News

• 8 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: "people are making efforts to protect themselves against Ebola" Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "There are cases of Ebola infection in Freetown, Kambia and Port Loko but people are making efforts to protect themselves", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Edward Tamba Charles, Archbishop of Freet ...
• 8 July 2015
  ASIA/JAPAN - The Country is aging Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Japanese families with one or more children are only 11 million 400 thousand, 22.6% of the total population, the lowest percentage ever recorded in Japan which highlights the country's advanced s ...
• 8 July 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The world needs to change": Cardinal Turkson opens the World Meeting of Social Movements Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "The world needs to follow a process of change": said Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, during the inauguration of the World Meeting of Social ...
• 8 July 2015
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh to Muslims: "We are 'just one thing' in God" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "This year the Catholic Church celebrates the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the Second Vatican Council document 'Nostra Aetate', on inter-religious relations. The document reminds us ...
• 8 July 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – Surprising about face of the Supreme Court of Israel: the green light to the construction of the "separation Wall" in the Cremisan Valley Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Israel, with a pronouncement in many ways surprising, on Monday, July 7 gave the green light to the construction of the "separation Wall" between Israel and Palestine in t ...
• 8 July 2015
  ASIA/YEMEN - Alarm of the Red Cross: the country risks famine Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - Since the current military conflicts broke out in Yemen (see Fides 07/07/2015) 3,000 people have died and one million are displaced and at risk of famine. The situation is getting worse day by da ...
• 8 July 2015
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Migrants evicted welcomed in the Cathedral of Tangier Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - Several migrants evicted from the apartments they occupied in the district of Bujalef, were welcomed in the Cathedral of Tangier. According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, signed by His Exc. ...
• 8 July 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - More than 500 deaths in 150 terrorist attacks in the last three years Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 people were killed in 150 terrorist attacks in Kenya between 2012 and June 2015. This is what the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reports, according to which most of the victims we ...
• 8 July 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "We also want to be missionaries" says the indigenous representative to the Pope Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis, the Montubio people want to answer the call for a new evangelization, in order to become a Church that goes out. From our experience of working in the countryside, in contact with n ...
• 7 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government bans to translate holy Islamic terms Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved a summary prohibiting the English translation of Islamic terms. Sacred Arabic names and words like "allah", "masjid", "sala'at" or "rasool", are n ...
• 7 July 2015
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: defense of marriage, family and creation, reconciliation, justice and corruption Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "We, Bishops of the Catholic Church of Panama met in Plenary Session from June 29 to July 3, 2015, to discuss and reflect on the ecclesial and social realities of the country": this is how the fi ...
• 7 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Cardinal Filoni in Burgos: "Can we say that the people of God today are missionary people?" Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - "The celebration of the most beautiful and dreamed of conciliar Decree, and of all the Council as a whole, is to be able to note that the Decree has aged as a written document, but is still alive ...
• 7 July 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Padrón: "Corruption, repression, popular discontent characterize the present" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "National deterioration is remarkable. Next to a lack of raw materials, due to the disastrous economic policy, the present moment is characterized by huge corruption in government circles, the g ...
• 7 July 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The project of the Shabaab to liberate the north-east from non-Somalis continues" said the coadjutor Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The goal of Shabaab is to 'liberate' the north-east of Somalia, inhabited by Kenyans of Somali origin, from the non-Muslims and non-Somalis", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alessand ...
• 7 July 2015
  ASIA/YEMEN - The conflict becomes more and more serious, the civilian population is the most affected Aden (Agenzia Fides) - After the bombing that devastated the city of Aden and caused hundreds of injuries, other cases of civilian casualties and damage to civilian facilities have also been recorded on the densely popul ...