News

• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: the existence of Lebanon at risk Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The delay or postponement of the election of a new President of the Republic "threatens the very existence of Lebanon", because "only a Maronite President with broad consensus and appropriate pers ...
• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - False news regarding the kidnapping of a priest and a nun in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church in Mosul, through its Archbishop, Amel Shimon Nona denies the news launched on the web on Sunday, July 6th announcing the kidnapping of a priest and a nun by unidentified "arme ...
• 7 July 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The army and the UN did not intervene to stop the massacre in Mutarule, HRW denounces Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre of thirty civilians on June 6 in the village of Mutarule, in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could have been avoided (see Fides 12/06/2014), if the UN Peacekeepers ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The President receives requests to stop the law on therapeutic abortion Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - In a public letter addressed to the President of the Republic of Peru, also the Archbishop of Trujillo, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, has expressed his strong opposition to the introdu ...
• 7 July 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - For the poor and against injustice: the testimony of Father Romano, who was kidnapped 29 years ago, is always present Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of Fr. Rudy Romano, a Redemptorist missionary priest (CSSR), who was abducted by suspected military on 11 July 1985, was cited by the Archbishop of Cebu His Exc. Mgr. Jose Palma, in h ...
• 7 July 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than two thousand women widowed largely by the Boko Haram insurgency assisted by the Diocese of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The widows suffer a lot once the husbands are gone, they become neglected, most of the family members do not come close to them, let alone to help them. We have an obligation to take care of the ...
• 7 July 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Appointment of the Bishop of Colón - Kuna Yala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 7, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Manuel Ochogavía Barahona, O.S.A., Prior, Chancellor of the diocese and parish priest in the diocese of Chitre, as Bishop of the Diocese of C ...
• 5 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Escape from terrorism and extremism: the exodus of religious minorities has started Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the spread of terrorism in Pakistan, insecurity, the very difficult living conditions, religious minorities have begun to abandon Pakistan. In the past year about 14 thousand Pakistani ...
• 5 July 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Assembly of Bishops begins: Analysis of social reality and new directives Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – To analyze the social, economic, religious and political life of the country, in addition to strengthening the bonds of communion among the Bishops: is the central objective of this XCVII Plena ...
• 5 July 2014
  EUROPE/POLAND - A school of missionary animation Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Missionary Animators, organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland, which began at the Missionary Formation Center in Warsaw on June 30, ends today, July 5. Accor ...
• 5 July 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Julian Leow Beng Kim, of the clergy of Kuala Lumpur, currently dean of studies and formator at the major seminary of Penang, as Archbishop of ...
• 5 July 2014
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. John Bonaventure Kwofie C.S.Sp., already provincial superior of the Congregation of West Africa, as Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi (Ghana). ...
• 5 July 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – Healthcare and mobile school services for nomad pastoralists Jijiga (Agenzia Fides) - The pastors of the Somali Region, in the south east of Etiopia live breeding cattle, camels, cattle and goats. In the arid and drought-prone region, they are forced to move from one place to anot ...
• 5 July 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL – Tension is always high in the detention camp in Holot Holot (Agenzia Fides) – Tension remains high in the detention center in Holot, in the Negev desert, where last week the malaise of prisoners gave rise to several initiatives of protest and mobilization, repressed by th ...
• 5 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Churches in Kirkuk assist Muslim refugees during Ramadan Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Kirkuk, the Churches are intensely engaged in assisting refugees - mainly Muslims – who have fled from Mosul and villages that are under the control of Sunni insurgents in the no ...