News

• 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 ...
• 24 April 2014
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Rector of the "Holy Cross" interdiocesan Seminary in Auckland Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 24, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Brendan Peter Ward, of the clergy of the Diocese of Dunedin as Re ...
• 24 April 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Emmaus Spirituality Centre" interdiocesan preparatory Seminary in Lusaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Shoba Nyanbe, of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice ...
• 24 April 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Pilgrimage on foot for the 80th anniversary of evangelization in the highlands of Papua Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - A 15-day pilgrimage to thank God for the arrival of the Good News in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea: this is how the Archdiocese of Mount Hagen recalled the arrival of the first m ...
• 24 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rebels wanted to kill me", says the Bishop of Bossangoa kidnapped by the rebels, who murdered a priest in his diocese Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A great misfortune, that led me to the east area of my diocese": this is how His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop of Bossangoa (in the north of the Central African Republic) desc ...
• 24 April 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Director of Caritas Jerusalem: the people celebrate the reconciliation among Palestinian political forces Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - "The people here are all happy, and the Palestinians of Gaza are even happier than us". This is how the Catholic Palestinian priest Raed Abusahlia, General Director of Caritas Jerusalem describ ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND – One child out of 5 does not receive life-saving vaccinations Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, one child out of five does not receive life-saving vaccinations and the need for vaccines to be kept constantly in cold temperature is a serious barrier to the improvement of the cove ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Four young people at the service of the last will talk about their experience on the web Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The selection of 4 young volunteers who wish to live and talk about an experience at the service of the last, the forgotten in India, Kenya, Mozambique and the Philippines will begin on April 30. ...
• 16 April 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kasese and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 15, 2014, the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Kasese (Uganda ), by His Exc. Mgr. Egidio Nkaijanabwo, in accordance with can. 401 § 1 ...
• 16 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Abeokuta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 15, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Mgr. Peter Kayode Odetoyinbo, Parish priest and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Ibadan as Bishop of the Diocese of Abeokuta (Nigeria). ...
• 16 April 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The situation of the country does not depend only on a political issue", said Mgr. Parra Sandoval Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides ) - "For me, the situation of the country does not depend only on a political issue, but on other elements that have deep roots in society. Family, for example, is more and more disintegrate ...