News

• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The street is my family": Christmas season: love for children, youth and marginalized people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and vio ...
• 2 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Grand Mufti of Jordan: the pronouncement of the "Fatwa" is reserved for authorized experts Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Legal opinions and religious edicts pronounced on the basis of the Sharia and Islamic jurisprudence are regulated and cannot be pronounced indiscriminately by unauthorized persons. This is what th ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Stigma and discrimination, Ebola also jeopardizes religious practices Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola will have a long impact in Sierra Leone. The total population is 63.48,350 people. To December 19 the total number of cases recorded were 8880 among suspected, probable and confirmed. Accor ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Anti-Christian attacks: Christian leaders urge the faithful to forgiveness Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "What would Christ have said if there were terror attacks during his time?" ask Christian leaders of Kenya in a joint message on the occasion of Christmas to the faithful still shaken by the att ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Hypothesis of a meeting Aoun-Geagea to overcome divisions among political Christian forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Rumors are circulating in Lebanon about an upcoming meeting between General Michel Aoun and former Falangist Samir Geagea, the leaders of the two main Christian political forces - the Free Patr ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Archbishop of Bangui pays a visit to former Seleka rebels again Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – On Christmas Eve His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, went to the reception camps of former Seleka guerrillas near the capital of the Central African Republic. The deleg ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 December 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Saw Yaw Han, Rector of the Major Seminary in Yangon as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Yangon (Myanmar), assigning him the ti ...
• 30 December 2014
  VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2014 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to information in our possession, during 2014, 26 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide, three more compared to 2013. For the sixth consecutive year, the place most affecte ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-terrorism Committee: no religious minority representatives Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities are targeted by terrorist groups, but there is not even a member belonging to minority religious communities (Christian or Hindu) in the Committee formed by the Prime Mini ...
• 29 December 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an ad ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Security measures strengthened for the Coptic Christmas celebrations Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A special plan to ensure security for the upcoming Christmas celebrations for Coptic Christians was developed in detail during a meeting of the heads of the police and security apparatus, convened ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The IDPs in Maiduguri celebrate Christmas among hope and fears of suicide bombs Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri has been under siege for quite some time now with IDPs fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. This is what was experienced in Maiduguri, capital city of Borno State, ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential election campaign, while the Catholic Church is preparing itself for the Pope's visit Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to reform the presidency and introduce a new constitution if he is re-elected for a third term in the presidential election to be held o ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Iranian aid convoys for Iraqi Christians ready to leave Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian aid convoys await the entry permit from the government in Baghdad to enter Iraqi territory and to be distributed among the Christian communities that have suffered ethnic-religious cleans ...
• 29 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "A sad and uncertain Christmas", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A sad Christmas is what was celebrated in Malawi, reports to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who for decades has been engaged in the African country. "What I want ...