News

• 11 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Ethnic groups and oil in the Libyan civil war Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The clash between Islamist militias and so-called "nationalists" in Libya is turning into an ethnic clash with the intervention of guerrillas of the Tubu tribe of Kufra in the south of Cyrenaica ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – US Catholic Bishops make Holy Land pilgrimage to 'pray for peace' Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On Thursday 11 September a group of 18 Catholic Bishops from the United States of America will begin a pilgrimage to visit the places where Jesus lived his earthly life with the specific in ...
• 10 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation AFRICA/NIGERIA – Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Boko Haram has escaped even its Nigerian sponsors and risks becoming an internation ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Severe floods, Caritas sends volunteers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – With severe floods affecting the life of the people in the Pakistan provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Jammu and Kashmir, Caritas Pakistan has mobilised its volunteers to respond to the emergency. ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic priest says: Christians will return to the Plain of Ninive only when and if Mosul is freed Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – With the uncertain prospects in the region of north Iraq the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Moshe, and the faithful of his diocese have decided to try to return to Qaraqosh ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - “Young people without frontiers”: witnesses and proclaimers of the faith to the world of today Lima (Agenzia Fides) –Young missionaries (Youth without Frontiers) members of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru will gather in Lima 20 and 21 September for their 2nd National Meeting. Two the principal reasons ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – Fighting poverty and undernourishment to escape underdevelopment Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Indicators of poverty and undernourishment in this country show clearly that unless Guatemalans win the battle against this scourge, the country will remain in the present state of und ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Catholics in southern India: urgent instruction Christian families Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges facing family life: a Catholic response”: this was the theme discussed recently in view of the Synod of Bishops for the Family due to be held in Rome in October. The Catholic ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment San José (Agenzia Fides) –The National Children’s Hospital in Costa Rica (HNN) recently held the 5th edition of a sports event whic ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Christian MP in Iraq’s new government Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian MP is among the Ministers in a new government of Iraq approved yesterday by Parliament with a majority of 177 out of 289. The new minister is Chaldean Christian Faris Yusef Jajo, f ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – majority of child workers in Mexico’s south east regions Mérida (Agenzia Fides) – In the Mexican state of Yucatan about 4, 680 children aged between 5 and 17 live in situations of extreme vulnerability. They work in the fields, on building sites, in manufacturing and comm ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The murdered nuns will be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says former regional Xavarian superior Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “All three of the murdered Italian nuns had serious health conditions , but all three, AFRICA/BURUNDI - “The murdered nuns asked to be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says f ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – New equipe for missionary animation in the land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Two intense days of prayer, reflection and listening to testimony, held 5 and 6 September, involved some forty participants in a “missionary animation” session convoked by Carmelite pri ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - JRS: optimistic about release of Jesuit priest taken hostage in June Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – “Moderate optimism” has been voiced by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) regarding the wellbeing and release of Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, 47 year old Jesuit kidnapped in the area of Herat last ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Postponed until October 16 next hearing for the Asia Bibi appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In a hearing this morning lasting only a few minutes, the High Court of Lahore, Judge Anwar Ul Haq adjourned the Asia Bibi appeal, postponing it 16 October, Fides was informed by the lawyers of ...