News

• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - At least 30 people have died in the guerrilla assault in the town of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 30 people have died and 9 injured in the massacre perpetrated in the night between 15 and 16 October by the Ugandan rebels of the ADF-NALU in a neighborhood of the city of Beni, North Kivu (eas ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Activities and programs for children and adolescents infected with HIV Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - According to the 2011-12 Report on indicators of HIV and Malaria in Tanzania, the prevalence of the AIDS/HIV virus in the African country went from 5.7% in 2007 to 5.1% in 2012. Women contract AI ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church: "Asia Bibi sentenced, but hope is alive" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We must continue to pray and hope for Asia Bibi", after the Lahore High Court upheld the death penalty for the Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010. This was reported to Fides Agency b ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "What does the tetanus campaign hide?" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We want the government to come clean on the ongoing tetanus vaccine campaign" ask the Bishops of Kenya who fear that the prophylaxis hides a campaign of forced sterilization concerning women in ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Torrential rains on refugees, the state of emergency worsens Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday afternoon, October 16 rains intensified in Erbil. Thunderstorms also hit Ankawa, the predominantly Christian suburb of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, where thousands of refugees who ...
• 16 October 2014
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Let us build a "missionary bridge of prayer" for World Mission Day Prague (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the Czech Republic, has launched the initiative to "build a missionary bridge of prayer ...
• 16 October 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti will ask for an extension to the Dominican Republic to regulate the "sans papiers" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, Pierre Duly Brutus, said yesterday in Santo Domingo that his country will ask the Dominican Republic to extend the deadline fixed by the latter so ...
• 16 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Bombing continues, with less intensity", says the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi Benghazi (Agenzia Fides) - "Bombings continue, although with less intensity compared to yesterday" says His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi to Fides Agency, where the forces of General Khali ...
• 16 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A church in Qaraqosh bombed by the anti-Caliphate coalition Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - The bombings carried out in the Nineveh Plain by the US-led coalition against posts of the Islamic State (IS) have hit and devastated the church of the Resurrection, near the town of Qaraqosh, ...
• 16 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi’s death sentence confirmed by the Court of Appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Lahore High Court, the court of second instance, confirmed Asia Bibi's Death sentence, a Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy and sentenced in 2010. This is confirmed t ...
• 16 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishops' strong condemnation regarding the attack against priests and religious women in Lodja Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is unacceptable to blame the church personnel who, faithful to the hierarchy, exercise their pastoral ministry", said a statement from the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of ...
• 15 October 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Elliott Willy Rojas Vargas, of the archdiocesan clergy of San José ...
• 15 October 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Never accept violence as a solution", warns Mgr. Lona Reyes who proposes a prayer campaign Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Arturo Lona Reyes, asked the Bishops of the whole country to hold special prayer days after the massacre of Iguala (i ...
• 15 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Monastery of Mar Behnam profaned by the militiamen of the Islamic State Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the self-proclaimed "Islamic Caliphate" have removed the crosses and burned ancient manuscripts in the ancient Monastery of Mar Behnam, ten minutes from the city of Qaraqosh, ...
• 15 October 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Contacts with the kidnappers of the Polish missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There is an ongoing dialogue with the kidnappers of Fr. Mateusz Dziedzic, the Polish "Fidei Donum" priest, of the diocese of Tarnow, who was kidnapped on Sunday 12 October in Baboua, in the Centr ...