News

• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Converts to Christianity still risk capital charges Teheran (Agenzia Fides) – Two Iranian Christians, members of the protestant Church of Iran community have been accused of “spreading corruption in the world”. Two other Christians, Iranian Pastor Matthias Haghnej ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Silsilah Dialogue Centre advocates harmony in the Year of the Laity Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – Christians and Muslims must work together to promote a spirit of harmony especially in the difficult world of today faced with a new explosion of sectarian violence and radical Islamism in ...
• 6 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians, but also Muslims, flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians but also Muslims flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Several churches are in ruins and tens of thousands, mainly Christians, are running to escape ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – New Rector of St. Mary inter-diocesan Major Seminary in the diocese of Nakuru, appointed. Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014 appointed Rector of St Mary inter-diocesan Major Seminary in Molo, in the dioces ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – New Rector for St. Matthias Mulumba Major seminary in the diocese of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014 appointed Rector of St. Matthias Mulumba national major seminary, in the diocese ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian women abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Recently light was shed on yet another case of women abducted from their families, forced to convert to Islam and to marry Muslim men: Fides was informed of the case by lawyer Sardar Mushtaq G ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Head of Caritas Lebanon: we welcome Iraqi Christian refugees, but they are determined to leave the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Already some 350 families of Christians who fled Mosul and the villages in the Plain of Ninive have found shelter in Lebanon, “but the numbers continue to rise every day”. Fides learned fro ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Teachers Day: Mother Teresa, teacher ‘par excellence’ ASIA/INDIA – Teachers Day: Mother Teresa, teacher ‘par excellence’ New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – “As India marks today, 5 September, Teachers Day, by happy coincidence the Church celebrates the feast day of Bles ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – Appeal for embargo on arms entering South Sudan, grave humanitarian crisis impending Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “As long as arms are imported into South Sudan, they will most probably be used to commit more atrocities” say the signees of an appeal for an embargo on arms sales to South Sudan, a country d ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholic Synod: in agenda Genocide centenary, martyrs’ beatification, situation of Middle East Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – The annual meeting of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church has begun at the patriarchal See at the Convent of Our Lady of Bzommar, just outside Beirut. The synodal assembly chaired by Patr ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Enough violence in northern Kenya!” cry Catholic Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation of contining insecurity and violence is unacceptable. How many lives must still be lost before we Kenyans say enough is enough?” . This was said by the Kenyan Catholic Bishop ...
• 5 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Elections: Bishops concerned about serious signs of corruption and distrust in politics Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Twenty one million Peruvians, including two million young people voting for the first time, will soon take part in an electoral consultation. On October 5 they will be called to elect thirteen th ...
• 4 September 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Catholic Bishops of Bolivia and Peru take communications course “For a culture of encounter” Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Today is the final day of a Seminar on Communications for Bishops of the Bolivarian region which brought together 23 Bishops of Bolivia and 13 Bishops from Peru, for reflection and discussi ...
• 4 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – Rector for St. Thomas Aquinas major seminary in Nairobi appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014, appointed as Rector of St. Thomas Aquinas major seminary in the Archdiocese of N ...
• 4 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch: to free Ninive province we need a peacekeeping operation and Christians enrolled in local police force ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch: to free Ninive province we need a peacekeeping operation and Christians enrolled in local police force Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – One month after the attack by Jihadists of Isl ...