News

• 5 May 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Adoption campaign for children with disabilities La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the adoption campaign promoted by the Servicio Departamental de Gestión Social (Sedeges) de la Gobernación focused on disabled children under 4 years of age or in need of any type of ...
• 5 May 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Church helps quake victims in remote areas Kathamndu (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains serious but international support is coming and people are finding a bit of comfort. A coordination committee of all the organizations and NGOs involved has been set up. ...
• 5 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II: the possibility to celebrate Easter together on the third Sunday in April is being studied Amsterdam (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the opportunity to unify the dates of the liturgical solemnities currently celebrated on different days from different Churches and communities, is "a historical problem" that in ...
• 5 May 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christians of the Holy Land are preparing for the canonization of Sister Mariam Bawardi and Sister Marie Alphonsine Ghattas Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, May 6 at 10 am at the Christian Media Center in Jerusalem, a press conference convened by the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land will present the liturgical and p ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Caritas Internationalis: solidarity from across the globe, while the dead and missing increase Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Earthquakes in Nepal and initiatives of solidarity from across the globe continue. In a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, Caritas Internationalis reports on the situation and on aid brought in ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/LAOS – The Christians convicted of illegal practice of medicine have appealed against the sentence Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The five Christian church leaders in Laos (Pastors Kaithong, Puphet, Muk, Hasadee and Tiang) sentenced to prison as illegal doctors for praying for healing for a Christian woman who later di ...
• 4 May 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Bishops encourage the President to continue direct contact with people most in need Barahona (Agenzia Fides) - Some Bishops of the Dominican Republic consider the unannounced visits that President Danilo Medina carries out every weekend very positive, because they have a significant impact on productive ...
• 4 May 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni ordains 14 deacons from Africa and Asia: "you must have a missionary heart" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "With your consecration to Christ and the Church, may you never fail the joy and excitement of this moment; always be ready, with the memory of this day, to overcome the difficulties you wi ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Shooting in Bujumbura while protesters make their way to the center of the capital Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In most of the districts of Bujumbura police is firing into the air to quell the demonstrations which have continued for days against the candidature of outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza, i ...
• 4 May 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Talks resume for peace, despite the incidents and the distrust of the Colombians Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian magazine "Semana" reported that, after an Army combat against a group of FARC, the authorities have arrested seven guerrillas in camouflage uniforms, aged between 10 and 17, carryin ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Population left to themselves, we are determined to restore peace" say Christian leaders Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The people of South Sudan are left to themselves, in many parts of the country there is virtual anarchy, with no effective government, denounce South Sudanese Christian leaders in a joint statement ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 10, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed rev. Georgy Kenny, of the clergy of Port Louis (Mauritius) as National ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch opens discussion on the draft Constitution for the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the parliamentary debate on the adoption of the Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I intends to open a free and serene debate on ...
• 4 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders and Christians together for religious harmony in Youhanabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To re-create harmony, security and confidence among the Christians of Youhanabad, the district of Lahore hit by the two recent attacks on Christian churches: is the aim of the meeting organized ...
• 2 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murders of activists and intellectuals: concern of civil society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A long trail of murders of activists and intellectuals are worrying civil society in Pakistan, creating unrest and protests. In past days Waheed-ur-Rehman, 42, an assistant professor at the D ...