News

• 11 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian family flees to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To escape to save two Christian girls from being converted to Islam: this is the tragic solution adopted by Nadeem Maqbol (45 years old) and by his wife, Nabeela Nadeem, a Christian couple from ...
• 11 September 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Contribution of the Church for a monument to reconciliation, which inspires to seek peace San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Thirty-three boxes full of unused keys were handed over yesterday by the Archdiocese of San Salvador to the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) to build a monument to Reconciliation, intended to ...
• 11 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Air raids hit areas adjacent to two churches in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Air raids carried out to attack the positions of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), who have settled in Mosul, have heavily damaged buildings adjacent to two churches in the eastern area of ...
• 11 September 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In few days 25 thousand Iraqi Chaldeans have registered in the lists to apply for a USA visa San Diego (Agenzia Fides) - The exodus of Christians who have fled Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plain due to the advancing of jihadists and the proclamation of the Islamic Caliphate has caused a significant increa ...
• 11 September 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - "There is a high level of alert against Ebola, villages in quarantine, hunger and malnutrition": the Director of CUAMM has just returned from the Country Padova (Agenzia Fides) - In Sierra Leone Ebola continues to claim victims. Don Dante Carraro, Director of the NGO Doctors with Africa CUAMM has just returned from the African Country, where there are volunteers of the NG ...
• 11 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Ethnic groups and oil in the Libyan civil war Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The clash between Islamist militias and so-called "nationalists" in Libya is turning into an ethnic clash with the intervention of guerrillas of the Tubu tribe of Kufra in the south of Cyrenaica ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – US Catholic Bishops make Holy Land pilgrimage to 'pray for peace' Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On Thursday 11 September a group of 18 Catholic Bishops from the United States of America will begin a pilgrimage to visit the places where Jesus lived his earthly life with the specific in ...
• 10 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation AFRICA/NIGERIA – Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Boko Haram has escaped even its Nigerian sponsors and risks becoming an internation ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Severe floods, Caritas sends volunteers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – With severe floods affecting the life of the people in the Pakistan provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Jammu and Kashmir, Caritas Pakistan has mobilised its volunteers to respond to the emergency. ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic priest says: Christians will return to the Plain of Ninive only when and if Mosul is freed Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – With the uncertain prospects in the region of north Iraq the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Moshe, and the faithful of his diocese have decided to try to return to Qaraqosh ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - “Young people without frontiers”: witnesses and proclaimers of the faith to the world of today Lima (Agenzia Fides) –Young missionaries (Youth without Frontiers) members of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru will gather in Lima 20 and 21 September for their 2nd National Meeting. Two the principal reasons ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – Fighting poverty and undernourishment to escape underdevelopment Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Indicators of poverty and undernourishment in this country show clearly that unless Guatemalans win the battle against this scourge, the country will remain in the present state of und ...
• 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 ...