News

• 28 January 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Assault on Tripoli: the shadow of the Islamic State on the shores of the Mediterranean Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 people died in the attack on Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, committed by two (or maybe three, according to some sources) gunmen, yesterday, January 27th. After setting off a car bomb i ...
• 28 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian government allocates land for the construction of new churches in the capital Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A plot of 30 hectares has been made available to the Coptic Patriarchate to build structures and offices connected to the Cathedral of San Marco in Cairo, and three other smaller plots of land to ...
• 28 January 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: for peace and religious harmony, the government "is on the right path" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The new government of President Mahinda Sirisena has undertaken the important task of ensuring the rule of law in the country and promote peace and harmony among different communities": this is ...
• 28 January 2015
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - In view of the elections there is growing concern for children abducted for macabre rituals Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming presidential elections to be held in the Ivory Coast in October, there is a growing concern for the kidnapping and murder of children for ritual purposes. According to in ...
• 27 January 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Chimbote asks protection for judges: "We are living in fear" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - After the publication of the news regarding threats aimed at judges Susana Quispe and Sara Valdivieso, and three judicial officers of the Superior Court of the province of Santa (in the Ancash ...
• 27 January 2015
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Bishops denounce: "Ivorian society is sick at a spiritual and moral level" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The unbridled race to easy money and power threatens social cohesion and the stability of the Country", say the Bishops of the Ivory Coast in the message published at the end of their Plenary A ...
• 27 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Catholic Diocese in Minya promotes religious reconciliation in the village of Delga with concrete projects Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Delga, in the Egyptian governorate of Minya, in the recent past has been the focus of clashes between family clans and violence carried out by fundamentalist Islamist groups, who ha ...
• 27 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Anti-Christian violence: the Bishops reaffirm their friendship with the Muslim community Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to renew our friendship and brotherhood to the entire Muslim community in our Country", write the Bishops of Niger in a message to the Muslim community, sent to Agenzia Fides, after the ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY – Other three people accused of the massacre of Christians in Malatya have been released from prison Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - The first Criminal Court in Malatya has ordered the release of two former soldiers and a university researcher held for almost four years on suspicion of being involved in the murder of three Ch ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: No to violence in Mindanao, support for the peace process Dagupan City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of the Philippines expressed its peremptory "no" to all forms of violence against human life, and publicly declared support for the peace process and the ongoing neg ...
• 27 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Child labor: 2 million and a half working children Ciudad Victoria (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Tamaulipas there are at least 71 000 boys, girls and young workers, who are to be added to the national data of the National Institute of Geography and Statistics ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Church set on fire in the state of Telangana New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The new state of Telangana, officially created in the Indian Federation a few months ago, received the "baptism" of violence by Hindu extremists: the Protestant church of the village of Tadur ...
• 27 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Rivera: "To change our society personal conversion is needed" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the federal elections that will be held in Mexico on June 7 has started. The people will have to vote to elect 500 Members of the "Congreso de la Union". "The candidates are ...
• 26 January 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni celebrates the 50th anniversary of the diocese of Xuan Loc, "may families and parishes become God’s families" Xuan Loc (Agenzia Fides) - "Today I have the joy of celebrating with you the 50th anniversary of the creation of the diocese of Xuan Loc, which took place on October 14, 1965, by decision of the Blessed Pope Paul VI, who ...
• 26 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO – The Bishops of Central America discuss the issue regarding assistance to migrants Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua will meet from January 28 to 30 in Tapachula (Mexico), to "discuss the always painful reality of many thousands of migrants ...