News

• 28 February 2014
  VATICAN - The blood of martyrs “scarlet thread” linking Latin America and the Middle East Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “A constant in Christian history is persecution and the cross which in this world and in these times touches so many of the sons and daughters of the Church. It is the giving of one’ ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – Zanzibar police says “no religious motives behind bomb blasts” Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “Exaggeration should be avoided ; there are neither religious nor political motives behind the violence” said chief of Zanzibar police, Hamdani Omar, in a press conference in Zanziba ...
• 28 February 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Flood stricken native peoples in Beni destitute and starving Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) –Bolivia is witnessing the worst floods in recent years with casualties and major damage in many parts of the country. According to information obtained by Fides, in Puerto Varador, 7 km from ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/CHINA – Eucharistic adoration and sobriety: message from Han Dan diocese for the new year Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – Eucharistic Adoration in community and individual form, to practice with devotion, and the adoption of a life stile of sobriety, above all in certain circumstances of ecclesial life, concentra ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - We Colombians cannot be indifferent to the suffering experienced by our brothers and sisters in Venezuela Cali (Agenzia Fides) – The secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Bishop José Daniel Falla Robles, auxiliary of Cali, has called on all Colombians to unite in prayer and solidarity with t ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - 50,000 Somali children at risk for malnutrition and inadequate sanitation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – In Somalia the famine of 2011 has ended, Mogadishu is rid of militia, in politics there has been marked progress. Never the less the United Nations Organisation and the Somali government ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY – Restitution of lands to Syrian Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery completed Mardin (Agenzia Fides) – The lands belonging to the ancient Monastery of Mor Gabriel, situated in the south-eastern Turkish province of Mardin, have at last been returned to the Syrian-Orthodox community to which the ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us work together for peace”: Bishop Taban urges Muslim community Juba (Agenzia Fides) – A call to the Muslim community in the country to work together with Christians for peace in South Sudan has been launched by Bishop Paride Taban, emeritus Bishop of Torit, also chairman of the So ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church at National Conference for Peace: find ways and means for dialogue to resolve the difficulties of Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, yesterday Wednesday 26 February, opened the National Conference for Peace, with the participation of representatives of all the social sectors, only ...
• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/PERU’ - “Ninos de plomo” Children of Lead: education programme for mineral contaminated minors Callao (Agenzia Fides) – They are all little inhabitants of a shanty town around Puerto Nuevo, in the district of Callao, Peru, who live situations at risk, day in day out, contaminated by lead, because of environment ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Tension with Israel over Holy Places, Archbishop Lahham: enough defiant acts Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The majority of the members of the Jordanian parliament voted in favour of a motion to expel the Israeli ambassador from the country and to recall the ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom to Isra ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Move army command to epicentre of Boko Haram violence” Nigerian Senate orders Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is still shocked after the killing of more than 40 students in a dormitory of the government run Buni-Yadi college in the north eastern state of Yobe, during the night of 25 February. The ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Work goes on at Bangui university despite chaos Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people at Bangui University, under the guidance of local Jesuit Fathers, continues to keep the doors of the college open despite extreme violence and political disorder which ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Leading politicians reassure new Archbishop: “government will respect the rights of Pakistan’s Churches” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) –Political leaders in Pakistan say the state will respect the rights, property and status of Pakistan’s Christian Churches, according to a report sent to Fides. The promise was made to the new ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALI – More than 3 million suffer food shortage, some 50,000 could starve to death before the end of 2014 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – In Mali some 136,000 children are severely undernourished , a pathology which registers high mortality rates, and another 360,000 are moderately undernourished According to latest reports iss ...