News

• 28 May 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in Nkolbisson-Yaoundé: "take to heart the ideal of the priest that the Church needs today and will need tomorrow" Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - "The seminar is a path that allows young people who are called to get closer to Jesus and to turn into him. This journey, although long, is essential for the future priest, so that he can person ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Economic support for Haitian mothers who live in extreme poverty Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The social program Ti Manman Cheri is an initiative which provides economic support to women living in extreme poverty with one or more children and is a real success for the local admi ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and civil authorities together for the safety of citizens Santa Rosa ( Agenzia Fides) - "It is always good to find other people who are at the service of the community, especially knowing that we work for the same purpose, for the same people. I am convinced that dialogue is th ...
• 28 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- Boko Haram: For Cardinal Onaiyekan "It is not enough to condemn violence alone, but it is also necessary to condemn intollerant positions" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Boko Haram problem has military, economic and political aspects, but also a religious dimension that cannot be ignored. This is the core of the message of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’a ...
• 28 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Hindu fundamentalists: request to ban the Muslim call to prayer in India Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - In a seemingly provocative act, tended to disturb the harmony between different religious communities in India, the Hindu group "Rashtriya Hindu Andolan", based in Mangalore, has requested tha ...
• 27 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case disappears from the list of hearings, the possibility of an appeal diminishes Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, will not take place today, 27th May, and no one knows if and when it will be scheduled again. Th ...
• 27 May 2014
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church: it is urgent to review the policy of detention concerning refugees on Manus Island Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Church asks the government to reconsider its policy of detention and resettlement of refugees on Manus Island, an island where there is the biggest detention center for refugees. T ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Isolated due to the rain and without the aid of the authorities, "but we are also Paraguayans", cries the Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation and abandonment in which state authorities have long since left the population of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguay, Paraguay, was strongly denounced by the Apostolic Vicar, ...
• 27 May 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - 100 years of evangelization in Bamenda: "We aim at the inculturation of faith and human promotion", says the Archbishop Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - "The Dehonians German fathers arrived in Cameroon in 1912 to evangelize this area of Cameroon" explains to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, in the west of ...
• 27 May 2014
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishop of Atakpamé mediator in the political dialogue Lome (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic Bishop has been appointed to mediate between the parties in Togo. We are talking about His Exc. Mgr. Nicodème Anani Barrigah_Bénissan, Bishop of Atakpamé, who will have to facilitate ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Chimbote: "to link all to criminality is just junk journalism" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Chimbote, His Exc. Mgr. Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno, was deeply shocked to learn that some media defined him belonging to the criminal organization that operates in the area of ...
• 27 May 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Tensions with China: the faithful pray for justice and peace Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,000 faithful Catholics gathered for a prayer vigil and Mass with the intention of praying intensely for justice and peace, while between China and Vietnam, tension remains high because ...
• 27 May 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – More support and availability for 15 million children, adults and elders with disabilities Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest World Report on Disability, carried out by the World Bank and WHO, in Ethiopia there are 15 million children, adults and elders with disabilities, 17.6 % of the popul ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Emergency for public hospitals in the Country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – There is emergency in the health care sector in the Dominican Republic, in spite of the tremendous efforts to provide equipment and improve facilities in hospitals. According to health c ...
• 26 May 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - 20 000 baptisms celebrated at Easter in the Catholic community in mainland China Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel" (1 Cor 9: 16), in the spirit of Paul's exhortation, the Catholic community in mainland China reaped the fruits of evangelization at Easter 2014. ...