News

• 
  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Two Sisters killed: women of faith, at the service of the poor Durant (Agenzia Fides) - Two nuns, Sisters Margaret Held, of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN), and Sister Paula Merrill, of the School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF), were killed with knives in their home in Duran ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: "With the first priest, the Church in Mongolia is a mother who gives birth to a child" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank the Lord who has called me to serve him through priesthood. I am also grateful to all the people who helped me to answer this call. I hope there will soon be other vocations to prie ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political maneuvers on the future of the Nineveh Plain. The Chaldean Patriarch: it is unwise to talk now of self-determination Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The future political and administrative arrangement of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, after the eventual liberation of those areas still under the control of the self-proclaimed Islamic State jiha ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "We cannot irresponsibly give in to the perverse logic of violence" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We, Bishops of Bolivia, raise our voice of pain, indignation and denunciation regarding the spiral of violence that engulfs our country in this period and has already caused the deaths of at ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionaries of Charity attacked at home, desecrated the tabernacle Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Sisters of Charity living in Mar del Plata, were attacked and beaten in their home. Criminals also desecrated the tabernacle of the chapel and managed to steal 50 pesos, all ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The bill on the construction of churches under the consideration of the Council of State Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Egyptian Council of State in charge of evaluating the legislative work has begun its review of the new draft law on the construction of churches, whose latest version was pre ...
• 
  29 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Practice mercy in the media Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – Put into practice mercy even in working with the media: in this spirit the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Mumbai lived a seminar in which they deepened some techniques and the use of c ...
• 
  27 August 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Bishop Lahham to Jordanian Christians: in the elections vote who spoke good of the Church Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 20, Christians of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are called to exercise their right and duty to vote in a consciou ...
• 
  27 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violent raid in a Christian neighborhood in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian area "Khushal Town" in Faisalabad was attacked in past days by a crowd of Muslims who caused injuries to some Christians, including women, four young people and a senior. Christ ...
• 
  27 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor beaten by Hindu militants New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sunny Tyagi, who converted to Christianity and became a Protestant Pastor, was beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals who broke into a private house where a prayer meeting in the district of Gonda, ...
• 
  27 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Synod approves the law on the construction of churches. But there are doubts and disagreements Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A long-debated draft law concerning the building and restoration of churches was approved in past days. The Cabinet's approval follows a prolonged back and forth between church representatives and ...
• 
  26 August 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: illustrate the agreements, build a Colombia reconciled and at peace Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome with hope the opportunities that should lead to putting an end to the armed conflict that has marked the history of the country for more than fifty years": is what the Bishops of Col ...
• 26 August 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Archbishop of N'Djaména Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 August 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Edmond Djitangar, Bishop of Sarh as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena, in Chad. His Exc. Mgr. Edmond Djitangar was born o ...
• 
  26 August 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australia agrees to close refugee prison camp: satisfaction of the Church Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The refugee detention camp on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea territory) will be shut down, a building managed by the Australian Government, at the center of strong controversy for the inhumane tr ...
• 
  26 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - With the first native priest, "the Catholic Church is no longer foreign" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mongolia is ready to welcome its first native priest: Joseph Enkh will be ordained to priesthood by His Exc. Mgr. Wenceslao Padilla, CICM, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanba ...