News

• 13 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Children orphaned by ebola: One of the side effects of the virus Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - 20% of Liberian children under 2 years of age have lost their parents to the epidemic of Ebola which, since last March, has had a devastating impact in West Africa. Many remain completely alone ...
• 13 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The school year in the Islamic Caliphate: the teaching of Syriac and Christian names of schools have been abolished Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain which bore Christian names will have to be changed. Also the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education will be abolished. ...
• 13 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "There is no fighting in Maiduguri, but the army patrols the churches" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no fighting in Maiduguri, instead there is fighting in certain towns nearby" says to Fides Agency Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Abuja, ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The first church in China dedicated to Saint John Paul II has been consecrated Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The first church dedicated to St. John Paul II in the Chinese Catholic world was blessed and inaugurated on September 6 in Laiyi, in the Diocese of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His Exc. Mgr. Peter Che ...
• 12 September 2014
  AMERICA/CUBA - Pastoral Plan 2014-2020: Christian Communities called to a “missionary option” Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Cuba has published the Pastoral Plan for the Cuban Catholic Church for the period 2014-2020, entitled "Following Emmaus’ footsteps", of which a copy was sent to Fides ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscan leadership? Creative and aimed at the poor Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - To be a leader and a Franciscan is not a contradiction: the important thing is that leadership is lived in the spirit of service, is Christ-centered, creative, oriented towards the good of the ma ...
• 12 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Profession of vows at the end of the Jubilee Year for the 400th anniversary since the death of St Camillus Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Despite having solemnly celebrated the feast of St. Camillus on July 14, the camillian vice province of Burkina Faso wanted to conclude the celebration of the fourth centenary since the deat ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Episcopal Commission: pilgrims are messengers of peace between Palestinians and Israelis Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Pilgrimages to the Holy Land should be encouraged by the Episcopal Conferences around the world also because they represent a form of concrete support for the local Christian communities and b ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church: let's get ready and join the Pope in the Mass on the centenary of the Genocide thenesteesntjeenstjnejestjieest n Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church, presided over by Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX, which was held in the patriarchal seat of the convent of Our Lady of Bzommar, a few ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace agreement arrives in Congress, but "the road is still long" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The peace agreement between the government in Manila and Muslim rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which traces the new "Bangsamoro" administrative entity on the island of Mindan ...
• 12 September 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Civil society: "the press in Rwanda is being provocative with regards to the border lines" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Actions aimed at provocation and incitement" is how civil society in North Kivu describes the anticipations in the pro-government press in Rwanda regarding the experts conclusions on the demar ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Land is a source of livelihood for 14% of the indigenous people living in the Country Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam, the indigenous people represent 14% of the population and the Mong is the largest and poorest ethnic group. The Catholic NGO Manos Unidas, along with other local organizations, has lau ...
• 11 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Missionaries killed: "We do not believe in the police’s version, however, we will continue with our mission", says a nun Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not believe in the police’s version. The person arrested is an excuse to divert the investigation into the killing of our nuns", says to Fides Agency Sister Delia Guadagnini, former R ...
• 11 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian family flees to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To escape to save two Christian girls from being converted to Islam: this is the tragic solution adopted by Nadeem Maqbol (45 years old) and by his wife, Nabeela Nadeem, a Christian couple from ...
• 11 September 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Contribution of the Church for a monument to reconciliation, which inspires to seek peace San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Thirty-three boxes full of unused keys were handed over yesterday by the Archdiocese of San Salvador to the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) to build a monument to Reconciliation, intended to ...