News

• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – Attack on Catholic parish in Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – During the night of 26 to 27 February unidentified assailants caused a bomb explosion in the courtyard of the Latin Catholic parish church in Gaza, in the southern district of Zeitun. The blast ...
• 28 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Pray for Venezuela and discern events in the light of the Word of God San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) – “We are not here to say who is right or who is wrong, we are here to pray, to meet one another, to be enlightened in order to enlighten our faithful. The message from Pope Francis is ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Health care and schooling to combat poverty and neglect in the area of Beira Beira (Agenzia Fides) – In Mozambique emergencies and conflicts persist following the decision by the opposition Resistencia Nacional Mozambiqueña (Renamo) to end a peace agreement with the governing Mozambique Liber ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “We have yet to verify the presence of the bodies of the three Assumptionist priests in mass graves discovered” says the Bishop Butembo-Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Still uncertain the plight and whereabouts of three Congolese Assumptionist Fathers (Augustinians of the Assumption), abducted in 2012 in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Fa ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack on Assyrian Democratic Organization head offices Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of 27 February a gang of men armed with machine guns and hand grenades attacked the head offices of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), at Qamishli, in the north easter ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – Where to be a child is impossible Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world there are countries where children live in continual danger and for many different reasons it is impossible to be a child. Among these countries Syria, Afghanistan and Congo ...
• 28 February 2014
  VATICAN - The blood of martyrs “scarlet thread” linking Latin America and the Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “A constant in Christian history is persecution and the cross which in this world and in these times touches so many of the sons and daughters of the Church. It is the giving of one’ ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – Zanzibar police says “no religious motives behind bomb blasts” Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “Exaggeration should be avoided ; there are neither religious nor political motives behind the violence” said chief of Zanzibar police, Hamdani Omar, in a press conference in Zanziba ...
• 28 February 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Flood stricken native peoples in Beni destitute and starving Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) –Bolivia is witnessing the worst floods in recent years with casualties and major damage in many parts of the country. According to information obtained by Fides, in Puerto Varador, 7 km from ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/CHINA – Eucharistic adoration and sobriety: message from Han Dan diocese for the new year Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – Eucharistic Adoration in community and individual form, to practice with devotion, and the adoption of a life stile of sobriety, above all in certain circumstances of ecclesial life, concentra ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - We Colombians cannot be indifferent to the suffering experienced by our brothers and sisters in Venezuela Cali (Agenzia Fides) – The secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Bishop José Daniel Falla Robles, auxiliary of Cali, has called on all Colombians to unite in prayer and solidarity with t ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - 50,000 Somali children at risk for malnutrition and inadequate sanitation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – In Somalia the famine of 2011 has ended, Mogadishu is rid of militia, in politics there has been marked progress. Never the less the United Nations Organisation and the Somali government ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY – Restitution of lands to Syrian Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery completed Mardin (Agenzia Fides) – The lands belonging to the ancient Monastery of Mor Gabriel, situated in the south-eastern Turkish province of Mardin, have at last been returned to the Syrian-Orthodox community to which the ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us work together for peace”: Bishop Taban urges Muslim community Juba (Agenzia Fides) – A call to the Muslim community in the country to work together with Christians for peace in South Sudan has been launched by Bishop Paride Taban, emeritus Bishop of Torit, also chairman of the So ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church at National Conference for Peace: find ways and means for dialogue to resolve the difficulties of Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, yesterday Wednesday 26 February, opened the National Conference for Peace, with the participation of representatives of all the social sectors, only ...