News

• 28 February 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - Elections: Archbishop Lele’s appeal "avoid violence and ethnic discrimination" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Choose peace for our beloved Kenya, before, during and after the general election. We can only do that by transcending our ethnic affiliations, voting good leaders capable of serving people wit ...
• 28 February 2013
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hispanic-American Day: "America, Doors open to the mission" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "America, doors open to the mission" is the theme of the Hispanic American Day, which is celebrated on March 3 in Spain, the traditional event since 1959 invites all Iberian dioceses to keep alive ...
• 27 February 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - From the Nuba Mountains to Uganda to receive new limbs thanks to the Catholic Church Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is sponsoring 20 amputees, all war victims, who suffered amputations in the war in the Nuba Mountains (Sudan) to reach a hospital in Uganda where they can get new implants. Thes ...
• 27 February 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Shiite militant group threatens Sunnis and Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - What everyone fears is a return to sectarian violence that has bloodied the country for years: families of a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad in recent weeks have received warnings and threats from ...
• 27 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - From "Flashmob" to new evangelization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mission travels underground, on undergrounds: on Saturday 9th March, a group of young Catholics will get on the underground in Mexico City to bring the message of Christ to thousands of peop ...
• 27 February 2013
  AMERICA - It is urgent to eradicate the phenomenon of children employed in domestic work Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Ten major international organizations urge the ministers of labor throughout the world to protect children working in domestic service and to ratify the Convention of the International Labour ...
• 27 February 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - A Protestant Pastor expelled, another escaped an attack Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The American Protestant Pastor Jeremiah Ian Mattix, who for over ten pastoral served in the Protestant church in Diyarbakir, was expelled from the country because accused of carrying out "illeg ...
• 26 February 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Muslims in Papua: the new frontier of Islam in Oceania Gooroka (Agenzia Fides) - Papua New Guinea is the new frontier for the expansion of Islam in Oceania: as reported to Fides by the local Church, Islam arrived in Papua New Guinea about 35 years ago, when a mosque near Kim ...
• 26 February 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Music to promote tolerance, but Christians feel under fire Zanzibar City (Agenzia Fides) - Rediscovering music as an instrument of unity, dialogue, tolerance and harmony: Swahili music festival, "Sounds of Wisdom", just ended in Zanzibar, sent a message of brotherhood, inviting ...
• 26 February 2013
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Religions united to commemorate the genocide of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Christians, Buddhists, Cambodian Muslims gathered in past days in Choeung Ek, the "killing field" of Cambodia, to commemorate and pray for the thousands of innocent Cambodians executed there, ...
• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Year of Faith: a pastoral Letter denouncing violence Escuintla (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to "move from sin to life" with this invitation the Pastoral Letter of the Diocese of Escuintla begins, on the occasion of Lent in the Year of Faith 2013. In the text sent by the Ep ...
• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Community of Santiago greets the first missionary of St. Colombano in Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – He was a missionary who gave a valuable contribution to the whole Church of Santiago: Fr. Hugo Mc Gonagle, an Irish priest and missionary of St. Colombano, who died last February 18 at the ag ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mainland Catholic community walks intensely spiritual path marked by faith and evangelisation Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – An intensely spiritual path walked by the Chinese mainland Catholic community, was marked by spiritual direction and formation in the faith and evangelisation . According to He Bei di ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Appeal for electoral campaign without violence and with transparency San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – As the time approaches for the start of the electoral campaign for 2014 presidential elections, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, says the local Catholic Chu ...
• 25 February 2013
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - “Integrate Framework Agreement for Congo” say NGOs Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The appointment of a special high profile UN envoy with power to mediate at the domestic and regional level; the inclusion civil society and Kinshasa ‘s principal donors partners in the propo ...