News

• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A Capuchin friar: "More schools in rural areas to ensure the right to education" Trichy (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church, very active in the field of education, "has a duty to launch and manage educational institutes not only in cities but also in rural areas, to serve the poor and the marginalize ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the presidential elections: a power vacuum would erase the role of Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, has relaunched the alarm about the destabilizing effects the power vacuum, caused by the failure to elect a president before May 25 ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We want concrete action to free kidnapped girls"; maybe some of them are in Central Africa Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja has called for “concrete action” to save the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. "We want concrete action to free the kidnapped girls", said Cardinal Jo ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Disabled children deprived of medical care and schooling New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are between 40 and 80 million disabled people, about 2.1% of the population. Among these, 60% are children and the most affected are children under 14 years of age. There are no ...
• 9 May 2014
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides ) - On May 21, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Gustavo Adrian Benitez, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missi ...
• 9 May 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Augustine" philosophical interdiocesan Seminary in Kabgayi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Patrick K. Simutowe, of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpi ...
• 9 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A priest : "Development and education, priorities for the future of India" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As we approach May 16, when the results of the general election will be made known, Fr. Faustine Lobo, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in India, in an interview ...
• 8 May 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the Mater Ecclesiae College: Religious women, missionary outposts and proclamation of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that in our College, while we form the young to the service of God, the Church and its religious Family, we also carry out a principle of duty to the advancement of women in the life of th ...
• 8 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Brotherhood and solidarity respond to those who promote hatred between Haitians and Dominicans Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has no doubts: the neighboring peoples of Haiti and Santo Domingo are joined by acts of brotherhood and solidarity, they are two countries that are experiencing the same reality on the s ...
• 8 May 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The President of the Episcopal Conference announces the Diocesan Synods in order "to strengthen unity and deepen faith" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Burundi is about to experience a strong moment of grace and spiritual deepening thanks to the Synods which will be organized in every diocese in the Country", says to Fides Agency Hi ...
• 8 May 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Vietnamese priest in the list of the top “100 information heroes” Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Anton Ngoc Thanh, a Vietnamese Redemptorist is listed in the “100 information heroes” by the Reporters Without Borders for the forthcoming World Press Freedom Day, 3 May. As Fides learns, the ...
• 8 May 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Integrated program for the fight against poverty through rural development and human formation: a social project for a rural area Moatize (Agenzia Fides) - In the province of Tete, the Salesian Mission in Moatize is realizing the second edition of Austria - Moatize project carried out by the NGO Austrian Salesian Jugend Eine Welt. According to the ...
• 8 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 800 women and 18 000 children under five years of age die from preventable causes worldwide every day Washington (Agenzia Fides) - About 800 mothers and 18 000 children under five years of age die from preventable causes Worldwide every day . This is what is stated in the report "State of the World’s Mothers" just publ ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The complaint of the Bishop Gassis: Catholic hospital bombed in the Nuba Mountains Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The bombing is an outrage against innocent civilians who are seeking medical assistance from our hospital," said Bishop Emeritus Macram Max Gassis of the Diocese of EI Obeid in a statement sen ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - The decline in vocations to priesthood at the center of the Assembly of Bishops of Chile Punta de Tralca (Agenzia Fides) - With a Mass presided by the Apostolic Nuncio in Chile, Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, the 107th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Chile (CECh) began, which takes place from May 5 t ...