News

• 22 May 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Project for defeating forms of avoidable blindness affecting millions of Ethiopians Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Trachoma is one of the most common visual disorders in Africa and, if not treated timely, leads to permanent blindness. Ethiopia is one of the African countries with the highest incidence of peopl ...
• 22 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros : let us all go and vote to elect the new President Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the Egyptian presidential election, scheduled for May 26 and 27, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II issued a strong appeal to the faithful to go to the polls to give the Country a ...
• 21 May 2014
  EUROPE/GREECE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 10, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. George Altuvas, of the Archdiocese of Athens as National Director o ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Dialogue resumes, but we need facts not promises Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the apostolic Nuncio in Caracas highlighted the willingness of the government of Venezuela and of the participants at th ...
• 21 May 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Cardinal of Seul visits North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, is the first Roman Catholic Cardinal to set foot in North Korea: today, May 21, the Archbishop crossed the border and made a brief visit to the ...
• 21 May 2014
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - North Korea: Religious freedom denied Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Religious freedom is completely denied in North Korea, considered the world's most hostile nation to Christianity: the report "World Watch List 2013", released by the American organization "Open D ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Rapes, theft and destruction against the displaced persons in the refugee camp in Zamzam Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people in the refugee camp in Zamzam, in El Fasher in North Darfur, have been living days of terror since the militia and paramilitary forces of the Central Reserve Forces, known as ...
• 21 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The "Jubilee USA Network" campaign for finance at the service of man Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the support of the Holy See and of the leaders of the Church throughout the world is crucial to put pressure on governments": This is what representatives of "Jubilee USA N ...
• 21 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Syrian refugees await Pope Francis. The director of Caritas Jordan: they hope that the world will remember them Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A Syrian Muslim refugee from Homs and a Christian Iraqi refugees will tell Pope Francis their stories full of pain and fatigue during the meeting that the Bishop of Rome will have with refugees, t ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "NATO office in Tripoli has been hit" says Mgr. Martinelli to Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We spent a quiet night, although I heard that the NATO offices linked to the European Union, that are here in Tripoli were bombed. Probably these two institutions were symbolically hit", says t ...
• 21 May 2014
  VATICAN - Pope Francis invites to pray so that "Catholics in China continue to believe, to hope and to love" Vatican City ( Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the general audience today, the Holy Father invited to pray for Catholics in China with these words: "May 24, is the day dedicated to the liturgical memorial of the Blessed V ...
• 21 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Bomb explosions will not stop dialogue between Christians and Muslims", says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is still confusing and the information on the number of people affected is still incomplete", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, a city in ...
• 20 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops hope new government will uphold secularism Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the new government will uphold eternal values and secularism in making India a great nation ": This is what the Indian Bishops said in an official statement issued by the Catholic Bi ...
• 20 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Ad gentes Missionary vocation", the main form of missionary cooperation Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The "Days" of Diocesan Delegates for the Missions and the National Assembly of diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) are being held in Madrid. With the slogan "Ad gentes m ...
• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence in parts of Central America also encourages children to emigrate alone San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Bishops of the United States of America, Mexico and Central America meet to discuss major issues related to the complex phenomenon of migration. The meeting, whic ...