News

• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - The relatives of the martyr, Archbishop Rahho write to the Pope on the eve of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Holiness, your tears on the memory of Christian martyrs give us as children of the Catholic Church also the strength to endure hardship and go towards others with faith and love for all. As ...
• 15 May 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "By blocking visas, Europe pushes immigrants into the arms of traffickers", says Fr. Zerai Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "There are at least two factors that explain the increase in the number of people trying to cross the Mediterranean with boats" says to Fides Agency Don Mussie Zerai Yosief, President of the Hab ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 5 Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by employers have been released Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by their Muslim employers, owners of brick kilns, have been released thanks to the intervention of the bailiff and the police. As reported to Fides ...
• 15 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 88-year-old Mgr. Lona continues to defend the indigenous population Chimalapas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Tehuantepec (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Arturo Lona Reyes, has publicly stated that Rosario Robles Berlanga, the Federal responsible of SEDESOL (Secretariat of S ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – The Christians of Jerusalem write to the Nuncio: we want to see Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "On the eve of the visit to Jerusalem by His Holiness Pope Francis, and his meeting with His Holiness Bartholomew I, we seek our legitimate right to greet our spiritual leaders". This is what ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The country is sick of violence": proposal of Bishops to respond to this reality Lomas Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Lomas de Zamora (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J., rejected the criticisms expressed by members of the government to the document entitled "Blessed are the ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 68 Muslim lawyers denounced for blasphemy: for the Church "it is a patent abuse" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The police in the district of Jhang, the province of Punjab, has opened a blasphemy case against 68 Muslim lawyers, mostly Shiites, who on 7 May had staged a protest against a police officer. A ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Grand Mufti Qabbani proposes a new "pact" between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic and the highest authority of Sunni Islam in the Country of the cedars, elaborated a Christian-Muslim pact as a contributi ...
• 14 May 2014
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - The "Small Missionary Clubs" where children learn to help their needy peers Prague (Agenzia Fides) - The children of Pontifical Holy Childhood in the Czech Republic have just published a collection of pictures and drawings in which their favorite missionary quotes are shown. The book, titled How ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal of the World Council of Churches: "With the agreement signed, the real work starts now" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains volatile until the truce actually takes effect on the ground" says a note by the World Council of Churches (WCC) sent to Fides Agency, on the peace agreement signed by Presid ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – What is feared is the failure of peace talks, today new student demonstration Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between the Venezuelan government and the opposition, which began in April in response to student protests and the political and socio-economic crisis prevailing in the country, is on t ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Knesset discusses the Armenian Genocide Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli parliament discussed the issue of the Armenian Genocide during the plenary session on Tuesday, May 13. "This discussion" stressed the Chairman of the Israeli parliament, Yuli Edels ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Adoration and prayers in all churches for the kidnapped girls Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - The Church of Nigeria is following with special attention and participation the case of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by a terrorist group in Nigeria. "In the last two Sundays, at the end of eve ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - After the bombing of a Catholic hospital, mass displacement in Southern Kordofan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The European Union delegation for Sudan has expressed concern about the recent bombing of the Mother of Mercy Catholic Hospital in Gidel, near Kianda, the Nuba Mountains, condemned by Mgr. Macr ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops call for three days of prayer for the Church-Government meeting Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua invite Nicaraguans to pray for the next Church-Government meeting, which will take place on May 21, an opportunity to open a dialogue with President Daniel Ortega Saaved ...