News

• 18 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Over 500 people have died and 800 wounded in the fighting in Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is relatively calm in Juba, there was no shooting during the night, although out of town sporadic fighting was reported. The circulation of traffic is slowly recovering", say to Fid ...
• 18 December 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Penalty for the imam who burned the Bible has been reduced but confirmed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An Egyptian appeals court has rejected Imam Ahmad Abdullah Mahmoud's appeal, the Salafi preacher imprisoned and sentenced for burning a Bible. This was announced by Egyptian sources consulted by F ...
• 18 December 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Protecting the rights of vulnerable children and help them return to school Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the most vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse and need more protection. A month after Typhoon Haiyan, Plan Internacional, one of the world's largest international NGO that de ...
• 18 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "There is a risk that other areas protest" says a source of Fides Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The lack of democratic attitudes towards the political opposition, especially since July this year, has given birth to an armed opposition that has attempted coup" says to Fides Agency a source of ...
• 18 December 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Minister to Armenians: Return to Turkey Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in a recent meeting with a well-known Armenian political representative, suggested the possibility of opening the doors of Turkey to the descendants ...
• 17 December 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Youth Group of the Diocese of Nanjing celebrate Advent as a sign of reconciliation Wu Xi (Agenzia Fides) – About sixty young people who are part of the "Don Bosco Youth Group" of the diocese of Nanjing, celebrated a solemn liturgy of reconciliation on the second Sunday of Advent to prepare themselves ...
• 17 December 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 19, 2013 appointed rev. Don Michele Autuoro of the Archdiocese of Naples as National Direct ...
• 17 December 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Nearness does not leave us indifferent", Message from the Bishops of Patagonia Patagonia (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to greet you with the greeting of the angels to the shepherds: do not fear, do not be afraid, I announce good tidings of great joy which shall be for all people!" This is how the Chri ...
• 17 December 2013
  ASIA/ISRAEL – Unifications banned for Palestinian families: a conference in Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of Saint Yves, an organization committed to the defense of human rights linked with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, will discus the sensitive issue of laws in Israel that hind ...
• 17 December 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - The social and economic pressure is so strong that it makes us forget the Child Jesus Puno (Agenzia Fides) - Today we Christians manage to disguise the birth of Jesus, forgetting the reality and the context in which he was born, because we do not want this Jesus to create awkwardness in our lives. This wa ...
• 17 December 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Immigrant minors: the number of young children has increased tenfold, mostly Syrians fleeing Rome (Agenzia Fides ) - 40,244 immigrants arrived in Italy via sea between January 1 and November 30, 2013, of whom 5,273 are women and 7,928 children, 1 out of 5. These are some data in the dossier "Immigrants minors ar ...
• 17 December 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Supporting initiatives in favor of development": the President of the Bishops' Conference meets newly elected President Bachelet Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and President of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, SDB, met newly elected President Michelle Bachelet (see Fides 16/1 ...
• 17 December 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - National Meeting for the 50th anniversary of Pacem in Terris Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Catholic Universities of the Philippines (ACUP) is organizing a national conference to be held at the University of the Immaculate Conception (Bajada Campus) in Davao City, fro ...
• 17 December 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The draft Constitution "explained" in the Cathedral of Minya Minya (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday evening, December 17, Anba Antonios Aziz Mina, Coptic Catholic Bishop of Giza, will hold a public meeting in the Coptic Catholic cathedral of Minya to illustrate the contents and guidel ...
• 16 December 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A statue of Christ in Mumbai destroyed: an indirect message by Hindu extremists? Mumbai ( Agenzia Fides) - The statue of a crucifix dating back to 1880 has been desecrated and destroyed in Vile Parle, a western suburb of Mumbai. As reported in a note sent to Fides by the NGO Catholic "Catholic Secula ...