News

• 30 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - 54 Hindu extremists responsible for anti-Christian violence in Orissa have been acquitted Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Acquitted for lack of evidence: for this reason a court of Orissa has acquitted 54 Hindu extremists responsible for looting and anti-Christian violence carried out in December 2007, in Kandh ...
• 30 October 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chief of the Lebanese Security: the two bishops kidnapped have been localized Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The place where the two kidnapped bishops of Aleppo seem to be has been identified, and "indirect contact" has begun with the kidnappers in order to obtain their release. This was declared by Gen ...
• 30 October 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new Bishop in Faisalabad: 10 thousand at the Mass with Cardinal Filoni Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a moment of joy and hope. We are happy because the Year of Faith has given us a new Pastor who will help us to strengthen our faith. The problems and challenges in the area are many. T ...
• 30 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "To intervene effectively to stop the violence in Michoacán": the Bishops’ request Apatzingán (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico have asked the federal, state and municipal authorities to carry out an urgent, rapid and effective action against abductions, kidnappings, murders and bribes that affe ...
• 30 October 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - The leaders of Catholic schools: with the "Arab springs" negative impact on freedom of education Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "Arab Springs" have had so far in many Countries of North Africa and the Middle East a negative impact on freedom of education, which has penalized the traditional educational work c ...
• 30 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Social Inclusion, always together with building social peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "One cannot think about peace without overcoming the trauma left by the conflict", said the Director of the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral (SNPS/Caritas Colombia), Msr. Hector Fabio Hen ...
• 30 October 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Help for the end of the earth": a new mobile health auxiliary in the archipelago of the Solomon Islands Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The aim of the project - "Help for the end of the earth" - is to set up a new health auxiliary and provide for formation of local health personnel to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, tubercul ...
• 29 October 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Every day from 8 to 20 children are admitted to hospital for dengue Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - 29 children have died due to dengue since the beginning of the year at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital in Santo Domingo, 1561 cases have been registered, and 23 patients are cur ...
• 29 October 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuits on the Syrian conflict: Let’s stop arms dealers Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In order to understand and stop the conflict in Syria "one should recognize and call by name the real interests at stake, at a local, regional and international level, which do not correspond to th ...
• 29 October 2013
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS -Appointment of the Rector of the "Holy Name of Mary" Seminary in Honiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 3, 2013 appointed rev. Fr. Teclemicael Tewolde Neguse, of the Congregation of the Mission (CM ...
• 29 October 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Resignation of the Bishop of El Obeid and successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 28 October 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of El Obeid (Sudan), by His Exc. Mgr. Macram Max Gassis M.C.C.J., in accordance wit ...
• 29 October 2013
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Aid from humanitarian organizations to people affected by monsoons and floods Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - A month of monsoon rains and floods in Cambodia has claimed the lives of 168 people, over a hundred thousand homeless in 20 of the 24 provinces of the Country, including some parts of the cap ...
• 29 October 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Closing of the Year of Faith, praying for peace, but churches are empty because of fear Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - "Sincere dialogue between the government and re-armed groups must take precedence over weapons, because war does not leave anything good", said His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, ...
• 29 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church also involved in the wave of violence: other priests threatened Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of violence in Mexico does not stop and even the priests have been victims of attempted extortion on behalf of criminal gangs. At least three priests have been contacted by crimi ...
• 29 October 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More funds from the government to the Minister for Religious Affairs: appeal to promote harmony Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Indonesian government has steadily increased over the past five years funds to the Ministry for Religious Affairs, which has increased by 25% per annum since 2008. The trend, say Fides sourc ...