News

• 25 September 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II to the UN: Christians are a "constitutive" part of the Middle East New York City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let me say it once again: Arab Christians are an integral part of my region's past, present and future". This is what the King of Jordan, Abdullah II said in his speech at the 69th UN Gen ...
• 25 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "The Church supports good governance" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church supports good governance and urges the faithful to vote for those who give proof of good governance": says Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai, in a note sent to Fi ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Kidnappings continue to the detriment of the Copts, a dentist kidnapped killed Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – Ehab Karam - a Coptic dentist was killed on Tuesday, September 23 in the province of Assiut, Upper Egypt, after he was abducted by unknown persons, probably for ransom. Karam had been stopped b ...
• 25 September 2014
  AMERICA - Indigenous people continue to be the poorest in Latin America Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent study prepared by the World Bank, a child born in an indigenous place in Latin America is twice as likely to live in poverty and three times to live in a state of poverty com ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA/GHANA - "A fast-growing Country, where one feels the effects of secularization", says the President of the Episcopal Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Ghana is blessed with a population that naturally and easily expresses its belief in God and which seeks to honour him in the variety of religious traditions present in your country", said ...
• 24 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians arrested and beaten by Hindu extremists New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The police of Madhya Pradesh state (Central India) arrested five Christians, near the city of Khargone, accusing them of attracting people to convert to Christianity by offering money. Accordi ...
• 24 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found dead in the river Balsas Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Attorney General of Guerrero state, Mexico, has opened an investigation into the death of the parish priest of Arcelia, Father José Acuña Asención Osorio, whose body was found in the ...
• 24 September 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Severe floods are affecting tens of thousands of new refugees in Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3,000 homes have been destroyed by torrential rains that have recently hit the refugee camps of Nierteti in central Darfur. In the south of the Country, in the camp in Kalma, near Nyala ...
• 24 September 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Church is preparing for the consecration of the new Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In the church of the Holy Family in Kuala Lumpur, the Episcopal ordination of Mgr. Julian Leow, the new Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur will be held on October 6. As reported to Fides by the loc ...
• 24 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops’ warning: "In the face of Boko Haram, the nation is in danger" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of Boko Haram group and other criminal militias, the nation is in danger" warn the Bishops of Nigeria in a statement issued at the end of their second Plenary Meeting, held in Warri ( ...
• 24 September 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Archbishop of Aleppo: for the people, the perpetrators of the raids are certainly not "liberators" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The air raids against jihadi bases in Syria, carried out by the United States with the support of some Arab countries, do not elicit positive expectations among the population of Aleppo in Syria ...
• 24 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Prostitution and abuse of all kinds, in the name of tradition, for devadasi women Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - In the twenty-first century there still remains an ancestral tradition in the Indian state of Karnataka according to which some women, boys and girls of the lowest caste are offered to the Yal ...
• 24 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign 2014: One cannot combat human trafficking without combatting poverty and inequality Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, Sept. 22, the Pontifical Mission Societies of Brazil (PMS) presented, in a press conference, the materials prepared for the Missionary Campaign of the missionary month of October 201 ...
• 24 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: Lebanese Christians and Muslims share the same fate Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "For the good of the nation, as spiritual leaders, our duty is to protect the moral and spiritual values and the fundamental and national constitutional principles". This is what the Patriarch of ...
• 24 September 2014
  VATICAN - Pope's appeal to the countries of Africa affected by the ebola virus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, the Holy Father launched the following appeal: "My thoughts now go to those countries in Africa that are suffering because of the outbreak of ebola. ...