News

• 13 May 2014
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Oceaneas Bishops assembly: "Reading the signs of times in Oceania" Wellington (Agenzia Fides) - Knowing how to read the signs of times in the Pacific; the relationship between faith and secularism, evangelization; but also the attention towards young people, pastoral planning and natura ...
• 13 May 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Kenya oasis of peace has become a terrorist playground. We need to act", said Cardinal Njue Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "In the past few weeks we have lost many Kenyans through terrorist attacks, road accidents, robberies, suicide and illicit brews and in some cases famine. The influx of guns and other dangerous ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS -Condemnation of the Church for the murder of children, violence does not stop in the country Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad to hear the news of children who are killed. Authors of these crimes are completely overwhelmed by evil", said Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, ...
• 12 May 2014
  EUROPE/GERMANY-MUNICH - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Monaco as Nat ...
• 12 May 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA N.GUINEA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 January 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People, confirmed Fr. Valentine Gryk, SVD as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/CANADA - Cameroonian priest killed in a firefight in Canada Saint Paul (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Paul Terrio, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul in Alberta (Canada) and the Catholic community of Saint Paul, mourn the violent death of Father Gilbert Dasna, of the Congregation of th ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The blasphemy law needs to be amended: demonstration in Punjab Faisalabad ( Agenzia Fides) - The government needs to urgently amend the blasphemy law, which has become "a deadly weapon" for human right defenders, journalists, moderate Muslims, members of religious minorities and oth ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Challenges before the elections", the Bishops call the national community to vote in a conscious way Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "With this text we launch an appeal to Brazilians so they themselves express their right to vote in a conscious way": this is what the Archbishop of Aparecida and President of the Conference o ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We are in an open-pit prison held hostage by violent people" denounce the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Republic is an open-pit prison, where freedom of movement and freedom of speech are conditioned" denounces a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Permanent Council of the Ce ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/GABON - Extreme poverty in a Country with one million and a half inhabitants Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - 30% of the Gabonese population lives below the poverty line. In an African country such data, compared to other countries of the continent, should not cause alarm, however, the number is very ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A Capuchin friar: "More schools in rural areas to ensure the right to education" Trichy (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church, very active in the field of education, "has a duty to launch and manage educational institutes not only in cities but also in rural areas, to serve the poor and the marginalize ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the presidential elections: a power vacuum would erase the role of Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, has relaunched the alarm about the destabilizing effects the power vacuum, caused by the failure to elect a president before May 25 ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We want concrete action to free kidnapped girls"; maybe some of them are in Central Africa Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja has called for “concrete action” to save the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. "We want concrete action to free the kidnapped girls", said Cardinal Jo ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Disabled children deprived of medical care and schooling New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are between 40 and 80 million disabled people, about 2.1% of the population. Among these, 60% are children and the most affected are children under 14 years of age. There are no ...
• 9 May 2014
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides ) - On May 21, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Gustavo Adrian Benitez, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missi ...