News

• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rainy season is approaching, emergency aid for displaced people is urgently needed" say religious leaders Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here to get everybody to hear the cry that comes from deep in the heart of the Central African people, who are experiencing the most tragic moments of their history. We can no longer rema ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy and attacks against Hindus: the condemnation of Catholic Bishops Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation for an act of intolerance and request to the government to protect the places of worship of any religion: is what is expressed, in a statement sent to Fides, by the "Justice a ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Oblate missionaries: importance to guarantee the respect of human rights in Sri Lanka Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction for the release of the missionary Fr. Praveen Mahesan, OMI, and Ruki Fernando, a priest and an activist who had been stopped by the police on March 16; concern for the perpetuation o ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests and nuns in the most remote villages to help the faithful live Lent Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of priests and religious in villages or in the remotest basic ecclesial communities, especially in inaccessible areas, Community Eucharistic adoration in parishes, charitable ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "the Church is ready to dialogue with the President" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Newly-elected Cardinal José Leopoldo Brenes Solórzano, Archbishop of Managua, said that the Catholic Church is ready to dialogue with President Daniel Ortega only when he decides to sit down w ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai at the Mass for Caritas: the war of attrition in the Country must stop Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders and all those who wish to remain faithful to the Lebanese nation must put "an end to the attrition in the Country, giving confidence in the government in order to relaunch the ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We are very concerned about the growing tensions" says local Church sources to Fides Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the situation of the Country", say local Church sources of Burundi to Fides Agency, where political tension continues unabated since the police suppressed the demo ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Pankshin and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 18, 2014 the Holy Father erected the new Diocese of Pankshin, in Nigeria, with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Jos and the Diocese of Shendam, making it a suffragan of the ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Conclusion of the First Plenary Assembly of CEAST in Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 March, the first Plenary Assembly of 2014 of CEAST concluded, the Episcopal Conference of Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, which for the first time was held in the equatorial archipelago. T ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Elections 2014: the Church asks the newly-elected President for an "attitude of dialogue" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - While the Agencies spread the news of the election of the newly-elected President of El Salvador, candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), Salvador Sanchez Ceren ...
• 17 March 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians in a village are ordered to abandon their faith Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian faithful living in the Laotian village of Natahall in Phin district, in the province of Savannakhet (southern Laos) are struggling hard to defend the constitutionally guarantee ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on October 26, the President thanks the Church for the mediation Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After more than a month of tense dialogue, Cardinal Chibly Langlois, who has been invited to serve as a mediator in a national political crisis (see Fides 25/2/2014; 14/3/2014), announced ...
• 17 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The conflict is not about religion", said Ban Ki-moon during the meeting with religious leaders for peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to pass on an essential message: that the conflict in the Central African Republic is not about religion", said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the meeting held in New York with ...
• 17 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Teachers’ strike must be solved with students in the classroom", asks the Bishop of Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Marino, has publicly asked "the teachers’ strike to be solved with students in the classroom". The note sent to Fides Ag ...
• 17 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are deeply worried" about the recent massacre, say the Bishops of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The senseless massacre of innocent students in their schools in the north-eastern States of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, is deeply distressing" say the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria in a statement sent ...