News

• 
  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary among young alcoholics in the Amazon rainforest La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Giovanni Forasacco was 54 years old when he left Italy to be a missionary in Bolivia. He had joined the Pope John XXIII Community, founded by Don Oreste Benzi, and here matured the decision to go ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 18,000 pray for the family and migrants Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - From Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), 15 Bishops of the dioceses of the border area between the United States and Mexico, attended the celebration for the defense of the family and migrants. Accord ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mercy travels in eConference Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mercy: a way of being in the world" is the title of the new eConference (web conference) organized for September 20 by Broken Bay Institute, in the eponymous Australian dioceses, specialized in ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Summit of Church Leaders on the present and future of Christians in the Middle East Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 6, the XI General Assembly of the Council of Churches of the Middle East begins in Amman, with the participation of Leaders and representatives from all ecclesial real ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Week for Peace in Cali: "From dialogues to reconciliation agreements" Cali (Agenzia Fides) – In the context of the 29th edition of the "Week for Peace" which is celebrated in Colombia from 4 to 11 September (see Fides 01/09/2016), the Archdiocese of Cali, led by its Archbishop, His Exc. ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  VATICAN - The Pope recalls "the many religious women who give their lives without sparing" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mass celebrated yesterday, Sunday, September 4, in Saint Peter's Basilica for the Canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope Francis before the recitation of the Angelus, rec ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Alert in South Kivu due to the presence of armed groups from Burundi Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Ruzizi plain and its highlands in the province of South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, continues to deteriorate. The situation is so grim that it now r ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A road named after Mother Teresa inaugurated in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Chief Minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik officially inaugurated the road dedicated to Saint Mother Teresa on September 4, at 10.15 am (local time) in Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern India ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarchate rejects the "false allegations" regarding the involvement in the failed coup Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople deplores the "false allegations" that have circulated in recent days in the Turkish press regarding the involvement of Ecumenical Patriarch Barthol ...
• 
  5 September 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Constitutional Court rejects the appeal filed by the defeated candidate in the presidential elections Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court of Zambia rejected the appeal filed by Hakainde Hichilema, the defeated candidate in the presidential election by outgoing President, Edgar Lungu, paving the way for his ...
• 
  2 September 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A "Committee for Peace" to stop violence in Oruro Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - The Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Oruro, along with the Bishop of the Diocese of Oruro, His Exc. Mgr. Krzysztof Bialasik Wawrowska, SVD, announced the formation of a Committee ...
• 
  2 September 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Congress of the Dominicans on Human Rights, between past and future Salamanca (Agenzia Fides) - The Master General of the Order of Preachers (OP), Fr. Bruno Cadoré opened yesterday afternoon the "Dominicans conference in the promotion and defense of human rights: past, present and futur ...
• 
  2 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Synod of the Chaldean Church on the exodus of Christians, martyrs to be beatified and communities of the diaspora Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification of the Chaldean martyrs, pastoral and charitable interventions in favor of the displaced, the phenomenon of the emigration of Christians and the choice of the new Chaldean Bishop ...
• 
  2 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Taliban attack a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar: a Catholic layman killed Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Four Taliban militants attacked early this morning, at 5.30 am, a "Christian colony", a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan. The lay Catholic Samuel Masih, a father, ...
• 
  2 September 2016
  VATICAN - Seminar for the new Bishops of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - 94 Bishops have been appointed in the last two years in the ecclesiastical circumscriptions dependent on the Missionary Congregation, who will participate in a Study Seminar organized for t ...