News

• 19 February 2013
  AFRICA - Africa’s Catholic bishops confirm commitment to promoting human development Accra (Agenzia Fides)- "The Church cannot be indifferent or isolated in the face of present day socio-political and economic challenges facing Africa" says a report received by Fides regarding the presentation of Pastor ...
• 18 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Witnesses of faith, spiritual retreat, visiting confessors for the faithful of Wen Zhou Catholic diocese Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – Witnesses of faith, a spiritual retreat, visiting confessors are just some of many initiatives undertaken by the Catholic Wen Zhou diocese, in the Zhe Jiang province of mainland China, to he ...
• 18 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Thousands of villages in Marathwada affected by famine and drought Aurangabad (Agenzia Fides) – At least 12 thousand villages affected by prolonged drought in the district of Marathwada, in the central Indian state of Maharashtra, now face severe famine due to massive damage to crops ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Are Islamists fleeing Mali finding refuge in Darfur? Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Islamist militants, reportedly fleeing from Mali, may be finding refuge in the north of the west Sudan region of Darfur, since 2003 the scene of war between the Khartoum regime and several diff ...
• 18 February 2013
  ARICA/TANZANIA - Islamist extremist groups warn Christians: “The coming Easter will be one of disaster” Geita (Agenzia Fides) – “We thank our young men, trained in Somalia, for killing an infidel. Many more will die. We will burn homes and churches. We have not finished: at Easter, be prepared for disaster”; Signed � ...
• 18 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Children “evangelizers” in the Year of the Faith Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – During the present Year of the Faith, proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, little children are among the protagonists in evangelising activities of the local Catholic Church in Lahore. Learning wh ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Insituted, National Council of Christian Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Representatives of several different Christian denominations present in Egypt met this morning in St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral in the capital’s al-Abbasiy district, to sign the stat ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholic priest killed; "this is the second of my priests to die" says Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar Zanzibar (Agenzia Fides)- "We have no idea why Fr. Evarist was killed, we are waiting to hear the results of the police enquiry", Fides learned from Bishop Augustine Shao, Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar, where, yesterday Su ...
• 18 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Church never pays ransom, instead it offers prayers Aleppo (Fides News Agency) – The Catholic church in Syria, its various communities and bodies, does not pay ransom for its kidnapped faithful and never will. While calling on the international community to help put an ...
• 15 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Protagonists of a strategic development: young people in the Fraternity Campaign 2013 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We are 25% of Brazil's population, about 50 million people, immersed in a digital world, lacking public policies that see young people not only as a problem or a transition group, but as prota ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Contrasts between African countries and the UN on the neutral force in the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Contrasts and controversies prevent the establishment of a neutral international force responsible for chasing the "negative forces" (the guerrillas) in the Great Lakes Region and particularly ...
• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Peace through dialogue": politics accept the negotiations with the Taliban Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The political parties of Pakistan, close to the general elections due at the end of March, officially ask the government in power and the future government to "begin talks with the Pakistani T ...
• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Priests kidnapped: the Church seeks contact with kidnappers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Aleppo are seeking contacts with the kidnappers of the two priests Michel Kayyal (Armenian Catholic) and Maher Mahfouz (Greek Orthodox) kidnapped on February 9 by a group of armed r ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Elections should not divide us anymore," said Archbishop Okoth Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The entire leadership of the Catholic Church shall remain non-partisan in the forthcoming general elections because as a church we are interested in the unity of all Kenyans." Said Archbishop Z ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Violence against street children, orphans, abandoned increase Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scene that one sees walking the streets of Cairo is many homeless wandering victims of sexual violence and subjected to the use of drugs. They live in poverty and danger. Although there are no ...