News

• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - “We have been blessed with good leadership: let’s vote to preserve this heredity” says Bishop of Gaborone Gaborone (Agenzia Fides)- “It is our duty, as citizens, exercise our right to choose leaders and government who will respect human dignity and work to improve the lives of everyone” Bishop Valentine Tsamma Seane, of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: “at each mass I speak about Ebola and how to avoid infection” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – “Ebola is such a virulent virus that it is not easily treated; only experts can run the test to identify the virus and determine the stage of the infection. Therefore the Catholic Church, t ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI -Three Xaverian Missionaries killed in Burundi: the mission is full of people anxious to express sympathy with the sisters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – Three Italian Xaverian sisters have been killed in Burundi, at the mission of Kamenge. The news was confirmed to Fides by Sister Giordana, Directress General of the Xaverian missionary sist ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy, later withdrawn, against 31 Christians in a Punjab village Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – A typical case of abuse of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law, which would appear now to have been resolved thanks to intervention by the local police – a rare event – happened reportedly in th ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 9 September, date for next hearing in the trial of Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow 9 September, has been set as the date for the next hearing in an appeal by Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman facing a death sentence for blasphemy. Fides was informed by the High Court in L ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/LESOTHO – The Pope and the Bishops call for dialogue to resolve the crisis in Lesotho Maseru (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Lesotho remains tense after the failure of an attempted coup on 30 August led by rebel general Tlali Kamoli, now in hiding in the hills with a few faithful heavily armed milit ...
• 8 September 2014
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Passionate Communicators of the Good News”: meeting for Cono sur Pontifical Mission Societies Canelones (Agenzia Fides) – “Missionary Disciples, passionate communicators of the Good News,” is the theme of reflection and discussion for national Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies ( ...
• 8 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi es Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 30 July 2014 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Mex ...
• 8 September 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Middle East education emergency: school year at risk for millions of students Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Gaza the re-opening of schools – initially set for 24 August and involving more than 240,000 students – was postponed to 14 September. In Iraq more than half a million among the Iraqis force ...
• 6 September 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Peace agreement signed in view of October elections Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – A peace agreement signed yesterday 5 September in Maputo, has put and end to almost two years of “low profile” conflict between government forces and former Renamo guerrillas (Resistenza Na ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Celebration of the sacraments and missionary mandate after Summer catechism courses Pechino (Agenzia Fides) – A group of 108 catechumens, mostly aged between 5 and 16 years but also a few in their sixties, members of the Xi Kai Cathedral parish in the diocese of Tian Jin, recently received the thre ...
• 6 September 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The life of every migrant demands we build a new world; migrants’ pilgrimage to Luján Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – “The life of every migrant and every refugee demands and urges us to build a new world” we read in a statement issued jointly by the Argentine Bishops’ Commission for Migration and ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Converts to Christianity still risk capital charges Teheran (Agenzia Fides) – Two Iranian Christians, members of the protestant Church of Iran community have been accused of “spreading corruption in the world”. Two other Christians, Iranian Pastor Matthias Haghnej ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Silsilah Dialogue Centre advocates harmony in the Year of the Laity Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – Christians and Muslims must work together to promote a spirit of harmony especially in the difficult world of today faced with a new explosion of sectarian violence and radical Islamism in ...
• 6 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians, but also Muslims, flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians but also Muslims flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Several churches are in ruins and tens of thousands, mainly Christians, are running to escape ...