News

• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Bishops of Cameroon : "We pray for the speedy and unconditional release of the kidnapped missionaries" Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon condemn the kidnapping of the two Italian Fidei Donum priests, Don Gianantonio Allegri and Don Giampaolo Marta, and a Canadian religious, Sister Gilberte Bussier of the C ...
• 5 May 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: an animation "that speaks to the heart of God's people, indicating the beauty of participating in the missionary service" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If the Pontifical Mission Societies do not persevere in preserving jealously their universal Catholic dimension, it is not their survival which is in danger, but the service to all the mis ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New hearing for Asia Bibi on May 27 Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal process for Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy has been scheduled for May 27. As reported to Fides from the pool of ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - A special prayer for the Pope's pilgrimage to the Holy Land Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Heavenly Father, you never tire of being compassionate and loving. The successor of St. Peter plans to visit the Holy Land sanctified by your Son’s birth, baptism, teaching, death and resurrect ...
• 3 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Immigrants march with a bishop to ask for "freedom of transit" Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - A convoy of more than 800 immigrants marched through the streets of the Mexican city of Saltillo to ask for "freedom of transit" to the local authorities. The immigrants, all from Central Ameri ...
• 3 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Fortnight for freedom": campaign to promote religious freedom Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Fortnight for freedom": is the title of the campaign that takes place in the United States from June 21, on the eve of the feast of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, until July 4, Indepen ...
• 2 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops denounce the poverty of 50 million Mexicans and the uselessness of reforms approved Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Reforms are necessary to adapt to the present in search of a better future. But we should not delude ourselves! If the mind and the heart are not reformed, and the conscience to create a re ...
• 2 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of the CNBB underway: Parish Church, the laity, the agrarian issue and the national situation Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of more than 300 Bishops from all over Brazil, from April 30 to May 9, the 52nd General Assembly of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) began at the Fath ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Enormous progress on integration, but we need to fight corruption", says Cardinal Napier Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "20 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa has made enormous progress in terms of integration among different racial and cultural components of the Country, but we must do more to f ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Even a Christian tries to candidate himself in the presidential election in June Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Shamih Mikhael Moussa, born in Btaiha in 1963, is the first Christian who is trying to run for President of the Arab Republic of Syria. The presidential elections, fatally destined to confirm i ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" interdiocesan philosophical Seminary in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 10, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Marie -Emmanuel Kone of the diocesan clergy of Dédougou as Rector o ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas after the attack in Abuja: perhaps foreign countries want to dismember Nigeria? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 19 people have died and 80 injured. This is the provisional toll regarding the bombing which took place yesterday, May 1st, at the station in Nyanya, in the capital of Nigeria, Abuja. The ...
• 2 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - More than half a million women die each year in developing Countries during pregnancy and childbirth tneestneestnenestndneatnjdneat Madrid (Agenzia Fides ) - "To be born a woman means more likely to live in poverty. Seven out of 10 people who suffer from hunger are women; two-thirds of illiterates are women all over the planet; over half a million wo ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal to the Government: protect female workers from violence and exploitation Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government must protect women workers from exploitation, violence and slavery, especially paying attention to how many are engaged in agricultural work, domestic work and or in other meni ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - A vigil to announce the new Bishop and pray for reconciliation Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn prayer vigil and an intense and shared adoration of the Eucharist, the Catholic Church in Nepal presented yesterday, May 1st, the new Bishop Paul Simick, former pastor of the Cat ...