News

• 30 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Week of Prayer for Peace in Syria Paris ( Agenzia Fides) - A week of prayer for peace in Syria begins today, August 30, and will last until September 6 in the 17 countries where the work of pontifical right "Aid to the Church in Need" (ACS) is present. A ...
• 30 August 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic community: the fruits of an intense pastoral summer Shi Jia Zhuang ( Agenzia Fides) - The Sacraments of Christian initiation, the missionary mandate given to readers, extraordinary ministers and students, are the result of the pastoral summer which has just ended, of the ...
• 30 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Matta Roham : "It is easy to launch air strikes, difficult to stop the consequences" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides ) - "It is easy to pave the way for air strikes on Syria, but it is difficult to end the war and the consequences of these attacks throughout the Middle East": is the comment, entrusted to Fides A ...
• 30 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Seven people killed by the rebels Seleka in the north-west of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Still chaos and violence in the Central African Republic, a country that has been defined recently at risk of "Somalization" by French President François Hollande. The uncontrolled elements of t ...
• 30 August 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Summit of the Leaders of Middle Eastern Churches sponsored by the Hashemite Monarchy Amman ( Agenzia Fides) - A summit of the leaders of Churches and Christian communities in the Middle East starts on Tuesday, September 3 in Amman to focus on the many problems and challenges that closely affect the lives ...
• 30 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The phenomenon of child beggars needs to be stopped Durango ( Agenzia Fides) - There are about hundreds of people who "work" on the streets, selling all kinds of goods or begging in the city of Durango. Most of them are minors who are exploited by their parents to "touch ...
• 30 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "17 artillery shells fired on Goma" denounce the Congolese NGOs Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides ) - "A total of 17 artillery shells were fired on civilian targets, which resulted in loss of life, severe damage to property and a generalized fear in the popular areas of Goma", said a statemen ...
• 29 August 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Pope Francis to the Archdiocese of Seoul : "The martyrs as the way of faith and evangelization" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis "prays that the Month of Korean Martyrs can be an opportunity for pilgrims to rekindle the faith in their hearts and so commit themselves more fully to the urgent task of evangelizati ...
• 29 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Sharif’s Pakistan stops the executioner Islamabad ( Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani government led by Nawaz Sharif, leader of the "Pakistan Muslim League -N" has officially suspended 468 capital executions, confirming the moratorium that has existed in the coun ...
• 29 August 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - More than 8,000 refugees damaged by sudden torrential rains Sana'a ( Agenzia Fides) - Torrential rains have destroyed half of the camps and caused extensive damage in the three refugee camps (IDPs ) near Haradh, in north-western Yemen. More than 8,000 people have been affected, a ...
• 29 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The prayers of Aleppo so that the international military intervention is avoided Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "Here people live in uncertainty and are suffering, but no one expects the release from bombs and missiles of an outside military intervention. Even for me it would be madness to carry out acts o ...
• 29 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Real believers are working for peace", say Christian and Muslim leaders Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - "Those who claim to know God must love his neighbor and live in peace with everyone", said Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja to the interfaith seminar held at the Central Mo ...
• 29 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New bombing on Goma, but the rebels have suffered heavy losses Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Still more bombing on Goma, the capital of North Kivu ( eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) where the regular Congolese army, supported by the Brigade for UN intervention, is fighting against ...
• 29 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA – Perpetual night adoration to beg for peace and stop terrorism Qarah ( Agenzia Fides) - In the face of danger, the uncertain future, against the evil of war and terrorism, "powerful weapons are prayer and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament": in the Monastery of St. James in Qarah (c ...
• 29 August 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Ensuring food and health care to mothers in the early months of pregnancy to prevent born babies to die of hunger Guatemala City ( Agenzia Fides) - In Guatemala, according to official figures, a child under 5 years of age out of two suffer from chronic malnutrition because of the poverty in which 52% of the 15 million inhabitants of ...