News

• 5 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New massacres in Beni, the people are exasperated and protest in the streets Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Massacres in Beni, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo continue, despite the visit of President Joseph Kabila in the city in order to reassure the people, terrified by the violence ...
• 4 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Christian Sawan Masih, on death row for blasphemy, prays and remains hopeful Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sawan Masih, a Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy, who since 2014 has been on death row in the prison of Faisalabad, remains confident about his release: this is what the Christian Joseph ...
• 4 November 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: "With silence, the government becomes an accomplice in the attacks on minorities" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new government of nationalist leader Narendra Modi is not openly against minorities, but we are sad and worried about what is happening in India: The government says and does nothing to s ...
• 4 November 2014
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "postpone the African Cup of Nations due to the Ebola situation" Accra (Agenzia Fides) -The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has called on the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to postpone the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) 2015 scheduled for next year in Morocco due ...
• 4 November 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Two thousand secondary school teachers gathered for the XII Education Forum Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - There will be about 2,000 headmasters and secondary school teachers who will gather on November 5 to participate in the XII Education Forum whose theme will be "To educate: a passion which ...
• 4 November 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The comfort of the Church for the victims of the attack in the area of Lake Turkana Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The attack against a police contingent carried out by an armed group in the early morning hours of November 1st in Kapedo, in the Lake Turkana area, in northern Kenya caused 22 victims. Among ...
• 4 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Church of St. Ephrem in Mosul could soon be transformed into a mosque Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the northeastern city of Mosul, Iraq, since June in the hands of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), the Syrian Orthodox church dedicated to St. Ephrem has been emptied and there are rumor ...
• 4 November 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Christian schools subsidized by the State increase Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - There are 55 schools belonging to foundations and institutions related to the Christian communities in Turkey already entitled to receive financial support from the State. Of these, 36 belong to ...
• 4 November 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation of the Bishop of Lugazi and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 November 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Lugazi (Uganda) by His Exc. Mgr. Ssekamanya Matthias, in accordance with canon 401 ...
• 4 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christians burned alive in a brick-kiln on charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian couple, Shahzad 26 years old and Shama 24 years old, were burned to death by a Muslim mob, from five villages in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), who accused them of committing ...
• 3 November 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of Apostolic Vicar of San José del Amazonas Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 1, 2014 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. José Javier Travieso Martín, C.M.F., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Trujillo (Peru) as Apostolic Vicar of San José del ...
• 3 November 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The National Security Council begins San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The "Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Ciudadana y Coexistence" was officially established on October 31, with 70 members, and the work program was decided. There will be meetings every week ...
• 3 November 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops, between the Pope's visit and elections: "The visit will take place without any problems" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our request to the government has always been that the elections should not be held immediately after the Pope's visit to Sri Lanka, because the event could be used politically by stakeholders ...
• 3 November 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: immediately elect a Christian President to save the Lebanese "model" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Only the immediate election of a new Christian President can ensure the continuation of a Lebanese democracy, founded on the sharing of power between Christians and Muslims, blocking the road to ...
• 3 November 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Church encourages the Small Christian communities to strengthen their faith and to proclaim the Gospel Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea encourages parishes to rediscover the "Small Christian Communities" as a tool to strengthen their faith and to proclaim the Gospel in the territory: is what emerged from the ...