News

• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – Maaloula kidnapped nuns released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the late evening of Sunday, March 9 about 13 Greek-Orthodox nuns were released. They went missing in December after Islamist fighters took the ancient quarter of the Christian town of Maalou ...
• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church in aid of displaced people of Fallujah and Ramadi Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of senior officials and volunteers of the Chaldean Church, led by Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako, visited areas of the Iraqi capital where the displaced have found refuge in the citie ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The role of the General Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences on the subject of reconciliation, good governance, the common good and democratic transition Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A Seminar for General Secretaries of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa begins today in Johannesburg (South Africa). According to a statement sent to Fides Agency, the Seminar, organized b ...
• 10 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - New policies for young people are urgently needed, because "drugs have entered all levels of society" Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Neuquen and First Vice President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, His Exc. Mgr. Virginio Domingo Bressanelli, S.C..I stated that "it would not be a bad idea "f ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Support to give strength to the women of Chisitu Chisitu (Agenzia Fides) - Malnourished children, raised by desperate women and at the end of their tether. Women who are abandoned, sick and jobless: this is what the Community Center in Chisitu, Zambia is committed to, ...
• 10 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishop of Maracay on the situation in the country: "There is no peace without justice" Maracay (Agenzia Fides) - Everything about peace must be based primarily on the desire for dialogue on both sides, one of the steps to take to have peace is to accept the differences: is what was stated yesterday, Sunday ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA – Vast offensive against the Shabaab in the south-west of Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A major offensive against the Shabaab has allowed to regain a number of places in the south-west of Somalia. Military operations are carried out by the forces of AMISOM (African Union Mission ...
• 7 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "Missionary Year": 100 years since the arrival of the first Orionini missionaries in Brazil Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary history of the Congregation starts from Genoa on December 17, 1913, when the first missionaries left for Brazil. The first missionary tent was set up in Brazil in Mar de Espanha, o ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - The women of Zi Gong: active in the Church and in society, following the example of Mary Zi Gong (Agenzia Fides) – In view of International Women's Day, March 8, the women of the parish of the Zi Gong of the Diocese of Yi Bin, in the province of Si Chuan, met to reflect on how to be more active protagonist ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - "Time of compassion": Archbishop Goh’s message for Lent Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Lent teaches us how to live the love and compassion of Christ. In his ministry on earth, Jesus expressed God's love to the needy, the sick, the lepers. His mercy culminated on the cross, when ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem resolves water emergencies in two Palestinian cities Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The problems in the management of water resources in the Palestinian Territories in different forms penalize the lives of the local population. The general scarcity of water is accompanied by p ...
• 7 March 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Dialogue between the Church and civil authorities on the problems regarding the population Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Republic of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, met with the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Latin American country, gathered for their Ordinary General Assembly to discus ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Where to be born female is considered "a disaster " Anantapur (Agenzia Fides) - Women living in India suffer abuse eight times higher than any other place in the world. Physical abuse in the country is seen as a "right of the husband" and almost half of the violence affec ...
• 7 March 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – The "miraculous necklaces" made from recycled paper Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of International Women's Day, the "miraculous necklaces" of the NGO Meeting Point International, in Kampala will return to Italy. Made by mothers, the 48 000 pearl necklaces made ...
• 7 March 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church denounces the alarming pollution of the Peruvian forest Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - The Human Rights Office of the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos (Peru), has published a "Report of Environmental Monitoring of the Marañón River and the Pacaya Samiria Reserve" which highlights ...