News

• 8 July 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Kidnappings of Copts are increasing, appeal to President al-Sisi Nag Hammadi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Coalition of the Copts, an active organization in the Egyptian governorate of Qena, has addressed an urgent appeal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and to the Egyptian Interio ...
• 8 July 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - The chikungunya virus attacks the poor, even the Church is committed to keeping the disease under control Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The latest scourge in Haiti is chikungunya. It's a rarely fatal but intensely painful mosquito-borne virus that has spread rapidly through the Caribbean and parts of Latin America. Haiti ...
• 8 July 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – The Cathedral in Bambari besieged by rebels Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Saint-Joseph in Bambari, in the area where there are more than 12,000 displaced people, is surrounded by the rebels of Seleka, said the local Bishop launching an appeal to Fides ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More than 8 million indigenous women suffer physical and moral violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the National Commission of Human Rights, 8.1 million indigenous women suffer violence, abuse, physical and moral violence, as well as not having access to health services and ed ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Fearless against violence and insecurity, the conclusions of the Bishops’ Assembly María de la Altagracia (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Plenary Assembly of the Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED), the Bishops denounce the climate of insecurity, rising violence, the scourge of drug trafficking a ...
• 7 July 2014
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - "Protagonists of education, promoters of development": strengthening of primary schools in Shkodra Scutari (Agenzia Fides) - 600 children and 8 schools, 220 teachers and headmasters have benefited from the project to strengthen primary schools in Shkodra, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by AV ...
• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: the existence of Lebanon at risk Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The delay or postponement of the election of a new President of the Republic "threatens the very existence of Lebanon", because "only a Maronite President with broad consensus and appropriate pers ...
• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - False news regarding the kidnapping of a priest and a nun in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church in Mosul, through its Archbishop, Amel Shimon Nona denies the news launched on the web on Sunday, July 6th announcing the kidnapping of a priest and a nun by unidentified "arme ...
• 7 July 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The army and the UN did not intervene to stop the massacre in Mutarule, HRW denounces Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre of thirty civilians on June 6 in the village of Mutarule, in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could have been avoided (see Fides 12/06/2014), if the UN Peacekeepers ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The President receives requests to stop the law on therapeutic abortion Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - In a public letter addressed to the President of the Republic of Peru, also the Archbishop of Trujillo, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, has expressed his strong opposition to the introdu ...
• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - For the poor and against injustice: the testimony of Father Romano, who was kidnapped 29 years ago, is always present Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of Fr. Rudy Romano, a Redemptorist missionary priest (CSSR), who was abducted by suspected military on 11 July 1985, was cited by the Archbishop of Cebu His Exc. Mgr. Jose Palma, in h ...
• 7 July 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than two thousand women widowed largely by the Boko Haram insurgency assisted by the Diocese of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The widows suffer a lot once the husbands are gone, they become neglected, most of the family members do not come close to them, let alone to help them. We have an obligation to take care of the ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Appointment of the Bishop of Colón - Kuna Yala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 7, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Manuel Ochogavía Barahona, O.S.A., Prior, Chancellor of the diocese and parish priest in the diocese of Chitre, as Bishop of the Diocese of C ...
• 5 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Escape from terrorism and extremism: the exodus of religious minorities has started Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the spread of terrorism in Pakistan, insecurity, the very difficult living conditions, religious minorities have begun to abandon Pakistan. In the past year about 14 thousand Pakistani ...
• 5 July 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Assembly of Bishops begins: Analysis of social reality and new directives Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – To analyze the social, economic, religious and political life of the country, in addition to strengthening the bonds of communion among the Bishops: is the central objective of this XCVII Plena ...