News - Agenzia Fides

EUROPE/SPAIN

Reflection on the Pontifical Missionary Union at the center of the annual meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain

AMERICA/BOLIVIA

Church calls for dialogue between government and doctors on strike and arrival of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine

ASIA/LEBANON

Parties divided before the proposal for a UN Conference on the Lebanese crisis launched by the Maronite Patriarch

ASIA/INDIA

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh approves the anti-religious conversion law

Continents

VATICAN

VATICAN

Recognition of the heroic virtues of three Italian missionaries who died of Ebola in Congo

AFRICA

NIGERIA

Schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria

ASIA

MALAYSIA

Call of churches to government against forced repatriation of Burmese immigrants

AMERICA

VENEZUELA

30 years of missions in Venezuela and abroad for Venezuelan missionaries

EUROPE

SPAIN

14,000 participants in 30 countries for a virtual solidarity race in favor of the right to education

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

Catholic Mission: Christmas dedicated to modern slavery and victims of human trafficking

FIDES NEWS

2021-02-25

AFRICA/NIGERIA - The destruction of the church of the Holy Family of Kikwari denied

2021-02-25

ASIA/THAILAND - Missionaries and small Catholic communities in the village of Papae, a bath of humanity and spirituality

2021-02-25

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Testimony of the Bishop of Uvira on the prevailing insecurity in particular due to the struggle for land grabbing

2021-02-24

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops warn of a split in the country

2021-02-24

AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the attack on the Italian ambassador: "The population has been suffering from terrorist attacks for years"

2021-02-24

ASIA/TURKEY - Arrest of a crook who tried to sell the Basilica of St. Anthony

2021-02-24

AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Right to water and food: the parties sign a public commitment

2021-02-24

ASIA/MALAYSIA - Reopening of churches in Sarawak state during Lent

2021-02-24

AMERICA - Continental Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "We cannot but announce what we have seen and heard"

News Analysis vai all'indice

Europe

For a "new economy": tax havens must be abolished

Africa

Cardinal Ambongo: in Congo amidst the crisis and risks of balkanization, the Church alongside the people

Africa

Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19

Asia

Evangelization in Asia in the midst of the pandemic

Africa

Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt

Asia

Environmental disasters and the Church's commitment: the path of safeguarding creation in Central Asia

Africa

Africa, Covid-19 has not stopped wars

CEP APPOINTMENTS

NORTHERN EUROPE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" Philosophical Seminary in the archdiocese of Brazzaville

AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Card. Emile Biayenda" Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Brazzaville

ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Regional Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Bhopal

Acts of the Holy See

ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Chattogram

ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of bishop of Dibrugarh

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Lisala

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Karachi

News
Dossier Special Issue Portugués

Evangelization

ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Zong Huaide died at the age of 100: he devoted himself to prayer and charitable works

AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Looking to history while thanking God, looking to the future confident in his power": one hundred years of the Ecclesiastical Province

Promotion and Development

AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19 and education: consequences of the pandemic in rural areas of the country

AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries' warning: young people risk losing their faith due to the pandemic

Area crisis

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Italian ambassador killed in kidnapping attempt: "He was very close to the missionaries"

AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic church in northern Nigeria burned and destroyed

Migrants

AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants: the many aspects of the mobility circuit in Central America

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Covid-19 pandemic: Burundian migrants blocked in South Kivu after border closure

Politics

ASIA/PALESTINE - Seven of 132 seats reserved for Christian candidates in next Palestinian parliament

AMERICA/ECUADOR - The elections show a country divided in two, the Bishops call for peace and fraternity

Missionaries Killed

AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The body of the missing priest has been found; victim of bandits or terrorists?

AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic priest brutally killed

Civil society

AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church warns of “fake news” on social media

ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic reaction against terrorism and religious hatred after the Sulawesi massacre

Local Churches

ASIA/IRAQ - Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi: "Iraq is not Iraq without Christians"

ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: "May the Lord end the pandemic with the power of his resurrection"

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