News

• 3 September 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians in Qamishli collect aid for Yazidis fleeing Iraq Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – It lasted only 72 hours, but was of great symbolic value, a popular campaign to collect food, drugs and clothing organised over the past few days by Christians in the Syrian city of Qamishli ...
• 3 September 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Humanitarian emergency for more than 30.000 people fleeing Boko Haram Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) – More than 30.000 people represent a serious humanitarian emergency on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Most are Nigerians fleeing the advancing front of Boko Haram, the Islamist s ...
• 3 September 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Dominicans: “Dialogue as a Way of Preaching” ASIA/INDONESIA - Dominicans: “Dialogue as a Way of Preaching” Surabaya (Agenzia Fides) – Dialogue is a privileged form of Christian preaching, particularly in Muslim countries. This emerged during a Dominican Fami ...
• 3 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Floods in Orissa: Caritas appeal for the victims Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) A serious humanitarian situation threatens more than 3,5 million people. It is urgent to launch a programme of emergency aid to help the flood victims in Orissa: Caritas India launches through Fi ...
• 2 September 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – A missionary says “thank you Pope Francis: now it is up to us” Suwon (Agenzia Fides) – “We Catholics in Korea thank Pope Francis for the unforgettable words and witness he left with us. Now it is up to us, here in Korea, to work to see that these ‘seeds of a new world grow and ...
• 2 September 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops’ Conference promotes television debate between candidates for Presidency San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) – A Brazilian TV station, Red Siglo 21, will televise a debate in the evening of September 16 involving candidates for presidency of the Republic of Brazil. The election is set for 5 October. ...
• 2 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic school headmaster beaten and detained on false charges Raipur (Agenzia Fides) – A totally unjustified attack on a Catholic school provoked anger and distress among Catholics in the central-northern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Fides was informed by Archbishop Victor Henry ...
• 2 September 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Dismay for the death, only months apart, of the two army officers who defeated M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “We are orphans since the death of General Lucien Bahuma Ambamba who raised the banner for Congo’s armed forces” says a report sent to Fides by the civil society in North Kivu in the east ...
• 2 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarchal delegation visits Gaza: “it is like the cities devastated by World War II” ASIA/HOLY LAND – Latin Patriarch delegation visits Gaza: “it is like the cities devastated by World War II” Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - “We visited the district of Sajaya, where 80 per cent of homes and other bu ...
• 2 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – New National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 13 June 2014 appointed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies (PMS) in So ...
• 2 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 March 2014, confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies for anothe ...
• 2 September 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – new step forward to restoring peace in the country Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- A new step in the process of Mozambique’s national reconciliation following the agreement reached on 24 August (see Fides 25/8/2014) which put an end to hostilities between former rebels of Ren ...
• 1 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “Migrants: for a better world”, pastoral care for human mobility national meeting Merida (Agenzia Fides) – Merida will host, from 16 to 19 September, Mexico’s 15th national meeting on Pastoral Care for Migrants with the theme “Migrants: for a better World”. Fides was told that the invitation t ...
• 1 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 30 July 2014, accepted the renunciation of office as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bombay, in India, presented by Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias, ...
• 1 September 2014
  ASIA/JAPAN – Resignation of the Archbishop of Osaka and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 20 August 2014, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Osaka (Japan) presented by Archbishop Leo Jun Ikenaga, S.J., i ...