News

• 14 March 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Laity and religious freedom": the voice of the Church Quito (Agenzia Fides ) - On 13 March the Bishops of Ecuador published a pastoral letter titled: "Laity and religious freedom". The document, sent to Fides Agency, is divided into two sections and expresses the Church's t ...
• 14 March 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The first Mass celebrated in Dallo Manna, in the house of a lay missionary Dallo Manna (Agenzia Fides) – Dallo Manna is a town of about 50 thousand inhabitants of Ethiopia at the foot of the forest, in the region of Bale, about 130 km south of the capital Robe. Here the Church is carrying out ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Three convicted and six acquitted for the rape of a nun in the massacres of Christians in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – There is shock and dismay among the Christians in India after this morning’s ruling, March 14, in which a court of first instance in the district of Kandhamal, in Orissa, condemned three p ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Nassar: signs of hope in our Lent spent in war Damascus ( Agenzia Fides) - A new Lent spent in war "will mean pain and violence", but "from this abyss of suffering" one can also see "miraculous signs of light and hope". This is described by the Maronite Archbishop of ...
• 14 March 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Songea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 14, 2014, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Damian Denis Dallu, Bishop of Geita as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Songea (Tanzania). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 14/03/2014) ...
• 14 March 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue to conclude the agreement in the country has started again Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH) announced that on Thursday, March 13 the second phase of the inter-Haitian dialogue to put an end to a long crisis that paralyzes the country start ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/R.D.CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Kasongo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 11, 2014, the Holy Father, appointed Fr. Placide Lubamba Ndjibu, M. Afr., Provincial Superior of the missionaries of Africa to Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On a mission in the land of the Taliban with Pope Francis Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - The mission in Quetta in the Baluchistan region, inaccessible land where Taliban militants groups are hiding, continues "in the company of Pope Francis". This is what Fr. Renald Lawrence, of the ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Christian Churches committed to education, health and rights of 30 000 children Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 30 thousand children, girls and adolescents who benefit from support programs offered by churches, NGOs and other Christian organizations engaged in the Gran Santo Domingo ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "A just peace! "Church's solidarity with the people of Syria New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Three years of conflict in Syria have literally devastated and destroyed your life and your dreams. More than 100,000 lives have been lost, thousands of maimed and wounded are dying of hunger ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Full availability of Bishops to dialogue with the government on issues of national interest Managua ( Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua will express in writing to President Daniel Ortega its total willingness to dialogue with the government: this was stated by His Exc. Mgr. René Sócrates ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The situation has improved in Bozoum, but the situation remains precarious in the rest of the Country", says a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Safety conditions are improving in Bozoum, at least we managed to block the violence and theft that occurred in past days", says to Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary in Bo ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 46 missing children in the desert after the latest attacks in South Darfur have been found Kalma (Agenzia Fides) - After the attack of local paramilitary forces Rapid Support Forces in dozens of villages in the area south-east of Nyala, in South Darfur, approximately 46 children were found wandering in the des ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Some Catholic and Anglican Bishops: "fight against corruption to defeat Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - "I have just returned from Europe. Anywhere I went, Nigerians in Europe were asking me the same question: why is Boko Haram killing innocent children?" said Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Ar ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – In Aleppo, the Order of Malta inaugurates three new mobile clinics for refugees Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the beginning of the civil war in Syria, Malteser International - the international relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta – inaugurates three new mobile clinics in cam ...