News

• 21 June 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Invitation of the Church: a vote for a referendum against abortion Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Uruguay called on the population to participate in the vote on Sunday, June 23 to decide whether or not to hold a referendum against the "unjust" law that decriminaliz ...
• 21 June 2013
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – A town has been granted to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees; "it is the sign of the regional integration process," says a missionary Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia has granted citizenship to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees living in the Country since the days of the civil war that ended in 2002. The ceremony for the conferral of citizenship took place ...
• 21 June 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Waiting for the Bishops’ statement regarding the demonstrations Uberaba (Agenzia Fides) - The population is waiting to hear today’s, 21 June, press conference in Brasilia, from the Presidency of the Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) for an "official statement" about what is ha ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new "Church of Repentance and Redemption" symbol of reconciliation between the Koreas Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The consecration of the new "Church of Repentance and Redemption" and the construction of a new "Centre of Reconciliation of the Korea People": is the initiative launched by the Korean Church as a ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A young Christian boy converted from Islam reported missing Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - A 16-year-old boy, who converted to Christianity from Islam, has been reported missing since May 25 in Peshawar, capital of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to local sources of Fid ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Major Seminary "St. John's Regional Theological Seminary " in Hyderabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 16 November 2012 appointed rev. Marianna Kolakani, of the diocesan clergy of Vijayawada as Recto ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayers for the bishops of Aleppo kidnapped two months ago Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of the Middle East unite in prayer to invoke the release of the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo - the Syrian Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and the Greek Orthodox Boulos ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Refugees are the invisible of our time", says a missionary Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The refugees are the invisible of our time," says Fr. Mauro Armanino, SMA missionary from Niamey, the capital of Niger, who shares with Fides some reflections on World Refugee Day which is celeb ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – Blasphemous poses: the Indian model apologizes to Christians Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian actress and model Kavitta Verma made an an official apology because in a film and a video she appeared in seductive poses with a rosary around her neck, causing the protest of Indian C ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako in Syria, the only solution is political Rome (Agenzia Fides) - To come out of the conflict affecting Syria, "the only solution to look for is political," while the prospect of supplying arms to the rebels - favored by some Western Countries - leads to a dead e ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Progress in justice for the case of a Christian girl raped Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The High Court in Lahore rejected the bail application for the Muslim man accused of having beaten and raped Fouzia Bibi, a 15-year-old Christian girl in the district of Kasur in Punjab. The youn ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A day of prayer for national reconciliation has been announced Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A day of prayer for national reconciliation on the occasion of the second anniversary of the independence of South Sudan was announced by His Exc Mgr. Paride Taban, Bishop Emeritus of Torit and Pre ...
• 20 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – The Bishop emeritus and missionary who helps children in a Country where more than 2 million children live in poverty Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop emeritus of Palencia, Mgr. Nicolas Antonio Castellanos Franco, O.S.A., yesterday met the mayor of the Spanish city of Valladolid to thank him for the help of the munic ...
• 20 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - For more than 50 years the Church has been helping displaced people, who are now more than 5 million Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Social Pastoral Caritas Colombiana re-launches the Holy Father’s invitation "not to be indifferent to the plight of refugees" and "encourages all to reach out to those who were forced to le ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: education, federalism, interfaith harmony are the challenges for the nation Pathein (Agenzia Fides) - In order to progress in freedom, fraternity and democracy, Myanmar has to face some major challenges: the situation of indigenous peoples; the peace in conflicts with ethnic minorities; the prot ...