News

• 10 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 9, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Theodore Mascarenhas, S.F.X., as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ranchi (India). The Bishop-elect was born on November 9, 1960, in Ca ...
• 10 July 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The worst outbreak of Ebola puts health workers at risk Kenema (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone, along with neighboring Guinea and Liberia, are going through the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded before, 481 deaths have been reported since July 2 (see Fides 05/06/2014). Seven ...
• 10 July 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 3 children die every day; 50 thousand at risk for malnutrition, diseases and ethnic conflicts Yuba (Agenzia Fides) - An average of three children die per day, and one in seven before the age of five, due to the severe humanitarian crisis in the Country. Three years after the independence of South Sudan, the popul ...
• 10 July 2014
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Catholic priest taken hostage by bandits has been released Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was taken hostage by bandits engaged in rustling in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. The incident occurred on July 8, when some armed thugs (called "Dahalo" which in M ...
• 10 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Third day of raids on Gaza. Caritas Jerusalem: security is not achieved by killing innocent children Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - According to local medical sources, the third day of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip began with 14 deaths including 7 women and 4 children. In one night between Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 ...
• 10 July 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The new President of the Episcopate reiterates that peace is the great challenge of the country Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, IMC, has been elected President of the Colombian Episcopal Conference (CEC). The new President met with representatives of the ...
• 10 July 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appeal of Caritas: "Help us bring home more than 2,400 people expelled from Brazzaville" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched an appeal to help the Congolese expelled from the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) who find themselves in precarious conditio ...
• 10 July 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai to Lebanese missionaries: the Arab world needs the Gospel Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab world "needs the Gospel and its teachings: those of love, brotherhood, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation". This is what the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, ...
• 9 July 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Makurdi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, C.M.F., Provincial Bursar and military Chaplain, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Makurdi (Nigeria). Fr. Wil ...
• 9 July 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the Bishop Coadjutor of Puerto Maldonado Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. David Martínez De Aguirre Guinea, O.P., advisor of the regional Dominican vicariate Santa Rosa de Lima, as coadjutor bishop of the apos ...
• 9 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The drama of tea pickers left to themselves Dharanipur (Agenzia Fides) - A team run by the Jesuits in North Bengal is providing food and health care to the workers of a tea plantation where two people were killed at the end of last year, presumably due to causes r ...
• 9 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - There is no end to poverty: it is estimated that there will be an increase of 100 million poor Indians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the period 2011-2012 out of a population of 1 billion and 200 thousand people, almost 30% of the inhabitants of India, namely 363 million, were living below the poverty line. There were 93 ...
• 9 July 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Assembly of Bishops begins: defeat pessimism and allow hope to grow Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "It is sad to see the gradual deterioration of the institutions and coexistence among all citizens. One has lost confidence. The image that appears is no longer that of a hug among brothers, and ...
• 9 July 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Torrential rains worsen the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - The torrential rains that have hit South Darfur in recent days have destroyed hundreds of homes, particularly in the refugee camps in Kalma, Otash, El Salam, and Dereig. Over 1,500 shelters have b ...
• 9 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Escalation in Gaza. Justice and Peace: "collective punishment" is inflicted on the Palestinian people Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The liability of new bloodshed in the Holy Land belongs to a large extent to political leadership that "pour gasoline on fire", fueling the conflict with words and irresponsible acts. And to u ...