News

• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Catholics in southern India: urgent instruction Christian families Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges facing family life: a Catholic response”: this was the theme discussed recently in view of the Synod of Bishops for the Family due to be held in Rome in October. The Catholic ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment San José (Agenzia Fides) –The National Children’s Hospital in Costa Rica (HNN) recently held the 5th edition of a sports event whic ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Christian MP in Iraq’s new government Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian MP is among the Ministers in a new government of Iraq approved yesterday by Parliament with a majority of 177 out of 289. The new minister is Chaldean Christian Faris Yusef Jajo, f ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – majority of child workers in Mexico’s south east regions Mérida (Agenzia Fides) – In the Mexican state of Yucatan about 4, 680 children aged between 5 and 17 live in situations of extreme vulnerability. They work in the fields, on building sites, in manufacturing and comm ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The murdered nuns will be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says former regional Xavarian superior Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “All three of the murdered Italian nuns had serious health conditions , but all three, AFRICA/BURUNDI - “The murdered nuns asked to be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says f ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – New equipe for missionary animation in the land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Two intense days of prayer, reflection and listening to testimony, held 5 and 6 September, involved some forty participants in a “missionary animation” session convoked by Carmelite pri ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - JRS: optimistic about release of Jesuit priest taken hostage in June Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – “Moderate optimism” has been voiced by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) regarding the wellbeing and release of Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, 47 year old Jesuit kidnapped in the area of Herat last ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Postponed until October 16 next hearing for the Asia Bibi appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In a hearing this morning lasting only a few minutes, the High Court of Lahore, Judge Anwar Ul Haq adjourned the Asia Bibi appeal, postponing it 16 October, Fides was informed by the lawyers of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - “We have been blessed with good leadership: let’s vote to preserve this heredity” says Bishop of Gaborone Gaborone (Agenzia Fides)- “It is our duty, as citizens, exercise our right to choose leaders and government who will respect human dignity and work to improve the lives of everyone” Bishop Valentine Tsamma Seane, of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: “at each mass I speak about Ebola and how to avoid infection” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – “Ebola is such a virulent virus that it is not easily treated; only experts can run the test to identify the virus and determine the stage of the infection. Therefore the Catholic Church, t ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI -Three Xaverian Missionaries killed in Burundi: the mission is full of people anxious to express sympathy with the sisters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – Three Italian Xaverian sisters have been killed in Burundi, at the mission of Kamenge. The news was confirmed to Fides by Sister Giordana, Directress General of the Xaverian missionary sist ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy, later withdrawn, against 31 Christians in a Punjab village Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – A typical case of abuse of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law, which would appear now to have been resolved thanks to intervention by the local police – a rare event – happened reportedly in th ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 9 September, date for next hearing in the trial of Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow 9 September, has been set as the date for the next hearing in an appeal by Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman facing a death sentence for blasphemy. Fides was informed by the High Court in L ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/LESOTHO – The Pope and the Bishops call for dialogue to resolve the crisis in Lesotho Maseru (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Lesotho remains tense after the failure of an attempted coup on 30 August led by rebel general Tlali Kamoli, now in hiding in the hills with a few faithful heavily armed milit ...
• 8 September 2014
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Passionate Communicators of the Good News”: meeting for Cono sur Pontifical Mission Societies Canelones (Agenzia Fides) – “Missionary Disciples, passionate communicators of the Good News,” is the theme of reflection and discussion for national Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies ( ...