News

• 2 September 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After reaching a military agreement with Somalia, Cairo warns Ethiopia about the filling of the Nile dam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are ready to exercise our right to defend and protect the rights and interests of the Egyptian people, in accordance with the UN Charter." This is the warning issued by the Egyptian government ...
• 
  2 September 2024
  Pope Francis Enforcing Four Principles for Social Harmony During Asia-Pacific Apostolic Mission by Victor Gaetan*   Rome (Fides News Agency) - Pope Francis’s ambitious 4-country pilgrimage, September 2-13, will include countless, colorful encounters as young countries greet the pontiff and he, in turn, ...
• 
  31 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A priest from Jakarta and his flock: “We live the joy of the Gospel that Francis brings us” Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - "The figure is joy, contentment, cheer". Father Justin Solistiadi, 60-year-old vice-parish priest in the parish of Saint John Mary Vianney in the east of the capital, Jakarta, told Fides New ...
• 31 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Diocese of Lodwar, where the second largest refugee camp in Kenya lies Nairobi (Fides News Agency) – "My diocese is essentially an area for first evangelization that also houses over 250,000 refugees from neighboring countries, South Sudan, Sudan, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia", Fide ...
• 
  31 August 2024
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - A Missionary among fellow prisoners: Ján Havlík is blessed by Chiara Dommarco Šaštín (Fides News Agency) - "Where is God in the darkness of history? Faith helps to acknowledge that He is here, writing his love story, "said Father Emil Hoffmann CM, vice postulator of the Ca ...
• 
  30 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Media attention and Indonesian books (of Muslim authorship as well) dedicated to the Pope; the special commitment of the Kompas group by Paolo Affatato Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - Indonesia's mass media are preparing for the Pope's visit as attention increases within the realm of culture and among the entire population for the pontiff's presence ...
• 
  30 August 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Pontifical Urban University "has an identity of its own" and should not be "blended" with other universities Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We do not live in a Christian society, but we are called to live as Christians in today’s pluralistic society." And a historical and prestigious institution such as the Pontifical Ur ...
• 30 August 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Egypt and Somalia's military agreement alarms Ethiopia Mogadishu (Fides News Agency) – "The region is entering uncharted waters" a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia warned, in reference to the new situation developing ...
• 
  29 August 2024
  VATICAN - The future of the Pontifical Urbaniana University at the center of the Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Missionary Dicastery by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - The Pontifical Urbaniana University is approaching an important crossroads in its long and unparalleled history. Today and tomorrow, August 29 and 30, the members of the ...
• 
  28 August 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Systematically turning migrants away is a grave sin" Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "This must be said clearly: there are people who work systematically and with every means to turn migrants away. And this, when done with cognizance and responsibility, is a grave sin. ...
• 
  28 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Those priests born of Muslim mothers: interreligious families, the Indonesian figure by Paolo Affatato Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – Recounting the feast for his episcopal ordination, Ciprianus Hormat, bishop of Ruteng - on the Indonesian island of Flores - mentions, almost en passant, the wide and ...
• 
  27 August 2024
  Cardinal Tagle: the Pope's journey to Asia and Oceania is an "act of humility and obedience to the mission" by Gianni Valente and Fabio Beretta Rome (Fides News Agency) - Four nations in two continents, for a total of almost 40 thousand kilometers to cover. The papal plane will take off from Fiumicino airport on September ...
• 26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 20 students kidnapped on August 15 have been freed Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "After an 8-day ordeal, our 20 colleagues are back with us and their families" said a statement by FECAMDS (Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students) which announced the release of ...
• 26 August 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb" says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Fides News Agency) – "Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb". This was the alarm raised by Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri, President of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in his opening address t ...
• 
  26 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Moscow-linked Orthodox Church "banned" in Ukraine: reactions and developments by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Fides News Agency) - Following the approval by Kiev's Verkhovna Rada of Bill 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order within the purview of the activities of religious organizatio ...