News

• 13 November 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian deputies open an investigation into the management of oil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of the Federation of Nigeria has begun an investigation regarding the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state agency that handles foreign sales of Ni ...
• 13 November 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Year of Faith: "We must all work for conversion" Granada (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to re-awaken as a Catholic Church and continue to work in the coming years to become a community that transforms reality, we must stop evil, injustice and sin, in order to reign in the ...
• 12 November 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Catholic Church invited to the consultations on the constitutional reform Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) will participate in the consultations on the constitutional reform, announced yesterday, 11 November, by the Secretary General of CEN, Auxiliary Bisho ...
• 12 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The family at the center of the Church's pastoral plan for the next five years Madang (Agenzia Fides) - Listening to the needs and perspectives that will be raised at the next Synod of Bishops on the Family, proclaimed by Pope Francis, the Church in Papua New Guinea intends to put the family at the ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Double the mortality rate of people with disabilities compared to the rest of the population affected by the typhoon Iloilo City (Agenzia Fides) - An alarming fact is added to the very serious situation that the Philippine population is experiencing due to the violent typhoon Hayan. Unfortunately people with disabilities are those most ...
• 12 November 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholics and Anglicans together for peace in the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The joint campaign of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC, which brings together the Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda) an ...
• 12 November 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 7000 inhabitants in South Darfur do not have drinking water and basic services Adila (Agenzia Fides) - More than 7,000 residents in Mazroub, north of Adila, South Darfur, are short of basic services. According to information from local Radio Dabanga there is no doctor in the entire area. Patients o ...
• 12 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Evangelization in a context of violence" at the center of the reflection of the Bishops’ Assembly Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are doing our work of evangelization in a more violent context compared to other States and Monsignor Miguel (Mgr. Miguel Patiño Velazquez, Bishop of Apatzingán) is perhaps in the most ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Mortar shells on the center of Damascus: children, civilians and churches affected Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Mortar shells damaged the Primary Christian School St. John Damascene yesterday in the district of Al-Qassaa in Damascus, killing 5 children and wounding 27 others. Another rocket hit a school ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: novena of national prayer for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful Filipinos will carry out, in all the churches of the nation, a special novena of prayer for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (locally called "Yolanda"), to ask God for protection and su ...
• 12 November 2013
  AFRICA - Typhoon in the Philippines: solidarity in Africa springs into action Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The tragedy that struck the Philippines, devastated by typhoon Haiyan, has aroused emotion in Africa, particularly in Libya where there is a strong community of Filipino immigrants. As reported in ...
• 11 November 2013
  AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Nekemte and Successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 10 November 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate in Nekemte, Ethiopia, by His Exc. Mgr. Theodorus van Ruijven, C.M., in accor ...
• 11 November 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Catholic Bishops: foreign representatives favor the flight of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Among the factors which encourage the exodus of Christians from Iraq there is also the practice adopted by many foreign embassies and consulates that facilitate the granting of visas for asylum ...
• 11 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From Korea solidarity and aid to the victims of Typhoon Haiyen Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity and aid to the Philippine people affected in recent days by the typhoon Haiyen (locally known as "Yolanda") come from different Asian countries. In particular, as reported to Fides, His ...
• 11 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three commitments on behalf of the authorities for migrants, after the intervention of Mgr. Vera López Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of the state of Coahuila, Rubén Moreira, has publicly asked to assist and support the demands of the Bishop of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. José Raúl Vera López, ...