News

• 20 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church on the eve of talks with the government: problems are not solved by ignoring them Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is ready to open dialogue with the Government of Nicaragua: the first meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21 (see Fides 09/05/2014; 14/05/2014). On Sunday aft ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/SINGAPORE – A ten-year plan for the Church: God's Word at the center and New Evangelization Singapore ( Agenzia Fides) - Starting afresh from the Gospel and engage in the New Evangelization: is the approach that will characterize the Church in Singapore in the near future. This was outlined by Archbishop Willia ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - 1,400 children to receive first communion at Pope-led mass at the Amman Stadium Amman (Agenzia Fides) – About 1400 boys and girls from all over Jordan will receive the sacrament of communion for the first time during the Mass that Pope Francis will celbrate on Saturday, May 24 at the Amman Interna ...
• 19 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Tumaco: "here the State has not existed for years, childhood is abandoned to its fate" Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - "In Tumaco children are taken away by the FARC and criminal gangs, they are simply taken away for their war": is the complaint by His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Giron Higuita, OCD, Bishop of Tumaco, who p ...
• 19 May 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – Missionary children evangelize their peers with the first Bible in Oromo language Kofale (Agenzia Fides) - The first "little missionaries" left from Kofale, Arsi region of Ethiopia, ready to evangelize their peers in Gode. With their notebooks, in which were represented the most salient scenes of the ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians, Ahmadis and a TV station: new victims of the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan. The last cases reported by Fides concern some Christians, Ahmadis, and a popular TV station - "Geo Tv". As Fides learns on 17 May a blas ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Christians flee from Aleppo, besieged city Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their luggage, closed their homes and fled to the coas ...
• 19 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Humanitarian agencies: interventions are urgently needed for the population Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Somali crisis has hit the Country for more than 20 years. Currently famine, war and disease exacerbate the situation. Humanitarian agencies that are having to cope with a further imminent ...
• 17 May 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Ceramic workshop in prison, with the help of the local Church Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The prison in the city of La Oroya in the central Andes of Peru, has opened a ceramic workshop equipped with the machinery required for all stages of the production process. The inauguration ce ...
• 17 May 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historic agreement in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, May 16, the session on the third point in the talks between the representatives of the Peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC ...
• 17 May 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - A detention camp in the Negev desert. Full of Christians Holot (Agenzia Fides) In the Negev desert there is a detention center with more than two thousand prisoners, mostly of Christian faith. We are talking about the center of Holot, where Eritreans and Sudanese who arrive in ...
• 16 May 2014
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe are on the rise: 241 cases in 2013 Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2013, the Observatory on intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe (see Fides 1/10/2010) recorded 241 cases of intolerance against Christians in law and politics, th ...
• 16 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate: priests must not make electoral propaganda Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - To all the Copt priests of Alexandria explicit provision was given not to directly support candidates for the coming elections, limiting the role of the Church to an awareness campaign on the impo ...
• 16 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - A center to transform cassava into flour and cope with food insecurity Torbeck (Agenzia Fides) - Food insecurity in Haiti is strongly linked to the importation of food. To cope with this phenomenon, which in the Caribbean Country affects more than 600 million people, a cassava processing ce ...
• 16 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians: for a prosperous future, the new government has to limit Hindu extremist groups New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the official outcome of the Indian elections marked the victory of the nationalist "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), its leader Narendra Modi, likely to become the next Prime Minister, ann ...