News

• 
  23 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The cry of the Bishops: "In the name of God, do not kill young Venezuelans anymore" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "In the name of God, do not kill young Venezuelans. Their great sin is not to believe in a future that resembles the present". This is what Mgr. Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D., Bishop of Trujillo ...
• 
  23 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church mediates for the release of journalists kidnapped in the north of Santander Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "ELN rebels in a conflict area of northeastern Colombia informs that the two Dutch kidnapped are in good health and will be released with a statement", reads the social media account of the guer ...
• 
  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Attack failed in Beni: 13 assailants killed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 13 rebels killed, 13 captured and 6 injured, is the official toll of yesterday’s attack, 22 June, against the city of Beni in northern Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (se ...
• 
  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violent clashes in Bria, in the east of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately, the situation in Central Africa is deteriorating despite the peace agreements signed on June 19 in Rome", say Missionary sources to Agenzia Fides, from Bangui, the capital of the ...
• 23 June 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Appointment of the Bishop of St. George's in Grenada Vatican City (Agenzia) – Today the Holy Father appointed Rev. Clyde Martin Harvey, of the clergy of Port of Spain, Parish priest and Episcopal Vicar of the clergy, as Bishop of the diocese of St. George's in Grenada. ...
• 
  23 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "sadness and concern" for the issue of Iraqi Christians whom the US government wants to expel Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church closely follows, with sadness and concern, the developments in the judicial proceedings with which the United States of America is preparing to expel 114 Iraqis, largely Chal ...
• 
  23 June 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw: "A Ramadan of Dialogue and Peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We lived an interreligious peace campaign during Ramadan, where we planted olive trees in front of Christian churches, mosques, madrassas, Catholic schools and Islamic institutes. It was a signi ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To agree on a bilateral ceasefire, a first step in the dialogue between the Government and ELN Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On June 13, the government informed the delegation of the National Liberation Army (ELN), at the headquarters of the peace talks in Quito, Ecuador, on "the willingness to immediately begin studyi ...
• 22 June 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Good Shepherd" major Seminary in Coimbatore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Stanislas Savarimuthu, of the diocesan clergy of Pondicherry-Cudd ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch Ain Traz (Agenzia Fides) - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and of the East. 29 Greek-Melkite Catholic Bishops, gathered in the Electoral Synodal Assembly, elect ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Alcohol addiction alarm regarding street children: from glue to marijuana, to "chespi" Asunciòn (Agenzia Fides) - Every day, the National Center for Drug Addiction in Paraguay receives hundreds of people with drug problems. However, the most alarming phenomenon is the many street children who go there to ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The drama of illegal migrants: where are the African politicians? Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "I am sad to see that several ministers had been invited for this constructive exchange of views, but only one came. Others preferred to go to the opening of a casino", said Fr. Norbert Éric Ab ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AFRICA - Half a million African children learn to read and write thanks to the initiative of other African girls Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The African Children and Young Workers Movement (MAEJT) has allowed the literacy of over half a million boys and girls in Africa. MAEJT was born in 1994, when a group of illiterate girls in Côt ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Clashes in the city of Beni between the army and a coalition of rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Strong clashes occurred this morning, June 22, in Beni in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, the clas ...
• 
  22 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - OAS Assembly: the Holy See asks to allow the entry of food and medicine and to define the date of the elections Cancun (Agenzia Fides) – To allow food and medicine to enter, define the date of the elections and free political prisoners: these are the three priorities that Pope Francis and the Holy See have asked in the face of t ...