News

• 20 October 2014
  VATICAN - Pope Paul VI, "a staunch supporter of the mission ad gentes" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the solemn celebration in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday 19 October for the closure of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis recited the Angelus prayer in the prese ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Rector of the "John Paul II" Major Seminary, in the diocese of Gitega Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Martin Sinumvayaha of the clergy of the Diocese of Ngozi as Rect ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A cassava field transformed into an ebola treatment center Bo (Agenzia Fides) - A few weeks ago it was a cassava field. Today it is a gleaming tented city made up of four huge tents surrounded by smaller tents and brick-built buildings, intersected by orange fences and dotted wi ...
• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh city: prayer and hope for the Vatican-Vietnam diplomatic ties Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung, strengthens our hopes in the future to see full diplomatic relations between the Holy Se ...
• 20 October 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence increases more and more and families are the most affected San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We see that the violence increases more and more (...), the violence we are currently experiencing is even more brutal between security forces and organized crime": these are the worrying ...
• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Laham: 4 thousand displaced Iraqi Christians all want to emigrate to the West Amman (Agenzia Fides) - There are already three thousand Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain who have fled due to the offensive of the jihadists and have found refuge in Jordan, and in the next few ...
• 20 October 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - A hundred thousand on a pilgrimage for the family to the shrine of the first Chilean Saint Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - With the Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago of Chile, His Exc. Mgr. Galo Fernandez on Saturday, October 18, the 24th pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Teresa of the An ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBIA - Elements of the Islamic State and Boko Haram are in Libya, says the Prime Minister Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya there are both elements of the so-called Caliphate or Islamic State or (ISIL/ISIS or Daesh in Arabic) and elements of the Nigerian Boko Haram group. This was stated by the Libyan Prime ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Fair, free and transparent" elections, but not everyone agrees Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "International observers have described the elections as 'fair, free and transparent' but some groups of local observers do not share this point of view" say to Fides Agency sources of the local ...
• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian community prays for ailing Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Prayers continue to pour in for the recovery of Archbishop Mesrob II Matufyan, the Armenian Orthodox patriarch in Turkey who had to withdraw from the duties of the patriarchate due to his illne ...
• 18 October 2014
  VATICAN – Blessed Pope Paul VI: "The love for Missions is love for the Church, love for Christ!" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Love for Missions is love for the Church, love for Christ! A Christian must be open to the spiritual needs of those who do not know Christ, and there are hundreds of millions": these are t ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Family House grows, liaison body between Muslims and Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Family House, liaison body which unites the University of Al Azhar - the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world - and the Christian churches in Egypt, has decided to inaug ...
• 17 October 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We hope peace is near" says Cardinal Salazar Gómez Pereira (Agenzia Fides) - During his visit to the city of Pereira, the Colombian Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, Archbishop of Bogota, spoke of the seriousness of the peace process, hoping that the ELN is able to enter i ...
• 17 October 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - While 805 million people suffer from hunger, 30% of food is wasted Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On October 17, Spain celebrates International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Within the campaign "One Family, food for everyone", Caritas and the NGO Manos Unidas have organized a series o ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The murder of the missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio remains unsolved Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – After three years since the killing of the Italian priest Fausto Tentorio, a missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), killed by a gunman on October 17, 2011, on the ...