News

• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Conference on demographic change in areas inhabited by Christians Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The first conference, sponsored by the organization "Friends of Bartala" to denounce the process of demographic balance interference in areas where Iraqi native Christian communities of Assyrian, ...
• 14 November 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - More than 170 murders and violence continues, we need a plan for disarmament Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The recent political tensions and the lack of a plan for disarmament in Haiti have facilitated the growth of violence and insecurity (see Fides 09/11/2013 ), facilitating the manipulation ...
• 14 November 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Good knowledge of other religions at the basis for dialogue between Christians and Muslims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Christian should take a bold step to study Islam while the Muslim should take bold step to study the Christian Religion. This knowledge of the facts of each other’s religion will go a long ...
• 14 November 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Difficulty of access to deficient health facilities for 320,000 inhabitants of Pujehun Pujehun (Agenzia Fides) - As soon as you enter the Pujehun district, located in the South Province, the asphalt ends and, with the rainy season, the road is full of holes and puddles, there are no links with rural areas, ...
• 14 November 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Appeal rejected: the Bishops' document on the election does not favor any party San José (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which rejected the appeal against the document of the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (Cecor) on next year's election , in which it ask ...
• 14 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The social market economy at the service of the individual and the community Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - How to ensure that the economy is really an engine for the promotion of individuals and society? This is the theme of the meeting, dedicated to social market economy, held yesterday in Kinshasa ...
• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Archbishop of Lahore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 14 November 2013, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Francis Shaw, O.F.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Lahore and Apostolic Administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the same arc ...
• 14 November 2013
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Fidei Donum priest kidnapped Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - A French priest, Father Georges Vandenbeusch, 42, was kidnapped in Cameroon, yesterday, 13 November, around 11.30 pm local time, says to to Fides Agency Mgr. Henri Djonyang, Vicar General of the ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas Asia: the victims of Typhoon Haiyan "a message of love and hope" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A "message of love and hope" to the population of the Philippines from Caritas Asia. In a statement released by the organization and sent to Fides Agency, the 23 Caritas of Asian countries expre ...
• 13 November 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - " The rebuilding begins to bear fruit", the U.S. Bishops’ report on the aid to the Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Bishops attended the screening of a video report on the work of reconstruction carried out in Haiti during the Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of the United States of Ame ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist protest against the visit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims go away!": With this slogan hundreds of Burmese citizens of Buddhist religion in Myanmar today welcomed the arrival of a delegation from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ...
• 13 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwandan military deployed 3 km from Goma, civil society denounces Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Rwandan military have entered Congolese territory where they are lined up 3 km from Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This was revealed in a note sent to F ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October, His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu Guandong, Bishop Emeritus of the Apostolic Prefecture of Yixian (Yihsien), in Hebei Province (Mainland China) returned to the Father's house, at the age of 94 ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Ad interim" government of the Syrian opposition: Christians, excluded, protest Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian members of the Syrian National Coalition - the Syrian opposition groups recognized last year as the sole legitimate representative of th ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Incalculable material damage, more than 4 million people devastated by Hayan: NGOs mobilize Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many humanitarian organizations that are mobilizing to help the people of the Philippines, also Manos Unidas, engaged in the Asian country for over 25 years, together with the organizat ...