News

• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations are underway in the Archdiocese of Goa for the exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier, who will be exposed for the veneration of the faithful from 22 November 2014 to 4 Ja ...
• 2 October 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Bishops' message to the Muslim community: "May the example of Abraham bear fruits of mutual respect" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "When those who kill in God's name are engulfed in the horror of terror, we address urgent prayers so that through the example of Abraham, who humbly allows to be guided by the will of God, diver ...
• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Massacre of children in Homs; three Christians kidnapped in the province of Hassaké Homs (Agenzia Fides) - At least 41 children were killed due to the double attack carried out yesterday that devastated the area surrounding a school in Homs, in the urban area controlled by government forces. The massacr ...
• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "With the Rosary, we will overcome the difficulties" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Pray the Rosary incessantly and with faith: is what the Apostolic Vicar of Nepal, His Exc. Mgr. Paul Simick, said to the faithful at the beginning of October, in his message for the month of M ...
• 1 October 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Family Week in Guayaquil, wealth and renewal of society Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "Family Week" is underway in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. Organised for the first time by the Commission for the Family Pastoral of the Archdiocese, the Week takes place from September 29 to ...
• 1 October 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Division is not from God": in march for peace and unity of the country Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - "Our intention is to make people understand that we as Venezuelans cannot live divided, division is not from God, it is of the devil": this are the words with which His Exc. Mgr. Mariano ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Jesuit: "A network of solidarity against the network of terror" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "The network of Islamic jihadism and its international implications should be kept under strict control in the southern Philippines" says to Fides Agency the Jesuit Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, Director ...
• 1 October 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Initiatives and projects for 1400 child workers in Honduras and Nicaragua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,400 Nicaraguan and Honduran children who were working on the streets to help their families, have been reintegrated into the education system through a project sponsored by the Europ ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Closure of the professorship named after Mother Teresa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The academic authorities in India have announced the closure of the chair of teaching in "Health, education and social work", named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in the "Indira Gandhi Natio ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Authorities have threatened to close down another Catholic radio Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The South Sudanese government has threatened to close down the Catholic Church’s "Voice of Hope" FM in Wau, in the west of the Country. According to the Catholic Radio Network (CRN), Western Bahr ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Epidemics and food shortages in refugee camps in Kass, South Darfur Kass (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people living in the camp of El Batari, in Kass, South Darfur, complain of poor health, the spread of diseases and lack of health care by the authorities. According to what was report ...
• 1 October 2014
  VATICAN - The feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, opens the Mission Month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With today's liturgical feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897), proclaimed Patroness of the Missions in 1927 with St. Francis Xavier, October month of the missions begins, whic ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The crisis pushes more and more faithful to religious syncretism" denounces Mgr. Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The political and social crisis that is shaking the Central African Republic as a result of the civil war which broke out in December 2012, is leading several Catholics toward the drift of religi ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: hostility toward the Syrian refugees increases Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The effects of uncontrolled influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon open a disturbing scenario. The concern has reached the warning level. Among the local population hostility towards refugees cont ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Armenian Catholicos announces it will file an appeal to retrieve the properties of the ancient Sis Athens (Agenzia Fides) - Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has made public his intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Turkey within the month of October for th ...