News

• 28 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "Boko Haram insurgency is an anomaly in the socio-religious environment of the Nigerian nation which does not truly reflect the Country’s Muslim/Christian relationship" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is "the greatest Islamo-Christian nation in the world" where the two major religions in the Country live in harmony with each other and with the faithful of other religions. This was state ...
• 28 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Missile on an Armenian church in Aleppo during Mass Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Aleppo was hit by a missle while the faithful were attending mass. The attack damaged the dome and broke the windows, but caused no injuries. T ...
• 28 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We see trade of death on the street" denounces the Bishop of Quilmes Quilmes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Quilmes (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Jose Tissera, expressed strong concern over the alarming increase in drug trafficking in the areas of Quilmes, Berazategui ...
• 28 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Today fasting and prayer for Asia Bibi and for Sawan Masih Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians are united in Lahore today, March 28, in a day of fasting and prayer for Asia Bibi and for Sawan Masih, both Christians and unjustly condemned to death on charges of blasphemy. An inte ...
• 28 March 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The missionaries: "May the agreement with the rebels of the South bring peace, justice and development" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – May the agreement between the Philippine government and the "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" (MILF) rebel group, signed on March 27, generate new hope but has to truly be "a harbinger of peace ...
• 27 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - The Archdiocese of Xi An makes a pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Hu Xian for the Annunciation Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - Following Jesus on the Way of the Cross on the example of Mary: this is how the faithful of the Archdiocese of Xi An, in Shaan Xi Province, wanted to celebrate the solemnity of the Annunciation of ...
• 27 March 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops’ priorities: Indigenous and social pastoral, relaunch of the Permanent Mission Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Pastoral, the coordination of social pastoral in the dioceses, the relaunch of the Permanent Mission and a first agenda on CAM 2018, are the points that the Bishops of Bolivia ...
• 27 March 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - General strike in the country; the Church supports those demanding justice and social solidarity Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – After yesterday’s general strike, March 26th, which took place in a peaceful manner without any form of violence, the President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, gave orders to listen to the un ...
• 27 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Campaign to improve diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tuberculosis is an old disease, which unfortunately is still very present: 8 million new cases each year. What worries most is the multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) form of the disease. The current trea ...
• 27 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - UN Mission in Iraq: without respect for minorities, there is no democracy Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "All too commonly non-majority communities suffer from multiple forms of discrimination and marginalization that detrimentally affect their full and equal participation in the political, economi ...
• 27 March 2014
  AFRICA/CHAD - "We must choose between corruption and the generosity of the Christian faith": Message for the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Pala N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides ) - "Our Church must choose between mediocrity and corruption which are becoming more and more popular in the Country and the generosity the Christian faith asks for". This is the strong appeal l ...
• 27 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Street children who live in train stations rescued by a Catholic priest Lucknow (Agenzia Fides) - More than fifty poor children of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and victims of drug abuse, have been rescued by an Indian priest who collects children in search of food and shelter in trains ...
• 27 March 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian and Muslim religious leaders condemn the attack on the Evangelical Church Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan religious leaders have strongly condemned the attack on the Evangelical Church in Likoni on March 23 (see Fides 24/03/2014), in which six people were killed and dozens of others were ...
• 27 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Mgr. Joseph Fan Zhongliang, Bishop of Shanghai: always committed to serving the Church in spite of great difficulties Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Fan Zhongliang, S.I., Bishop of the Diocese of Shanghai (Mainland China ), died on March 16, at the age of 96. The Prelate was born on January 13, 1918: He was baptized o ...
• 26 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Curé d'Ars" inter-diocesan Theological Seminary in Bujumbura Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2013 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Emmanuel Gihutu of the clergy of the Diocese of Ruyigi Rector of the ...