News

• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Air strikes on rebels in Zamboanga: Bishops of Mindanao ask for a cease-fire Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - While government forces have launched air strikes on rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), holed up with more than 100 hostages in a district of Zamboang , a city on the islan ...
• 12 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Confusing situation in Bossangoa while the President substitutes the Chief of Staff Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to understand what is happening in Bossangoa because it is difficult to get accurate information from there. Here in Bozoum the situation is calm" says to Fides Agency Aurelio Gazz ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence in Zamboanga: Christians and Muslims in prayer with the displaced. A priest among the kidnapped Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - While the rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF ) have been holed up for three days in an area of Zamboanga, on Mindanao island, with about 200 hostages, including Fr. Mich ...
• 12 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros II resumes public catechesis: hatred must not enter our hearts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After a suspension of about 10 weeks, due to the clashes that rocked the Country following the deposition of Islamist President Morsi, the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II yesterday returned ...
• 12 September 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana: 60 Years lived with a missionary spirit San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc Mgr. José Dolores Grullon Estrella, Bishop of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, announced the 60th celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the diocese, created on Se ...
• 12 September 2013
  AFRICA - Dispensaries and charitable initiatives for the poor and disabled Bonoua (Agenzia Fides) - New apostolic and charitable initiatives by the Society founded by Don Orione confirm the charisma of the religious brothers in favor of the poor and needy. Present in 30 Countries around the wor ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Battle for Maalula, under sniper fire Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Soldiers of the regular army have entered Maalula, the Christian village which was attacked and seized by Islamist groups in recent days. According to local sources contacted by Fides Agency, l ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maalula, land of martyrs: death in odium fidei of the young Sarkis Damascus ( Agenzia Fides ) - For Syrian Christians, Maalula, the Christian village in the north of Damascus, attacked in recent days by armed Islamist groups, is already a "land of martyrs". Thanks to an eyewitness, a Ch ...
• 12 September 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New bombings in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan and South Sudan have been denounced Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese Air Force continues to bomb villages in the Nuba Mountains in spite of the declaration of cease-fire declared by the government in Khartoum. This was revealed by a spokesman of the ...
• 12 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Family beyond borders": the Bishops announce a document on emigrants El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the border dioceses of Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, have published a message addressed to Catholics and all people of good will, at the end of the second year's meeting, held on ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Non-violence, reconciliation and peace: Operazione Colomba begins for Syrian refugees Beirut ( Agenzia Fides ) - "Provide support to Syrian refugees in Lebanese camps; meet and support the Syrian reality working for a peace that will not and cannot be obtained with the use of weapons": these are the decla ...
• 11 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Campaign for the schooling of one million children Mogadishu ( Agenzia Fides) - Somalia, where only four out of ten children go to school, has one of the lowest rates of child schooling in the world. On the occasion of the recent International Day of Literacy, the Somali ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in Colombians", Mgr. Lozano during the Week of Peace Ocaña ( Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in the heart of the Colombians", with these words, the bishop of the diocese of Ocaña, Mgr. Jorge Enrique Lozano Zafra, launched the celebration of the Week for ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A serious incident of violence disturbs the celebration of the Week of Peace Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura (Colombia), Monsignor Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S., launched an appeal to respect human life, after the discovery of the dismembered body of a m ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans of India: the Pope has rekindled in us the spirit of peace and harmony New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "As Franciscans, we are called to unite our communities and all our institutions in order to offer our solidarity to the people of Syria and build peace in Syria, the Middle East and throughou ...