News

• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – The Bishop of Bossangoa: "The Muslim population of Bangui is held hostage by jihadists " Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim population of "Km 5" in Bangui is taken hostage by jihadist members that have infiltrated the capital of the Republic of Central Africa: this was reported to Fides Agency by His Exc. M ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - An exhibition on John Paul II, example of dialogue appreciated by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII; an exhibition dedicated to Pope Wojtyla: two events organized by the Catholic community in Pakistan was also at ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Aleppo again in the grip of war Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days attacks, incursions by rebels and operations of military retaliation in the Syrian city of Aleppo have intensified. An escalation which on Sunday 27 April devastated again even the ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Protecting the rights and education of poor rural people Mindanao (Agenzia Fides) - During the recent disasters that have occurred in the Philippines, the Camillian Task Force (CTF) have relied on the collaboration of the Missionary/Rural Associations of the Philippines (RMP), ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A reception center for the Congolese expelled from Brazzaville has been created in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo have created a reception center to assist its citizens who have been expelled from the neighboring Republic of Congo. The center, located in ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 28, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation by His Exc. Mgr. Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C., titular Bishop of Zucchabar, in accordance with canons 411 and 401 § 1 of the Code of ...
• 25 April 2014
  VATICAN - Fr. Szmydki, OMI, Secretary-General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April 3, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed Fr. Ryszard Szmydki, of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Malaria: Each year more than a million people die, mostly in Africa Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Today April 25, the World Day Against Malaria is celebrated, a disease that annually kills over one million people, 75% are African children. Every 30 seconds one of them dies. Mothers are also a ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - An interactive documentary explores the living hell in Bangladesh's clothing industry Savar (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh which caused the death of over 1100 local ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Annual Workshop of Caritas: Communicate to evangelize Cheongju (Agenzia Fides ) - "Caritas communication with the world" was the theme of the three-day Annual Workshop for the Staff Members of Caritas, sponsored by the CBCK Caritas Committee and Caritas Cheongju of the Dioc ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA - President of SECAM: "Africans have to rely greatly on their own human material resources" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The economic and political development in Africa is related to the integral development of the people living on the continent. Most Rev. Gabriel Mbilingi, Archbishop of Lubango (Angola) and Preside ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Aid does not reach those who need it", complains a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides ) - "Aid does not reach those who need it", said Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary who has been working in Bozoum (a town in the northern Central African Republic), who talks about how fun ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Turks also celebrate St. John XXIII Istanbul (Agenzia Fides ) - "Angelo Roncalli loved this country. He was apostolic Delegate in Turkey from 1935 to 1944 and his sentence 'I love the Turks' has been carved in the historical memory of the Turkish people". ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Nepal and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal (Nepal) by His Exc. Mgr. Anthony Francis Sharma, S.I., in accord ...
• 24 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young Christian killed because he refused to convert to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Easter mourning and pain for the Christian community in Lahore: Haroon, called Sunny, a young 22-year-old Christian was killed by a young Muslim because he refused to convert to Islam. The incide ...