News

• 5 November 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The M23 surrenders but first bombards civilians, accuse local sources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On November 4, dozens of civilians were killed in the territory of Rutshuru in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) due to artillery bombardments of the M23, despite the fact that ...
• 5 November 2013
  EUROPE/HUNGARY – Confirmation of the national Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 13 April 2013 confirmed Fr. Benvin Sebastian Madassery, of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) a ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of national Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fide ) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 5, 2013 appointed Fr. Osvaldo Duarte Ramirez, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We want peace!": The Bishop of Apatzingan leads a march with thousands of faithful Apatzingán (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Mexican diocese of Apatzingá, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Patiño Velazquez has not been placed under close surveillance by the police and by federal forces because he is target ...
• 5 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church looks into the future: from the General Assembly a new pastoral plan Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands opens today, November 5, in Madang (Papua New Guinea). As reported to Fides by the communications Office of the Epis ...
• 5 November 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Parish priest brutally assaulted in Pretoria Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "I cannot believe that anyone is capable of committing something so cruel to a priest. It is really shocking", said Mgr. William Matthew Slattery, Archbishop of Pretoria, after visiting Fr. Cra ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children do not want to speak indigenous languages for fear of discrimination Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the number of children or young indigenous people who continue to speak their native language decreases due to the fear of being marginalized. According to a research carried out by th ...
• 5 November 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Christians in prayer for reconciliation between North and South, in the demilitarized zone Busan (Agenzia Fides) - More than 800 faithful Christians of different denominations, participants in the tenth World Assembly of the "Ecumenical Council of Churches" underway in Busan (October 30 to November 8), yesterd ...
• 5 November 2013
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN – Children trafficking continues to increase: the last case of a girl kidnapped in Somalia for the sale of organs London (Agenzia Fides) - Human trafficking as well as that of the organs does not only occur in the poorest Countries in order to overcome the extreme poverty in which they live. The phenomenon is also widespread in the ...
• 4 November 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Don Orione Opera opens a Centre for Syrian refugees Zarqa (Agenzia Fides) - Two hundred Syrian refugee families will soon find accommodation in the Family, Youth and Refugee Centre, a new reception structure in Zarqa (Jordan) set up by the Don Orione Opera. The building w ...
• 4 November 2013
  ASIA/NEPAL - Protestant Christian pastor killed while praying Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Mourning and anger in the Christian community in Nepal: the 36-year old Christian pastor of the evangelical community "Gospel for Asia", was killed in past days in the village of Phattepur, Ne ...
• 4 November 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of Archbishop of Mombasa and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 1 November 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Mombasa (Kenya), by His Exc. Mgr. Boniface Lele, in accordance with can. 401 ...
• 4 November 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Christians whipped: judgment accomplished for Eucharistic wine drinkers Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The sentence of 80 lashes for Christians convicted for "having drunk alcohol", during a Christian liturgy (see Fides 24/10/2013), was carried out. As Fides learns, Behzad Taalipasand and Mehdi Da ...
• 4 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A net divides the two countries, many families and even the altar for the Mass for Migrants Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - Some people were able to meet after months and even after years: the occasion was a Mass for Migrants, which is celebrated annually on the first Saturday of November at the "Rancho Anapra" ...
• 4 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The defeat of the M23 seems likely but there are 40 other armed groups in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese army offensive against the rebels of the M23 in North Kivu (eastern DRC ) continues, despite the unilateral ceasefire announced on Sunday, November 3 by the leadership of the rebe ...