News

• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Full availability of Bishops to dialogue with the government on issues of national interest Managua ( Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua will express in writing to President Daniel Ortega its total willingness to dialogue with the government: this was stated by His Exc. Mgr. René Sócrates ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The situation has improved in Bozoum, but the situation remains precarious in the rest of the Country", says a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Safety conditions are improving in Bozoum, at least we managed to block the violence and theft that occurred in past days", says to Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary in Bo ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 46 missing children in the desert after the latest attacks in South Darfur have been found Kalma (Agenzia Fides) - After the attack of local paramilitary forces Rapid Support Forces in dozens of villages in the area south-east of Nyala, in South Darfur, approximately 46 children were found wandering in the des ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Some Catholic and Anglican Bishops: "fight against corruption to defeat Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - "I have just returned from Europe. Anywhere I went, Nigerians in Europe were asking me the same question: why is Boko Haram killing innocent children?" said Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Ar ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – In Aleppo, the Order of Malta inaugurates three new mobile clinics for refugees Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the beginning of the civil war in Syria, Malteser International - the international relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta – inaugurates three new mobile clinics in cam ...
• 12 March 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Catholic Guide for parishes with faithful of different languages and ethnic groups Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the United States (USCCB) has created a guide to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes. The pastoral aid, published in English and in Spanish, aims ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christian Pastor attacked by Buddhist extremists Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - In a social and political tense situation, in which sectors of civil society ask the government to stop the discrimination of ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, even the violence against religious mino ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Catholic bishops gather in Lebanon Raboueh (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, March 12th the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Syria will meet in Raboueh, Lebanon, at the seat of the Greek-Melkite Patriarchate. This is confirmed to Fides Agency by the Armenian ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram: over 500 Catholics killed and 20 churches and priests houses destroyed since 2009 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 Catholics killed and 20 churches and priests houses destroyed. This is the death toll and damage carried out against the Catholic community in the north-east of Nigeria by the Islami ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON-Maronite Church: to encourage organ donation Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Church is in favor of organ donation and called on the Lebanese medical staff to encourage the spread of this practice, calling at the same time to monitor abuses that may compromise ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - To improve road communications in view of the national pilgrimage for the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Blessed Anuarite Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo) have launched an appeal to the governor of the Eastern Province to continue the work of improving the line ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Bishops: "Korea, rise up in splendor!", the Pope is coming Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - " Korea, rise up in splendor! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you" (Is 60:1), with this quote of the prophet Isaiah, the Bishops of South Korea have welcomed with great joy, ...
• 11 March 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Criminal gangs train children to handle firearms Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Honduras is experiencing a wave of violence that last year registered an average of 19 deaths per day. These figures were released by the Observatory on Violence of the National Autonomous U ...
• 11 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Churches subject to violence and sacrilegious acts, even during Mass Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Several churches have been affected by acts of violence that have occurred in recent days in Venezuela: the news was given by Mgr. Victor Hugo Basabe, Undersecretary of the Episcopal Conference ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Inauguration of the pediatric wing of the hospital in Yirol Yirol (Agenzia Fides ) – Although the situation in the Country is unstable, on Saturday, March 8th the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm inaugurated a new pediatric ward of the hospital in Yirol which will accommodate abou ...