News

• 11 August 2014
  VATICAN - Pope Francis meets with Cardinal Fernando Filoni, his Envoy in Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday evening the Holy Father received Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and newly appointed Personal Envoy of the Pope in Iraq, in ...
• 6 August 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Pope Francis welcomes the opening of a reception center for victims of sexual exploitation Misiones (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear brother, I came to know that on August 1, the Mburucuyá reception center opens. Through these lines I want to greet and thank all those involved in this work, which is a testimony of lov ...
• 6 August 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appeal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Aid to the Church in Need for the victims of Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - At the request of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, the pontifical organization Aid to the Church in Need has allocated € 50,000 for the victims of the war in Gaza. The contribut ...
• 6 August 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The V National Missionary Congress begins Barinas (Agenzia Fides) - There are thousands of young Venezuelans who will, as from today, participate in the V National Missionary Youth Congress (CONAJUMI) at the Diocese of Barinas (Venezuela). The Pontifical Mission ...
• 6 August 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - In Gaza a child dies every hour. There is no electricity, water and essential medical services Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of violence does not stop and the humanitarian crisis is severely affecting the population of the Gaza Strip, in particular children (see Fides 25/07/2014). So far at least 408 have died a ...
• 6 August 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks against Catholic churches. The details of the attack in Kano perpetrated by a female suicide bomber Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least one person died and several others were injured in an attack against a Catholic church in the village of Ungwar Poppo, in Kachia Local Government Area in the State of Kaduna (in the north ...
• 6 August 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Some Tanzanian citizens arrested in connection with the assaults in Lamu, causing 100 deaths Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Three people from Tanzania have been arrested in Kenya on suspicion of having participated in attacks committed in June against some villages in the Kenyan coastal area of Lamu, which caus ...
• 5 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Commitment of the Church and of all the agencies present in Eastern Equatoria to raise awareness against the cholera epidemic that is rampant in the Country Isohe (Agenzia Fides) - There is not only war, unfortunately, that afflicts South Sudan. Since 21 July, there have already been 26 reported cases of cholera at the St. Theresa Mission Hospital, in Isohe, Ikwoto County. I ...
• 5 August 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National holiday: the Church hopes for unity and peace, in view of the forthcoming elections Oruro (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Christopher Bialasik, SVD, Bishop of the Diocese of Oruro (Bolivia), invited the community to celebrate the national holiday that falls tomorrow, August 6, in a spirit of unity and peace. ...
• 5 August 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Nearly 900 dead and more than a thousand infections detected. Growing alarm about the spread of the Ebola virus Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) – The Ebola virus is spreading alarmingly in West Africa. After the death of Brother Patrick Nshamdze, Director of St. Joseph Hospital in Monrovia, the hospital has been isolated, and three con ...
• 5 August 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – Ebola: the director of St. Joseph's Hospital, in Monrovia has died Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Brother Patrick Nshamdze, director of the St. Joseph’s hospital (Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God), in Monrovia (Liberia) died after contracting the Ebola virus. Brother Patrick was a n ...
• 5 August 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The State of Tabasco extends medical assistance to migrants; the satisfaction of the Bishop Tabasco (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gerardo de Jesus Rojas López, Bishop of Tabasco, has welcomed the announcement on behalf of the state government to extend medical assistance to migrants offered by the Seguro Popular (n ...
• 4 August 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Even if only one Christian remains I will stay here", says the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The Christian community in Libya is now reduced to a minimum but I intend to stay here even if only one Christian remains", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of ...
• 4 August 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Prevention to fight against the new phenomenon of 'micro-trafficking' of drugs La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest estimates, in Bolivia there is the lowest rate of drug use, a little over 3% of the population makes use of drugs. However, the situation is far from positive, particularl ...
• 4 August 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - First Congress on the Family "source of social wealth" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 350 pastoral workers in Latin America and the Caribbean enrolled in the First Latin American Congress of agents of family pastoral that will take place from August 4 to 9 in ...