News

• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Healing the ills of Africa to prevent tragedies such as what happened in Lampedusa " Bujumbura ( Agenzia Fides) - The fight against poverty and misery in Africa, which leads to tragedies such as what happened in Lampedusa (see Fides 04/10/2013), passes through good governance and proper exploitation of t ...
• 6 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church in the Pacific questions itself about the new evangelization Madang (Agenzia Fides) - "What does God ask us today? What does the Lord call us to do as a Church in the Pacific?" . This is the question asked during the General Assembly of the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea and ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Special" pilgrims in the parish of Yi Xing Fu Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Yi Xing Fu in the Diocese of Tian Jin, in mainland China, welcomed a group of "special" pilgrims on 27 October: we are talking about forty faithful who were protestants and have r ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal: Israeli demolitions sabotage peace Jerusalem ( Agenzia Fides) - "There is no justification for the demolition, but when the municipality and the Israeli government enact demolitions and displace people from their homes, these practices increase hatred and ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/CHAD - "A school, a life" thousands of children without education condemned to poverty N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In Chad, public education is free and compulsory , however, extreme poverty, poor school infrastructure, lack of teaching materials and unqualified teachers, transforms school education in a g ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The defeat of the M23: a historic victory for the Congolese army Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 has been defeated: in the course of the night fighters of the main rebel movement in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), abandoned the last two positions held on the bord ...
• 6 November 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - During their 96th meeting, the Bolivian Bishops will close the Year of Faith Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) will meet in Cochabamba from Thursday 7 to Tuesday, November 12 for its XCVI (96th) Assembly. The Archbishop of Cochabamba, His Exc. Mgr. Tito Solari ...
• 5 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Greek Catholic parish priest of Raqqa to Islamists: You are betraying the true Islam Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - Archimandrite Naaman Rawik, Greek Catholic priest of Raqqa and Tabqa - city in northern Syria for months in the hands of anti -Assad militias – has found refuge in Lebanon after Islamist militan ...
• 5 November 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The M23 surrenders but first bombards civilians, accuse local sources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On November 4, dozens of civilians were killed in the territory of Rutshuru in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) due to artillery bombardments of the M23, despite the fact that ...
• 5 November 2013
  EUROPE/HUNGARY – Confirmation of the national Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 13 April 2013 confirmed Fr. Benvin Sebastian Madassery, of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) a ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of national Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fide ) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 5, 2013 appointed Fr. Osvaldo Duarte Ramirez, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We want peace!": The Bishop of Apatzingan leads a march with thousands of faithful Apatzingán (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Mexican diocese of Apatzingá, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Patiño Velazquez has not been placed under close surveillance by the police and by federal forces because he is target ...
• 5 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church looks into the future: from the General Assembly a new pastoral plan Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands opens today, November 5, in Madang (Papua New Guinea). As reported to Fides by the communications Office of the Epis ...
• 5 November 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Parish priest brutally assaulted in Pretoria Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "I cannot believe that anyone is capable of committing something so cruel to a priest. It is really shocking", said Mgr. William Matthew Slattery, Archbishop of Pretoria, after visiting Fr. Cra ...
• 5 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children do not want to speak indigenous languages for fear of discrimination Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the number of children or young indigenous people who continue to speak their native language decreases due to the fear of being marginalized. According to a research carried out by th ...