News

• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Masses for the release of all the hostages Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road that from Aleppo leads to Dam ...
• 13 February 2014
  VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Filoni : "It is wise and healthy to go to Christ’s school, be once again young pupils and listen to the Master" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "How wise and healthy it would be to go to Christ’s school, be once again young pupils and listen to the Master. He who, with his behaviour, makes us feel good, because he speaks straight ...
• 13 February 2014
  VATICAN - Another priest among the pastoral workers killed in 2013 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has to be added to the list of pastoral workers killed in 2013 (published by Fides on 03/01/2014): We are talking about Fr. András Szarvas, who was killed on September 11, 2 ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Doing good is no longer a "subversive activity": Caritas in Myanmar for the poor and the excluded Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas in Myanmar, "Karuna" in the local language (which means "compassion") "has been at the service of the poor and the excluded since the dark days of dictatorship and oppression, when doing ...
• 13 February 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - American Indians: neglected and marginalized, but have great capacities Rosebud (Agenzia Fides) - "Usually, the populations of American Indians are neglected. Here we have a population that in the majority is uneducated and suffers from addictions to alcohol, drugs and depression. But it has ...
• 13 February 2014
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The challenges of ethics for Catholic leaders Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The conference on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Association of Managers and Executives (ACGD, in Portuguese), on the theme "Truth and ethics, challenges for ...
• 12 February 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - 2014 "Year of the Gospel" in the parish of Xi Liu Lin Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – To read, study, transcibe, memorize, transmit, and live the Gospel: these are the objectives proposed in the Year of the Gospel proclaimed in Xi Liu Lin parish of the Diocese of Tai Yuan, in ...
• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Resignation of the Bishop of Mohale's Hoek and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho, by His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I., in acc ...
• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros to the European Union: help Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II received the representatives of the Delegation of the European Union present in Egypt on Tuesday evening, February 11th. The meeting with the Patriarch, which ...
• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Test HIV/AIDS and free antiretroviral in the Diocese of Shinyanga Mwanza (Agenzia Fides) - The five-year project "Test & Treat", which provides free access to HIV testing and if necessary, to antiretroviral treatment for approximately 120 thousand residents of the District of Shinyanga ...
• 12 February 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Life is not respected any more in the country" alarm of the Church in the fight against drug trafficking Petén (Agenzia Fides) - "It is terrible that life is not respected any more in Guatemala": this was strongly denounced by the Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. referring ...
• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "No imposition of secular values in Africa," said the Archbishop of Jos Abuja ( Agenzia Fides) - "We must not be swallowed up by the tyrannical imposition of some governments or international non-governmental organizations who wish to dictate the moral trend of the world based on their secul ...
• 12 February 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Authorities have to talk less and be more effective in terms of safety Córdoba (Agenzia Fides) - "Talk less and be more effective", is what the Bishop of the diocese of Córdoba, His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Porfirio Patiño Leal publicly asked. As reported in the note sent to Fides Agency, the B ...
• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New round of peace talks in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of peace talks started yesterday, 11 February, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between the two rival factions of the SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the ruling par ...
• 12 February 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Children of ethnic Dao Tien committed to celebrating the Lunar New Year Moc Chau (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival of spring, the population of ethnic Dao Tien, especially the children of the northern mountainous district of Moc Chau, in Hoa Binh province, are engaged in the celebrations of ...