News

• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: Christian candidates in no particular order Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – In view of the upcoming elections for the regional parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan - scheduled for Saturday, September 21 - Christian candidates participate with a plurality of competing lists . ...
• 18 September 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cases of child workers and indigenous people exploited in inhumane conditions have been denounced Ballivián (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Labour in the city of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina, have reported cases of child labor and aborigines without documentation, engaged in a factory in Ballivián General ...
• 18 September 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Ecumenical Te Deum for the 203 years of independence of Chile Santiago ( Agenzia Fides ) - Chile today celebrates 203 years of independence. The Chilean Episcopal Conference has launched a special website for this important anniversary, which will broadcast Ecumenical Te Deum via ...
• 18 September 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE – To love ones homeland inside prisons: Mgr. Chomali celebrates with inmates Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - "I know it is not easy to be here when you know we celebrate the Feast of the country outside. However, despite being in this situation, no one can force you to stop loving your homeland": a ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The rebels continue to harass the population despite the dissolution of Seleka Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "What can you do, these things happen!". In an interview with Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a missionary talks about what happened to him on September 16 when he went to negotiate with the re ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The U.S. Pentagon to General al-Sissi: Protect the Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel, in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, September 17 with General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, rebuked the strong man of the Egyptian army to make every effort to ...
• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Peace is the supreme good to rebuild Syria": the Syrian people welcomes the Pope's new appeal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To restore hope to the Syrian nation, to rebuild schools, infrastructure, hospitals, to allow the return of refugees, peace is the supreme good. For this reason we welcome with respect and ...
• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vigil for peace in Zamboanga: on September 21: government, Church, civil society will unite Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A massive event and a vigil for peace for Zamboanga and the southern Philippines will see, on September 21, in the capital Manila, the Philippine government, the Catholic Church and several civil ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church inherits the grand Luna Park theater, National Monument of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The grand "Luna Park" theater in Buenos Aires, able to accommodate up to 10 thousand seated spectators, where memorable pages have been written in the history of politics, culture and sport ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian schools strike to protest against the acts of vandalism in an institute Calcutta ( Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools in the state of West Bengal will be closed on September 19 to protest against the acts of vandalism that hit a Christian school near Calcutta. As reported to Fides by the loc ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Narendra Modi Premier candidate: for the Church "it is political suicide of the BJP " New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The main opposition party in India, the "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), a markedly nationalist formation that contends the government of the country and the Congress Party and was in power in ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR – A Congolese nun wins the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - "She is a true heroine", said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in announcing the Nansen Refugee Award to Sister Angélique Namaika, a Congolese nun who works in the nort-e ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: Patriarch Sako's appeal to Christian politicians Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) – With regards to the upcoming general elections for the Kurdistan region of Iraq - set for Saturday, September 21 - the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako appealed to t ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Seminary "Saint Jean-Marie Vianney" in Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 July 2013 appointed Rev. Achille Djihounouck, of the clergy of the Diocese of Ziguinchor as Re ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The deaths of poor children are 5 times higher in Latin America than in the rest of the world Panama (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the decline in the maternal mortality rate, there continues to be serious inequalities regarding access to health services for women and children because of poverty in Latin America. ...