News
10 April 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria questions the role of the military after the massacre of 17 soldiers in a village in Delta State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - What role does the military play in the life of the country? This is the question being asked in Nigeria after the massacre carried out on March 14th of 17 soldiers, including 4 officers, by the y ...
9 April 2024
ASIA/LEBANON - Cardinal Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites calls for calm after the murder of a member of the Lebanese Forces
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Condemnation for the barbaric murder and a strong appeal for "calm and moderation in this delicate and tense political, security and social situation". This is what the Maronite patriarch, Cardin ...
9 April 2024
ASIA/CHINA - 470 baptisms in Shanghai, consecration of a new church in Wenling: an Easter full of fruits of faith
Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 470 baptisms were celebrated in the diocese of Shanghai during the Easter Vigil. In the other Catholic dioceses of China, a precious flourishing of the gift of faith was also recorde ...
9 April 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Among the "treasures of faith", the experience of Blessed Angelo Orsucci, missionary in Japan
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Among the "treasures of faith" presented by the traveling exhibition "Thesaurum fidei: Missionary martyrs and hidden Christians in Japan. Three hundred years of heroic fidelity to Christ", ...
9 April 2024
AFRICA/NIGER - Nine months after the coup: an analysis
by Mauro Armanino
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nine months have passed from the end of July last year to April this year, the period of pregnancy. The military coup was relatively unexpected and was particularly surprisi ...
9 April 2024
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Ibrahim Faltas: War also darkens the future of Christians in the Land of Jesus
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to see Hell - said the Syrian Bishop Jacques Mourad at the beginning of the last war in Gaza - today you have to go to the Holy Land, where the massacres of innocents have turned i ...
8 April 2024
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The President declares a national emergency on drug abuse; Caritas had raised the alarm some time ago
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is my solemn duty as President... to declare a national emergency on drug abuse". Thus the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio addressed the population to announce the creation of an ...
8 April 2024
ASIA/MALAYSIA - The feast at the end of Ramadan lived "in the authentic spirit of Easter, to celebrate a dawn of peace and fraternity"
Miri (Agenzia Fides) - In Miri, a Malaysian city in the province of Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo), less than 100 meters away are the "Masjid An Naim" mosque and the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. There is mutual h ...
8 April 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - 'Money, money, money'. The reasons for conflicts and the arms race according to missionary Archbishop, Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi
by Victor Gaetan*
Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, age 65, holds a startling number of key positions, yet he’s calm as a church usher.
President of Caritas Internationalis, Secretary General of the Federation ...
6 April 2024
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Goa and Damão
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes of the clergy of Goa and Damão, India, until now director of the Saint Pius X Pastoral Institute, as auxiliary bish ...
6 April 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Church calls for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples on the island of Boracay
Boracay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops and movements call on the State Human Rights Commission of the Philippines to protect the indigenous Ati communities on the island of Boracay, a tourist paradise in the Phil ...
6 April 2024
ASIA/ HOLY LAND - Father Neuhaus: amid Gaza rubble, Christians proclaim that Christ is risen
by Gianni Valente
Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) - In Palestine and Israel, in 6 months of war, «it is shameful that no one has been able to call the warmongers to account». Jesuits write this words in the statement ...
5 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Children's mission organizations from European countries come together in Bucharest: The focus is on cooperation
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people will take part in the next meeting of representatives of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Europe, which will take place from next Sunday to Thursday, April ...
5 April 2024
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Rohingya under pressure: imprisoned, without citizenship, but forced to join the Burmese army
Sittwe (Agenzia Fides) - In order to replenish its ranks, decimated by combat losses, the Myanmar army is resorting to the forced recruitment of young men from the Rohingya people and sending them to the front in the fig ...
5 April 2024
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishop of Moramanga: "The population is materially poor but spiritually rich"
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of Moramanga is a relatively new diocese and the challenges that the Church faces here concern, above all, the creation of new structures and the training of pastoral workers, ...
Total articles: 43636 - Page 24 of 24