News

• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Difficult times will come". After the assassination of Father Van der Lugt, Christians continue to pray and reflect on martyrdom Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - " In Aleppo, we have put at the center of our pastoral care the condition in which we find ourselves. We are experiencing every day what it means to go through times of suffering. Now also father ...
• 8 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The only institution that still functions is the Catholic Church" says the Archbishop of Douala on a visit in Bangui Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - "The State no longer exists. The only institution that is functioning is the Catholic Church. Actually, the displaced are living in Catholic parishes", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbisho ...
• 8 April 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Almost 40% of infant mortality rate is due to malaria Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Although the incidence of malaria has declined in Africa, the disease still kills a child every minute. 40% of infant mortality rate is registered in Zambia alone. Thanks to a campaign, called "P ...
• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "We respect the Supreme Court, we defend life with the right to conscientious objection" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church respects the decision of the Supreme Court and will continue to defend life and the family, thanks to the possibility of conscientious objection: is what the Bishops of the Philippines ...
• 8 April 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Growing concerns about insecurity, while today Maduro meets the opposition Carora (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Carora, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Armando Tineo Rivera, is concerned about the daily insecurity that is gaining ground in the country and for the many acts of violence that have occurred i ...
• 7 April 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Resignation of the Bishop of Maroua - Mokolo and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 5, 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Maroua - Mokolo, Cameroon, by His Exc. Mgr. Philippe Albert Joseph Stevens, of the S ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Long Xuyen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 5, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Joseph Trần Văn Toan, Director of the Pastoral Center as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Long Xuyen, Vietnam, assigning him the titular ...
• 7 April 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Presidential elections: the Bishops urge unity for peace, solidarity, justice and holiness San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - "The government that will be elected today will have to face a considerable task, therefore unity is required", said yesterday the Archbishop of San José, His Exc. Mgr. José Rafael Quirós Qu ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean League: debate on the statutes and internal organization has begun Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a secular international aggregation, will deal with the political and social problems that affect the Chaldean Christian communities around the world and will gather in particular "pr ...
• 7 April 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - No contact with the kidnappers, Boko Haram could probably be behind the kidnapping Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - "Two Fidei Donum Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Cameroon, in the latest kidnapping incident targeting Christian clergy in the African country " say ...
• 7 April 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CIMI delivers a document on the suffering of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon to the Pope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Bishop of the Prelature of Xingu (in the area of Para, Brazil), His Exc. Mgr. Erwin Kräutler, C.Pp.S., delivered a document t ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal battle after the death sentence of a Christian couple for blasphemous SMS Lahore ( Agenzia Fides) - New death sentences for blasphemy and new legal battles affect the Christian community in Pakistan: a Christian couple, he is disabled, she is a waitress, both illiterate, have been sentenced to ...
• 7 April 2014
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Missions and Catholic schools flooded and damaged, panic among the people Sidney (Agenzia Fides) - 19 people have died and 40 are missing due to the floods that hit the Solomon Islands and in particular the capital Honiara. One of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the archipelago of 550 ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Deputy Prime Minister assures: soon a regulation on the Foundations of minorities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc assured that the new regulations of Foundations linked to religious minorities in Turkey will be ready within the current month of April. This was revea ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Jesuit Killed in Homs Damascus (Agenzia Fides ) - The Dutch Jesuit Fr. Frans van der Lugt, a religious who lived in the troubled city of Homs, was killed this morning. This was confirmed in a statement by Fr. Alex Basili, Provincial of the Je ...