News

• 28 August 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – An "Interfaith Muslim-Christian Council" begins in the home of Abu Sayyaf Jolo (Agenzia Fides) - After a year of preparation work, the "Interfaith Council of Leaders-Sulu" has officially started, the small string of islands in the southern Philippines, known for being the home and the basis of ...
• 28 August 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Zheng Ding welcomes three new workers of the vineyard of the Lord Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,600 faithful from different dioceses in mainland China on August 22, 2013 attended the priestly ordination of three new priests of the Diocese of Zheng Ding (today Shi Jia Zhu ...
• 28 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Nobel Prize Laureate Maguire: "A military action will destabilize the Middle East, we need a political solution" Belfast (Agenzia Fides) - "A military action of the U.S. or NATO forces will not solve the problems of Syria. It could lead to the death of thousands of Syrians and the shattering of Syria. It will mean the further escap ...
• 28 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal from Deir Mar Musa: "No to military intervention and all forms of violence" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - While a military attack of Western armed forces in Syria seems imminent, "an appeal for peace and the rejection of all forms of violence" rises from the monastery of Deir Mar Musa (The Monaster ...
• 28 August 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Displaced Congolese: victims of a serious car accident in Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - 17 deaths, 30 seriously injured, another twenty slightly injured. This is the toll of a serious road accident in Uganda whose victims are Congolese refugees who fled from Kamango, in the territo ...
• 28 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Intervention against Syria would be "a disaster" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The US-led military intervention against Syria would be "a disaster. It would be like a volcano erupting with an explosion meant to destroy Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine. And maybe someone wants this ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Increase sea fishing to contibuire the fight against poverty Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The industrial maritime fisheries sector, which accounts for 35% of the total activity of fishing in Angola, is being relaunched in the African country to fight hunger and poverty. According to t ...
• 27 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A program to reduce the trafficking of girls Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) – Human trafficking, mainly women and girls, is one of the most serious violations of human dignity and human rights. Alarmed by the increase in cases of trafficking and exploitation of tribal gi ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian Churches defend the Imam of Al Azhar against the attacks by Erdogan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Council of Christian Churches in Egypt, Father Bishoy Helmy, has rejected and deplored, on behalf of the Egyptian Christians, the hostile statements aimed at Turkish P ...
• 27 August 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Let us give a hand to fulfil the dream of study" Wan Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty university students from poor families received financial aid on August 23 from the Diocese of Wan Zhou in Si Chuan province in mainland China. The initiative is part of the campaign "Le ...
• 27 August 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop of Seoul and Cardinal Grocholewski: education as a means of evangelization in Asia Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Re-launching education and the formation of the clergy as a way to evangelize Asian nations: is the orientation which emerged during the talks between the Archbishop of Seoul, His Exc. Mgr. Yeom ...
• 27 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako to the Christians of Kurdistan: Do not sell your homes Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako addressed to the Christians of Iraqi Kurdistan a strong reminder to "cling to their villages" and not to sell the houses and lands ...
• 27 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A testimony from Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Life goes on, and the situation is calm. The fighting between the army and rebels of the M23 is far from the city, although from 22 to 24 August Goma was hit by long-range artillery fire" say ...
• 27 August 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Church calls for authentic alliance with the State, especially with regards to social policy Goroka (Agenzia Fides) – State and Church in Papua New Guinea should find "authentic alliance": This is what the Christian community in Papua New Guinea calls for, after the celebration of the "National Day of Alliance ...
• 26 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The turbulent context of Raqqa and the mission of Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – This silence regarding the fate of the Jesuit Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio, who disappeared about a month ago in the area of Raqqa, generates fear and concern in the Christian community and in Syrian so ...