News

• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 21 Copts kidnapped and murdered by jihadists in Libya are “martyrs for the faith” says Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – At the news of the massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts decapitated in Libya by jihadists affiliated with the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Patriarch of Alexandria of Coptic Catholics, Ibrahim Isaa ...
• 16 February 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For 20 years a group of women has offered railway-line assistance to emigrants travelling towards the United States Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) – “These women known as 'La Patrona' group counteract the selfishness, pride and greed of politicians and government which has produced chaos and forced people to move away in order to survi ...
• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - March against Boko Haram; Christians call nation to unite Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Anti-Christian violence which affected the Catholic community in Nigeria in January has the same roots as Boko Haram activity now threatening Niger, Fides learned in a message from the Groupe ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Prayers for a dying woman: five Pastors charged with “abuse of medical profession” ASIA/LAOS – Prayers for a dying woman: five Pastors charged with “abuse of medical profession” Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – Five Christian pastors, leaders of five different communities, have been charged by th ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA – New Archbishop of Samarinda appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 16 February 2015, has appointed Archbishop of Samarinda (Indonesia) Mons Yustinus Harjosusanto, M.S.F., until now Bishop of Tanjung Selor. (SL) (Agenzi ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Expectation for appeal verdict for the murderer of governor Taseer ASIA/PAKISTAN – Expectation for appeal verdict for the murderer of governor Taseer Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The High Court of Islamabad, after its last hearing suspended judgement regarding the case of Mumtaz Q ...
• 16 February 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Ten years ago the assassination of Sr Dorothy Stang, a seed which is bearing copious fruit Balsas (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Brazil marked the 10 anniversary of the death of Sister Dorothy Stang and her dedication to the evangelization of the peoples of Amazonia. "Her humble, silent and almost ...
• 16 February 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Mosul jihadist “patrols” ban Saint Valentine Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – In the days leading up to February 14, St Valentine's Day, Service Utility Vehicles and pick-ups driven by IS jihadist activists patrolled the town’s busiest market and shopping areas using ...
• 16 February 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – Chaos in Parliament; after 20 years of democracy the nation deserves better the Catholic Bishops say Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference is concerned about recent events in Parliament on occasion of the President’s address on the State of the Nation” says a statement se ...
• 14 February 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Testimony from Niamey: A source of inspiration for peaceful co-existence! Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Nicolas Ayouba, Superior of the Vice Province of West Africa of the Redemptorists, sent a letter to Fides with comments of a journalist from Niger, which we publish below: A source of ins ...
• 14 February 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Uncertain future after Nepal fails to agree on constitution Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Constituent Assembly of Nepal failed to agree and approve a draft of the new constitution and the deadline was January 22: This step opens a future of uncertainty and instability and gener ...
• 14 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government: the fate of the Copts kidnapped in Libya remains unclear Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While the jihadists of the Libyan branch of the Islamic State take control of the city of Sirte, the fate of 21 Christians kidnapped in Libya and held hostage remains unclear. This is what the Egy ...
• 14 February 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mgr. Buenanueva:"We need good quality citizens" San Francisco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco (Córdoba, Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva, in a statement sent to Fides said that "Argentine democracy is sick, it needs the ...
• 13 February 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Civil society: "Confidence in the hundred days of the new government's reforms" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Request for "solid protection of human rights" in Sri Lanka and to "end the culture of impunity"; confidence in the "program of one hundred days of reforms" that place the rule of law and democr ...
• 13 February 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Medical mission prepared the first "Day of the Sick" in the history of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "For the first time in the history of the diocese of Maumere, Flores island, Indonesia, the World Day of the Sick was celebrated, on February 11, in the Cathedral, with a solemn Eucharistic Litu ...