News

• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR – A Congolese nun wins the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - "She is a true heroine", said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in announcing the Nansen Refugee Award to Sister Angélique Namaika, a Congolese nun who works in the nort-e ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: Patriarch Sako's appeal to Christian politicians Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) – With regards to the upcoming general elections for the Kurdistan region of Iraq - set for Saturday, September 21 - the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako appealed to t ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Seminary "Saint Jean-Marie Vianney" in Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 July 2013 appointed Rev. Achille Djihounouck, of the clergy of the Diocese of Ziguinchor as Re ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The deaths of poor children are 5 times higher in Latin America than in the rest of the world Panama (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the decline in the maternal mortality rate, there continues to be serious inequalities regarding access to health services for women and children because of poverty in Latin America. ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Your Holiness, pray for peace in the DRC": letter from "Première Dame" to Pope Francis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Congolese people, who I humbly represent, I would like to ask His Holiness for the intercession of prayer for lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo", asks Ms. Mari ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - School lessons for 7 hours a day next to a landfill and among stray dogs Pachuca (Agenzia Fides) - The pupils of the Ignacio Zaragoza elementary school, which is situated in the El Huixmi community, in Pachuca, a city in south-central Mexico, capital of the state of Hidalgo, are forced to liv ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Forming a conscious citizen of the right to peace": month for peace in Sincelejo Sincelejo (Agenzia Fides ) - "If you want peace in Colombia, one must form a conscious citizen to have the right to peace. But it is also necessary that people have the right to protest, without violence, and also has th ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "Dangerous escalation in Zamboanga: the government has not explored all possible diplomatic channels" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict in Zamboanga between government troops and rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), which, in ten days has caused, according to latest figures sent to Fides, ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Bishops' Pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On September 10, 21 Korean Bishops made, for the first time, a pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines in Seoul, to celebrate the Year of Faith and the Month of Martyrs. The Archdiocese of Seoul ...
• 16 September 2013
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of Bafoussam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Francis, on 14 September 2013, accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Bafoussam (Cameroon), by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Simo, in accordance with the canons ...
• 16 September 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The priest attacked with acid in Zanzibar transferred to Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam ( Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest, Fr. Anselmo Mwanga'mba, was attacked with acid by unknown assailants which caused him serious injury, on the island of Zanzibar (Tanzania), on September 13. "The acid ...
• 16 September 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The right to a better education, better teachers and beautiful classrooms Chipata (Agenzia Fides) - In the world, 775 million adults cannot read and write. Literacy is much more than an educational priority, it is a great investment in the future and the first step towards the new skills nee ...
• 16 September 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Argentinian priest beatified "who smelt of his sheep, a poor person among the poor" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics attended the beatification of the Argentinian priest, José Brochero on Saturday, September 14, who died of leprosy in 1914. The celebration of the Mass was presided by Ca ...
• 16 September 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - "Hope does not disappoint", Cuban Bishops' letter asking for political reforms Havana (Agenzia Fides ) - "The hopes of a better future also include new political order", says the Cuban Catholic Bishops' pastoral letter entitled "Hope does not disappoint" ("La esperanza not defraud"), which calls th ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Meeting of the Latin Bishops of the Arab world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On September 17 the ordinary meeting of the representatives of the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (Conférence des Evêques latins dans les régions arabes, CELRA) begins in Rome, ...