News

• 9 January 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ – They refuse to convert to Islam: 10 elderly Christians expelled from Mosul Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the self-jihadist Islamic Caliphate have expelled 10 elderly Chaldean Christians and Syrian Catholics from Mosul and temporarily housed in the second largest city in Iraq, after ...
• 9 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tuberculosis and Chagas disease out of control in the Chaco Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the Argentine province of Chaco, tuberculosis and Chagas disease are out of control. According to data from the Institute of Social, Economic Research and Citizen Policy (ISEPCi), about 5 ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal-designate Souraphiel: "I will work for the Church so that it obtains the observer status in the African Union" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – To work so that the Catholic Church obtains the observer status in the African Union. This is one of first commitments expressed by Cardinal-designate His Exc. Mgr. Berhaneyesus Demerew So ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New violence committed by Boko Haram: perhaps 2,000 dead, several churches burned Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Even several churches have been burned in the last series of attacks committed by Boko Haram in the city of Baga and in the surrounding villages, in the Nigerian Borno state, which according to so ...
• 9 January 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN – Day of Migrants - Bishops appeal to the government: listen to immigrants before expelling them Albacete (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Bishops have asked the government to listen to the voice of immigrants before expelling them, in order to ascertain whether or not they are people in need of asylum or victims of vi ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Salafist leader condemns the violence against Copts in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian parliamentary Younes Makhioun, president of the Salafi al-Nour Conservative Party, condemned the violence - murders and kidnappings - suffered in recent weeks in Libya by the Egyptian ...
• 8 January 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church joyfully welcomes the appointment of the first Burmese Cardinal in history Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Church colleagues proudly welcomed Archbishop Charles Maung Bo home on Monday, a day after his appointment by Pope Francis as Myanmar's first Roman Catholic cardinal. According to Bishop Felix L ...
• 8 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Assembly of Bishops: dialogue to end the crisis and the necessity to find agreed solutions Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of Pope Francis in favor of the family with concrete gestures and with the III Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the canonization of two Popes, the anniversary of the ...
• 8 January 2015
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Fatal accidents, permanent disabilities, illnesses for millions of children forced to work around the world Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Currently 168 million children work in the world. Among these 115 million between 5 and 17 years of age are engaged in jobs considered at high risk where they work as miners, farmers, constructio ...
• 8 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops to MPs: elect the new President as soon as possible Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Bishops, who met yesterday for their monthly meeting presided by Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai at the patriarchal seat of Bkerké, have once again urged the MPs to elect the new Pre ...
• 8 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Attack in Paris: "Not in the name of Allah" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learned with dismay of the attack in Paris. Pakistan is still in shock after the terrorist attack in Peshawar, which took place a month ago, causing the death of more than 140 people, mo ...
• 8 January 2015
  AFRICA - The Holy See expresses gratitude to local Churches in Africa fighting Ebola Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " The Holy See wishes to express its appreciation to the local Catholic Church in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone for its timely response to the Ebola crisis. In order to strengthen these efforts ...
• 8 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram is now a regional problem Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3,000 refugees fleeing the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram have been welcomed in Chad. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Chad, Kalzeubé Pahimi Deubet, according to whom even ...
• 8 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI – 5 years after the earthquake the Catholic Church is helping Haiti to recover Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 12 people from Haiti arrived in Rome yesterday, January 7, where they will attend the meeting to be held at the Vatican on Saturday, January 10 on the fifth anniversary of ...
• 7 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Coptic Christmas mass at Cairo Abbasiya Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi attended Christmas mass at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral , where he greeted Coptic Christians in a speech on Tuesday January 6. "The Egyptian P ...