News

• 3 December 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III: "True martyrs in Maalula" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We are determined to remain in this blessed land even at the cost of martyrdom and martyrdom of blood. This has already happened to some of our faithful, such as the three men from Maalula, Mi ...
• 3 December 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni opens the Year of Evangelization in Castries: "re-igniting enthusiasm for the proclamation of the Gospel" Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - "It is truly a great joy for me to celebrate this Eucharist Liturgy with you on the beautiful island nation of Saint Lucia. Today we not only celebrate the first day of Advent, but also t ...
• 3 December 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - After the nuclear agreement, it is urgent to look at human rights in Iran Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an increase in human rights violations and executions in Iran. Religious minorities continue to suffer persecution. After the agreement on the nuclear issue in Geneva, the issue of huma ...
• 3 December 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate to Christians: sign up to the electoral lists and participate as candidates Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans has issued an invitation to its faithful to renew or check that their names are on the the lists of voters and to get the electoral cards to guarante ...
• 3 December 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "We cannot live in fear, we must take the path of peace", says the Archbishop of Santa Cruz Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Cruz, His Exc. Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, has asked to "take the path of peace and transform weapons into instruments of labor, decent work to ensure a dignified life for ...
• 3 December 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The arrival of French and African troops is having positive effects" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the capital is calm as well as in Bangassou. One begins to feel the presence of the 200 French soldiers and about 500 Congolese military who arrived in the Country yesterday", s ...
• 3 December 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Inírida and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on December 3, 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Inírida (Colombia ), by His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Bayter Abud, M.X.Y., in a ...
• 3 December 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Guapi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on December 3, 2013, appointed Rev. Correa Carlos Alberto Martínez, of the clergy of Sonsón - Rionegro, Director of the St. Paul Missionary Priests Association, as Aposto ...
• 3 December 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Abouna.org awarded as best Arab Christian website Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic website www.abouna.org, directed by Father Rifat Bader – a Jordanian priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem - was voted best Arab Christian website in the competition organi ...
• 3 December 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY – Mgr. Melchior de Marion Brésillac, from India to Africa to carry out "nothing but the will of God" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On December 2, 1813, exactly two hundred years ago, Melchior de Marion Brésillac was born in Castelnaudary , in the south of France. A missionary and later a Bishop and first Apostolic Vicar of Co ...
• 2 December 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Mansa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on November 30, 2013, appointed Rev. Fr. Patrick Chisanga, O.F.M. Conv., former Minister Provincial of the Friars Minor Conventual in Zambia, as Bishop of the Diocese of Ma ...
• 2 December 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian missionaries denounced for "conversion of the tribals" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A Hindu group that works for the development of tribals in the state of Karnataka submitted a complaint to the police against Christian missionaries, accusing them of having converted over a t ...
• 2 December 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The draft constitution approved. The Sharia law recognized as a "source of law". Religious Parties banned Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the preamble already approved by consensus regarding the draft of the new Egyptian Constitution, "the principles of Sharia (Islamic law) which are the pre-eminent source of law" have been confi ...
• 2 December 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Caritas meeting in Rome on the humanitarian emergency in Central Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The dramatic humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic will be the focus of the meeting to be held on December 4 in Rome by Caritas Internationalis and several Caritas working in the Coun ...
• 2 December 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in the Antilles: "be prepared, vigilant and engaged in the mission of Christ" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his pastoral visit in the Antilles (see Fides 29/11/2013), Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, presided over the solemn Celeb ...