News

• 4 June 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops awaiting the President's reply to the questions posed Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has not yet responded to the questions posed by the Catholic Church in the meeting held on 21 May (see Fides 22/05/2014): this was reported yesterday b ...
• 4 June 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - New attacks against medical facilities and teams who work in Ndélé Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled by the aggression that our teams are being subjected to", reads a statement of the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF), sent to Fides Agency, after ne ...
• 4 June 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Project "House built, hope fulfilled – Vita Ville" for many families, victims of the earthquake Turin (Agenzia Fides) - After nearly 5 years since the earthquake in Haiti, many families are still living in makeshift tents and, unfortunately, many live in the open, along roadsides. Thanks to the association Midian H ...
• 4 June 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Congolese expelled from Brazzaville: the two governments form a committee to verify human rights violations Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, the capital Kinshasa) and the Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville) have formed a joint commission to investigate human rights violations commit ...
• 4 June 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - 779 people have converted to Islam so far this year, mostly from Christianity Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - According to the information reported in the Turkish press and from the General Secretariat of Religious Affairs in Turkey, 779 people residing in the Country have converted to Islam since the be ...
• 3 June 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Jesuit kidnapped: Fr. Moretti asks for "prayer and silence" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us live this moment, after the kidnapping of a Jesuit priest, in profound, silent prayer and full of hope. It is a sad moment which we hope will soon evolve positively. We ask the media stric ...
• 3 June 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X announces the Conference of the Church of Antioch Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In a public letter addressed to all the members of his Church, the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Yohanna X al-Yazigi, announced a General ecclesial Conference which will be held at the Monaste ...
• 2 June 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the clergy of Equatorial Guinea: "A priest is not an official of the Church, but administrator of the mysteries of God": Mongomo (Agenzia Fides) - "The fruitfulness of your priestly ministry and the effectiveness of your pastoral action essentially depend above all, on your communion with Christ". This is what the Prefect of the Congregati ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – The jiahdists of ISIL in Raqqa confiscate the property of Christians Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni jiahdist formation acting on the scenario of the Syrian conflict, confiscated houses and land belonging to Christian fami ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - The new Apostolic Vicar walks "in the light of the Word of God" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the episcopal ordination of Mgr. Paul Simick, former pastor of the Cathedral of Darjeeling, appointed by the Pope as new Apostolic Vicar of Nepa ...
• 2 June 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in Otélé : "without the logic of holiness, the priestly ministry would simply be a social function" Otélé (Agenzia Fides) - After spending two days in Equatorial Guinea, Cardinal Fernando Filoni returned to Cameroon, where on June 1st, he concluded his visit meeting seminarians and formators of the pastoral and prepa ...
• 2 June 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Missionaries released: "A grace of God and a time of joy for the Church", said Cardinal Filoni who met them Yaounde (Agenzia Fides ) - "We thank God for this moment of joy he has given the Church of Cameroon", says Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, in a statement released ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/LAOS – A Christian arrested and mocked by the police because refuses to renounce his faith Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Five security officers in the village of Loynam, in Nong district in the province of Savannakhet, arrested a Christian man named Sort, they tied him to a pole and then they laughed and kept ...
• 2 June 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "The condemnation of Mariam Yehya Ibrahim is a direct persecution of Christians " say the Sudanese Christian Churches Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The death sentence of Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, a Christian woman accused of apostasy, is a "clear and direct persecution of Christians in Sudan". This was denounced by the Christian churches in Su ...
• 2 June 2014
  VATICAN - Death of Cardinal Lourdusamy, he was Secretary of Propaganda Fide and President of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal D. Simon Lourdusamy, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches passed away last night in Rome. He was born in Kalleri, Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore ...