News

• 17 September 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Calm is back in Cairo; protesters paid to provoke clashes? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Cairo has now normalized. Calm has returned around the U.S. Embassy and in Tahrir Square. Traffic is back to normal and works are carried out to resettle the streets, scene of ac ...
• 17 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The religious identity of Bolivian citizens should be included in the national census Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - The religious identity of Bolivian citizens should be included in the national census of population and the housing that the central government has planned for the month of November, said the Bish ...
• 17 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A Campaign for the adoption of abandoned children La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - About 5 000 abandoned children live in reception centers of the Departmental Service for Social Management (Sedeges) of the Government of Cochabamba, many waiting to be adopted. In this regard, t ...
• 17 September 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Muhammad Sammak: "Everyone in Lebanon wanted the Pope to stay longer" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - " Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon showed the world that the Lebanese people, Christians and Muslims, are all on the same side, while the political parties and factions divide and create conflic ...
• 17 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs' hopes of peace after the Pope's visit to Lebanon Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Satisfaction and hope of the Christian Patriarchs in Damascus for a future of peace and reconciliation in Syria: in the aftermath of the Pope's visit the Christian leaders of Damascus, all in L ...
• 17 September 2012
  VATICAN - Benedict XVI in Lebanon, "in this region, which saw actions and heard words, may the Gospel continue to resonate as it did 2000 years ago and may it be lived today and for ever!" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "With the consigning of this document there now begins its study and appropriation by all the members of the Church, pastors, consecrated persons and lay people, so that everyone will find new jo ...
• 15 September 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Cardinal López Rodríguez denounces violence against women Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, publicly denounced the high number of cases of violence against women, and also warned that "this is a symptom that ...
• 15 September 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - "I work in a live, dynamic church, where there is everyone’s participation," says Mgr. Miguel Olaortúa, Apostolic Vicar of Iquitos, in the Amazon rainforest Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a live, dynamic church, with a lot of participation and engagement in society: are values make you understand the consideration that the faithful have of their Pastors." This is how His Exc ...
• 15 September 2012
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Arab Christians are hurt as much as and with Muslims," says the director of the PMS Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - We as Christians of the East, as Christians of the Arab world feel hurt when things happen like this happen," says to Fides Agency Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 15 September 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Archbishop Maroun Lahham: The Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI is a real help to the Christians of the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The post-synodal apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in the Middle East "is a high-profile pastoral text, with Biblical inspiration, full of useful tips that will help Christians in the Middle East to ...
• 14 September 2012
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - "The challenge of the sects, in the horizon of the new evangelization": Meeting of Bishops of the Lusophone countries Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenge of the sects, in the horizon of the new evangelization" was the theme of the 10th meeting of the representatives of the Episcopal Conferences of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), ...
• 14 September 2012
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Year of Faith": a challenge for young people Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith is "an opportunity to renew and revitalize our Catholic faith, and this may be easier for the youth of Papua New Guinea following the footsteps of Blessed Peter To Rot, a model ...
• 14 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Bishops of Aleppo, forced to give up the meeting with the Pope and launch an appeal to Benedict XVI for a ceasefire and reconciliation Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Aleppo has been in the middle of armed clashes between the rebels and the Syrian army for more than two months. The Council of the six Catholic Bishops of the second largest city of Syria had to ...
• 14 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Faithful, do not leave Syria!": Patriarchs’ Message, rallied around the Pope Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "With all my heart we ask the Christians of Syria not to leave our beloved country, despite the violence, the suffering, the displacement": This is what the Patriarchs of the Christian Churches ...
• 14 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The Church cannot ignore the field of human rights": three important events in the Bolivarian countries La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - This week, La Paz has become the home of three events organized by Caritas Latin America and the Caribbean. In the first case it is a meeting, with the participation of representatives of Caritas ...