News

• 
  8 September 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The National Director of the PMS: "The recognition of the legal personality of the Church is a step forward for a fruitful collaboration" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy because the Church has seen its legal personality recognized", says to Agenzia Fides Don Isidore Sola Nombrè, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burki ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Kidnapped nuns freed, the Bishop: "We ask for peace" Mocímboa da Praia (Agenzia Fides) - The two sisters of the congregation of St. Joseph of Chambery kidnapped on 12 August in Mocímboa da Praia (Mozambique) have been freed. This was announced yesterday, September 6, by ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Independence Day: "seeing the many riches that exist in our differences" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Independence Day should not be experienced as a simple holiday, but as a moment to celebrate the belief that all Brazilians, each with their own difference, depend on each other. A better, mor ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Towards World Mission Day: "face-to-face" activities resumed Lomé (Agenzia Fides) – To prepare the pastoral activities of missionary animation in view of missionary October and World Mission Sunday, October 18: with this aim in recent days, the National Director and the diocesa ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga for the Month of the Homeland: "Power is service and search for the common good" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, in his homily during yesterday's mass, referred to the Month of the Homeland that has just begun and to the political ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Armed groups control almost 80% of the territory and threaten our future", denounce the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are signs of hope, but the continued presence of armed groups threatens the future of the country". This is how the cry of alarm of the Bishops of the Central African Republic contained in ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  ASIA - Covid-19 and educational emergency: collaboration between governments and the private sector is urgently needed to support families Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education systems globally. According to UNICEF, the effects of the pandemic have affected more than 1.5 billion students globally, and 1 billion ...
• 
  7 September 2020
  ASIA/MACAO - From family to family: Claretian missionaries launch an initiative to feed the needy, inspired by Mother Teresa Macao (Agenzia Fides) - The Claretian missionaries have given life to an initiative to feed the needy in Macao, inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the saint who did so much for the poor and dispossessed in India. As ...
• 
  5 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A Carmelite: "The Congolese Church plays a fundamental role in the pacification process of the Country" Lubumbashi (Agenzia Fides) - "Congo is experiencing a profound social crisis, poverty and precariousness: at the origin of these problems, there is the interest of a minority in having all the wealth of the Country. Not ...
• 
  5 September 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Schools of forgiveness and reconciliation": the Bishops give new impetus to peaceful coexistence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A new pastoral agreement with the aim of promoting the method of the "Schools of Forgiveness and Reconciliation" (ES.PE.RE. is the abbreviation in Spanish), in an ecclesial and popular way s ...
• 
  5 September 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Bishop of El Obeid: "After thirty years of war that has disfigured religion, we hope peace does not remain only on paper" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "People here prefer to be cautious: it is the history of our Country since independence in 1956 to today that obliges us. But the peace agreement covers a large part of Sudan and it is very im ...
• 
  5 September 2020
  ASIA - Virus and poverty: the phenomenon of "child brides" worsens, political responses are urgently needed Pune (Agenzia Fides) - Tens of thousands of girls in various nations of Asia are forced, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, to marry at a very young. The girls come from families who live in poverty, aggravated by the coronav ...
• 
  5 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholics engaged in prevention campaigns and health services, vital during the pandemic Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea continues its commitment to offer prevention and awareness programs against Covid throughout the Country. Thanks to the support of the Secretariat of ...
• 
  4 September 2020
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Missionary Month focused on the commitment of the laity of Guinea and Switzerland Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - "Here I am: send me": this is the theme chosen for the Missionary Month of October by Missio, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Switzerland. The Church of Guinea and the role of the lait ...
• 
  4 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Celebrating the Time of Creation with the awareness that when our world is sick, we also get sick Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Every year from 1 September to 4 October the Christian family in the world gathers to celebrate the protection of our common home. "We rejoice in this Time of Creation which offers us the o ...