News

• 16 September 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA – Poverty and violence afflict 34% of Costa Rica’s children San José (Agenzia Fides) – One of the worse scourges afflicting minors in Costa Rica today is poverty because it hampers physical, emotional and educational development. Recent figures sent to Fides speak of 34% of ...
• 15 September 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Terrorism can never be combatted with terrorism”; local Catholic church denounces military violence Concepción (Agenzia Fides) – The Vicar General of the diocese of Concepción (Paraguay) Bishop Pablo Caceres, told local media that a recent clash between the armed forces and members of Ejército Popular de Paraguay ...
• 15 September 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY – In school books Christian communities portrayed as tools of foreign powers against the Ottoman empire Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – Some history books in use in Turkey today, when narrating the end of the Ottoman Empire and the Kemal revolution, still describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces at ...
• 15 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Floods in Kashmir: Jesuits appeal for help Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – “We are aware of devastating floods in Kashmir. Two primary necessities, financial aid to buy materials, medicines and humanitarian aid and activate a network of volunteers”. This was s ...
• 15 September 2014
  ASIA/JAPAN – Two members of a religious sect kidnapped in view of forced conversion A Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – Two members of the Church of Unification in Japan were abducted in view of forceful conversion to return to the “true religion”: the abduction was carried out by family members with the c ...
• 15 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – At least 2,500 Catholics killed in violence by Boko Haram, Bishop of Maiduguri reports Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Some 2,500 Catholics of the Nigerian diocese of Maiduguri have been violently killed in Boko Haram violence, local Catholic Bishop Mgr Oliver Dashe Doeme told THISDAY a local newspaper. The Bishop ...
• 15 September 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “A lively Church but the faith needs to be deepened” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference Roma (Agenzia Fides)- “We intend to work to deepen the Christian faith and also to expand the contribution which the Church can make towards the wellbeing of our country” says Bishop Nicolas Diomo, Bishop of Tshumbe ...
• 13 September 2014
  VATICAN - "Strong families are our best defense against poverty": meeting on the role of the family in the global economic crisis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Around 150 people from the Vatican, Caritas organisations, pontifical universities, religious congregations and Italian dioceses will gather in Rome on 18th September to discuss “The Fami ...
• 13 September 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Week for Peace becomes "Year of Peace" in Cali Cali (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan: "For peace, what can I do?" For the Week of Peace in Colombia, the Archdiocese of Cali has decided to create a standing committee of "ALIADOS POR LA PAZ", that will work for social ...
• 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 ...