News

• 27 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Pax Christi International: Europe must not close its doors to Syrian refugees Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Pax Christi International urgently appeals to the government in Damascus and forces involved in the Syrian conflict so that the Country's borders are opened in order to allow humanitarian relie ...
• 27 November 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Joy and music for the great feast of the mission: CAM 4 has begun Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - With much joy and missionary spirit, the Fourth American Missionary Congress (CAM 4) and the Ninth Latin American Missionary Congress (COMLA 9) began last night November 26th. The Mass of inau ...
• 27 November 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Sister Nyirumbe, a Ugandan educator who empowers women and a girls who survived brutality at the hands of the LRA, will be recognized with an Honorary doctorate Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Sister Nyirumbe is helping women and girls weave a new beginning through education. Her vision and advocacy for this vulnerable population resonate deeply with the legacy of St Vincent de Paul, ...
• 27 November 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Controversy between a priest and the Korean President: the Archbishop of Seoul invites priests not to get involved in politics Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The laity, not the clergy, have the responsibility of administering and participating directly in politics: this was confirmed in a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Archbishop of Seoul, His E ...
• 26 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, missionary doctor, killed in Rhodesia Modena (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of the Archbishop of Modena - Nonantola, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Lanfranchi, on November 23 in Modena, in the church of St. Dominic the diocesan phase of the beatification process o ...
• 26 November 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A new church in Dinajpur, a sign of rebirth at the conclusion of the Year of Faith Kodbir (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith ended with an event in Bangladesh defined by all as "highly symbolic": the consecration of a new church and the simultaneous creation of a new parish in Kodbir (the 15th in the ...
• 26 November 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "May this continent allow faith to grow in other continents", said Cardinal Filoni, Special Envoy of the Pope at CAM 4 Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides ) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Special Envoy of the Holy Father, arrived in Maracaibo (Venezuela), at the IV American Missionary Cong ...
• 26 November 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - " Despite the uncertainty of today I am confident that peace can explode" said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Popular pressure for social pacification is certainly a good thing, and I believe that in any moment peace can explode in Libya" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli ...
• 26 November 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Menamparampil: " Persecuted? Beware of false martyrdom and proselytism" Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - "If we are persecuted because of our carelessness , institutional arrogance, lack of cultural integration, we should not consider ourselves martyrs ": is what is stated in a note sent to Fides ...
• 26 November 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Concrete proposals to preserve the demographic balance in the Christian -majority areas Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The first conference sponsored by the "Friends of Bartala" organization to denounce the tampering of the demographic balance in areas where historically indigenous Christian communities in Iraq we ...
• 26 November 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Precarious situation in Central Africa; Paris announces the sending of other 800 soldiers Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, due to the spreading of rumors on the infiltration in the city of "anti Balaka", self-defense groups created to defend themselves agai ...
• 26 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The poor wait outside hospitals because they cannot pay their visits and treatments and very often die Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The consequences of the earthquake and Hayan typhoon that hit the Philippine population continues to get worse also because of the poor condition of the various hospitals, including the Hospital of ...
• 26 November 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC "authorize" the opening of churches in the south of the country, but only on Sundays Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - In the Colombian department of Putumayo in the south of the country, FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) allow churches to open only on Saturdays and Sundays and priests therefore can ce ...
• 25 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of the Diocese of Su Zhou end the Year of Faith with a pilgrimage Su Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – A three-day pilgrimage to the Cathedral and the Shrine of Our Lady, in the Archdiocese of Ji Nan: this is how the Diocesan Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Virgin of the ...
• 25 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The village of Deir Atieh invaded by Islamists: Christians identified and detained Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Militants of Islamist factions have invaded the town of Deir Atieh, north of Damascus, spreading terror, death and destruction. As Fides sources in the Greek Orthodox Church report, the attack ...