishes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hopes for peace vanishes after 5 people were killed in a bomb attack this morning at a bus station in Azari, in the State of Bauchi (northern Nigeria), and the abduction of 60 girls in the State o ...
• 23 October 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new location of the detention center in San Pedro Sula for the sake of prisoners San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "Five months of work without interruption" says with satisfaction Mgr. Rómulo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F., Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), who hopes for the arrival of other ...
• 22 October 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of "St. John the Baptist" Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 30, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Jules Pascal Zabre of the archdiocesan clergy of Ouagadougou as Recto ...
• 22 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appeal for minorities is shared in civil society New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The recent appeal to the central government and state governments to take "urgent measures to put an end to the orchestrated campaign and motivated by hatred and Violence against religious min ...
• 22 October 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The right to food for 700,000 people suffering hunger: it is not food that is lacking, but justice Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Hunger is not caused by lack of food, but by the lack of justice": this is how the text sent to Fides Agency by local sources begins, which presents the campaign of Caritas in Honduras. "Ca ...
• 22 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious marriage canceled after threats to a young married couple Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian boy from Multan, Akram Masih, was arrested by the police in Multan for having forced a Muslim girl, Maria Bibi, of the District of Shiekhupura, to marry. The police broke into Akram� ...
• 22 October 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - African Catholic Bishops: "Respect democratic turnover" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The closing of borders is not the solution to Ebola", says the final communiqué of the annual coordination meeting of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECA ...
• 22 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola, not only death and suffering: MSF celebrates the thousandth survivor Foya (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, MSF has admitted more than 4,500 patients to its care centres. Among these, more than 2,700 were confirmed as having Ebola. Amidst all the ...