News

• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Severe floods, Caritas sends volunteers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – With severe floods affecting the life of the people in the Pakistan provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Jammu and Kashmir, Caritas Pakistan has mobilised its volunteers to respond to the emergency. ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic priest says: Christians will return to the Plain of Ninive only when and if Mosul is freed Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – With the uncertain prospects in the region of north Iraq the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Moshe, and the faithful of his diocese have decided to try to return to Qaraqosh ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - “Young people without frontiers”: witnesses and proclaimers of the faith to the world of today Lima (Agenzia Fides) –Young missionaries (Youth without Frontiers) members of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru will gather in Lima 20 and 21 September for their 2nd National Meeting. Two the principal reasons ...
• 10 September 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA – Fighting poverty and undernourishment to escape underdevelopment Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Indicators of poverty and undernourishment in this country show clearly that unless Guatemalans win the battle against this scourge, the country will remain in the present state of und ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Catholics in southern India: urgent instruction Christian families Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges facing family life: a Catholic response”: this was the theme discussed recently in view of the Synod of Bishops for the Family due to be held in Rome in October. The Catholic ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Solidarity initiative to prevent child abuse and maltreatment San José (Agenzia Fides) –The National Children’s Hospital in Costa Rica (HNN) recently held the 5th edition of a sports event whic ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Christian MP in Iraq’s new government Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian MP is among the Ministers in a new government of Iraq approved yesterday by Parliament with a majority of 177 out of 289. The new minister is Chaldean Christian Faris Yusef Jajo, f ...
• 9 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO – majority of child workers in Mexico’s south east regions Mérida (Agenzia Fides) – In the Mexican state of Yucatan about 4, 680 children aged between 5 and 17 live in situations of extreme vulnerability. They work in the fields, on building sites, in manufacturing and comm ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The murdered nuns will be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says former regional Xavarian superior Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “All three of the murdered Italian nuns had serious health conditions , but all three, AFRICA/BURUNDI - “The murdered nuns asked to be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says f ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – New equipe for missionary animation in the land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Two intense days of prayer, reflection and listening to testimony, held 5 and 6 September, involved some forty participants in a “missionary animation” session convoked by Carmelite pri ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - JRS: optimistic about release of Jesuit priest taken hostage in June Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – “Moderate optimism” has been voiced by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) regarding the wellbeing and release of Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, 47 year old Jesuit kidnapped in the area of Herat last ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Postponed until October 16 next hearing for the Asia Bibi appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In a hearing this morning lasting only a few minutes, the High Court of Lahore, Judge Anwar Ul Haq adjourned the Asia Bibi appeal, postponing it 16 October, Fides was informed by the lawyers of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - “We have been blessed with good leadership: let’s vote to preserve this heredity” says Bishop of Gaborone Gaborone (Agenzia Fides)- “It is our duty, as citizens, exercise our right to choose leaders and government who will respect human dignity and work to improve the lives of everyone” Bishop Valentine Tsamma Seane, of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: “at each mass I speak about Ebola and how to avoid infection” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – “Ebola is such a virulent virus that it is not easily treated; only experts can run the test to identify the virus and determine the stage of the infection. Therefore the Catholic Church, t ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI -Three Xaverian Missionaries killed in Burundi: the mission is full of people anxious to express sympathy with the sisters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – Three Italian Xaverian sisters have been killed in Burundi, at the mission of Kamenge. The news was confirmed to Fides by Sister Giordana, Directress General of the Xaverian missionary sist ...