News

• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" interdiocesan philosophical Seminary in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 10, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Marie -Emmanuel Kone of the diocesan clergy of Dédougou as Rector o ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas after the attack in Abuja: perhaps foreign countries want to dismember Nigeria? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 19 people have died and 80 injured. This is the provisional toll regarding the bombing which took place yesterday, May 1st, at the station in Nyanya, in the capital of Nigeria, Abuja. The ...
• 2 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - More than half a million women die each year in developing Countries during pregnancy and childbirth tneestneestnenestndneatnjdneat Madrid (Agenzia Fides ) - "To be born a woman means more likely to live in poverty. Seven out of 10 people who suffer from hunger are women; two-thirds of illiterates are women all over the planet; over half a million wo ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal to the Government: protect female workers from violence and exploitation Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government must protect women workers from exploitation, violence and slavery, especially paying attention to how many are engaged in agricultural work, domestic work and or in other meni ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - A vigil to announce the new Bishop and pray for reconciliation Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn prayer vigil and an intense and shared adoration of the Eucharist, the Catholic Church in Nepal presented yesterday, May 1st, the new Bishop Paul Simick, former pastor of the Cat ...
• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Femicide continues to spread: nearly 4000 women were killed between 2002 and 2013 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in Honduras is the result of an average of 15 murders a day, attributed to several reasons, and puts the Country among the most violent in the world where there remains a serious si ...
• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The theme of the 97th Episcopal Assembly: "Encourage evangelization of cultures" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are eager to hear representatives of society, who during this Plenary Assembly will be artists, journalists, businessmen and a politicians. Representatives of indigenous peoples, a migr ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Bishops alarm: "The political situation is serious; the democratic climate is deteriorating day by day" Niamey (Agenzia Fides ) - "The current political situation is serious and the democratic climate that seemed clear after the success of the last election, is deteriorating day by day", say the Bishops of Niger in a messa ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Intimidation and abuse of Christians in Orissa: homes destroyed, faithful thrown out Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians who survived the violence in 2008 cannot find peace and are still today victims of abuse and intimidation: this is what was said by Fr. Ajay Kumar Singh, a Catholic priest i ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections among violence and attacks. Patriarch Sako: The policies of the West are due to the diaspora of Middle Eastern Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open seats, despite the strict security ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child soldiers leave school to "avenge" their parents' death Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Oil interests and the politics of the area, in force since the colonial era, have generated great division and hatred among the people of Sudan. In an endless cycle of violence and thousands of dis ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Assiut. Two Christians killed Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Two Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on Tuesday, April 29th due to sectarian clashes which broke out in villages in the area of the city of Assiut, Upper Egypt, due to the contrasts between ...
• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - First Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The first Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 12 to 16 May 2014 in Panama. As Fides learns, the event is organized by several Catholic groups that have ...
• 29 April 2014
  VATICAN CITY - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies begins May 5 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The greetings and the Report of His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, Secretary-Adjunct of th ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL ARICAN REPUBLIC - Sixteen unarmed civilians, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Borders, killed at Boguila Hospital Boguila (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, dozens of heavily armed Muslim rebels opened fire in a hospital in Central African Republic, killing at least 16 people, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Bor ...