News

• 31 January 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Leaders of Christian Churches: every adult citizen has to be free to choose his own religion Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Christian churches in Iraq hope that the right to freely choose one’s own religion when they reach adulthood is guaranteed to all citizens. This was reported in a statement ...
• 31 January 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Archbishop Young: concern for the 13 prisoners that will be executed Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - Papua New Guinea's Justice Minister says the execution of 13 people currently on death row will happen this year, despite strong opposition from human rights groups. "Deep concern" and "abs ...
• 31 January 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 2014 proclaimed "year of peace and hope" in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Faiasalabad in the heart of Pakistani Punjab, has declared 2014 "a year of peace and hope": is what the new Bishop, Mgr. Joseph Arshad said, who is making a pastoral visit to p ...
• 30 January 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year: opportunity for vocational pastoral ministry and evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Several mainland Chinese Catholic communities are taking advantage of the winter and New Year holidays to organize formation initiatives for young people, migrant workers, students or you ...
• 30 January 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The verdict on the wall in the Cremisan valley has been postponed Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Israel has postponed the verdict on the route of the separation wall. Israeli authorities plan to build a security wall in the Cremisan Valley, on the land of 58 Palestini ...
• 30 January 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - A Christian, in prison because "converted", has been released Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Davoud Alijani, an Iranian Christian who converted from Islam to Christianity and leader of the "Assembly of God" in the city of Ahwaz, was released from prison in Karoon on January 13. As report ...
• 30 January 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Church and government: together for life and for peace Margarita (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Margarita (Venezuela), Mgr. Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón, told the local press that the Church expects to be called to establish a joint project with authorities ...
• 30 January 2014
  AFRICA/CHAD - Christians and Muslims pray together for peace in Chad and Central Africa N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The closing of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was celebrated in a very special way in Chad because it coincided with the third National Day of peaceful cohabitation", is what is said ...
• 30 January 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – A Christian killed for his refusal to build silencers for firearms Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Laith Hadi Behnam was a 57-year- old and was a Christian of Syriac Orthodox confession of Mosul. On Wednesday 29 January, his unknown assassins killed him with a gun in his workshop located in the ...
• 30 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 25 thousand children - missionary disciples at the feast of the Holy Childhood Toluca (Agenzia Fides) - Today the great missionary feast begins: the XVI National Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (CONIAM), which will be held in the Diocese of Toluca (Mexico). The event, which takes ...
• 30 January 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 500,000 displaced people from 66 villages destroyed by the rebels in Katanga Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 500,000 people forced to flee from their villages because of the violence carried out by the Bakata Katanga militia in the province of Katanga, in the south of the Democrati ...
• 30 January 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church: population growth is not a nightmare Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in population in Papua New Guinea is not a nightmare, but it can result in an encouraging prospect for growth and social and economic progress of the country. This was stated i ...
• 29 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Social networks, a reality in the Church Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - More than 200 priests, seminarians, religious and lay people gathered at the Palafox Seminary, where the fifth Diocesan Synod of the Archdiocese of Puebla took place and has just ended. It was an ...
• 29 January 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christians took to the streets for religious freedom: 18 Buddhists on trial for attacks against churches Colomba (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan Christians, of all denominations, marched through the streets of the capital Colombo to protest against the attacks carried out lately by Buddhist extremists and for the lack of p ...
• 29 January 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram: "military response alone does not solve anything", says Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The government has spent billions to purchase all kinds of gadgets. No matter the amount of money spent it cannot solve the problem of security", said His Eminence Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiye ...