News

• 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 ...
• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In ten years 1455 people sentenced to death: Civil society demands to stop the executioner New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - From the Indian civil society a cry to "stop the executioner" in India: during the years 2001-2011 1,455 people were sentenced to death, which means "a man condemned to death every three days" ...
• 15 February 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A parish in the heart of the Amazon for the Redemptorist missionaries Acre (Agenzia Fides) - For a community of Redemptorist missionary priests the parish of São Jose was given, in Rodrigues Alves in the State of Acre, Brazil, the State to the west of the Northwest of Brazil, in the middl ...
• 15 February 2013
  ASIA/HONGKONG - "From Sacred Scripture to Jesus Christ": Pastoral Letter for Lent Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Didache, koinonia and diakonia, three characteristics that distinguish the original Christian community are the main themes of the Pastoral Letter for Lent by card. John Tong, Bishop of the Di ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan have been postponed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan that were to open on February 13 in Addis Ababa have been posponed. The meeting was to reach an agreement for the creation of a demilitarized zone on the bor ...
• 14 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus: Benedict XVI was close to these forgotten people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – What has just begun will be the third Lent of suffering for Christians living in Syria. A time marked by anxiety and hope. This is what the Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus writes ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Thousands of children kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated and exploited in armed conflicts Goma (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world thousands of children are kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated, recruited by armed groups. During the International Day against the use of child soldiers, which has just conclud ...