News

• 3 October 2013
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The victims of the Armenian genocide might be canonized Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly a hundred years after the Armenian genocide - which falls in 2015 - the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church has put at the center of common reflection the proposal of canon ...
• 3 October 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamist militants block the construction of a Catholic church that has a valid permit Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Christian and Muslim religious leaders have expressed dismay after fierce protests were organized in past days by Islamic fundamentalist groups to block the construction of a Catholic church in ...
• 3 October 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Over 45 thousand faithful attend Cardinal Filoni’s Mass for the Jubilee of the Diocese of Suwon Suwon (Agenzia Fides) – The Eucharist celebration, which was held today at the stadium in Suwon, presided by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on a visit in South ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - El Ángel de la calle: support for indigenous children and young people with disabilities Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The program "El Ángel de la calle" broadcast by Cable Noticias, Colombian television channel which deals with the basic problems of the Colombians. According to local sources, among these the Ce ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church, the only witness of reality, must write the history in order to build a new society Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Reconciliation means creating a new society" was the main concept expressed by Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, Archbishop of Bogota, in his speech on the theme "The Church for reconciliation and p ...
• 3 October 2013
  VATICAN – Cardinal Filoni for the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Suwon: "Jesus sends forth and is present even today in this beloved Church of Suwon" Suwon (Agenzia Fides ) - "It does not belong to the Church’s nature to weep over a past that changes, but rather to be concerned with the task of placing Jesus Christ once again at the center of our mission, so that a ...
• 3 October 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In mission among the poor and marginalized in the "existential suburbs" of Suwon Suwon (Agenzia Fides) - There is a Missionary of the Oblate of Mary Immaculate who works tirelessly "in the real and existential suburbs of a rich city such as Suwon": we are talking about the Italian Fr. Vincenzo Bordo, ...
• 3 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 14 million poor people across the Country Cali (Agenzia Fides) – About 32.2% of the total population of the Country lives in conditions of extreme poverty. From the data collected from July 2012 to June 2013 by the National Administrative Department of Statist ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Over two thousand children are HIV-positive Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - In Guatemala there are over 2371 children and adolescents who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, only 800 of these receive adequate care. As there is no reliable data on the number of infect ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the indigenous population are a "living part" of the country and the Church Naupan (Agenzia Fides) - Almost protected by the hills of Metztepetl, Tonallan and Citlalan (the moon, the sun and the stars), in the Cathedral of Napuan dedicated to St. Mark (in Nahuatl language "El Tecuán", that is, ...
• 2 October 2013
  VATICAN – Cardinal Filoni to the Korean Bishops: "There is much more to do and there is need for intelligence and missionary bravery" Seoul (Agenzia Fides ) - "Take account neither of the prestige that the Church enjoys in your Country, nor of the statistics about which we may read. There is much more to do and there is need for intelligence and missio ...
• 2 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Church and civil society: it is urgent to release seven innocent Christians sentenced in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church and numerous organizations that defend human rights call for the release of seven Christians sentenced two days ago by a court of first instance in Orissa, for the alleged mu ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Millions of Americans struggle to live": Bishops urgent request to the government Washington (Agenzia Fides ) - The Bishops, Presidents of three Commissions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have urged Congress to urgently fulfill its fundamental role of government and to res ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA – Interreligious prayer for the victims of the attack at the Westgate Mall Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders from Kenya have unanimously condemned the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. As reported by CISA Agency, a special interreligious prayer service was held on Oct ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Do we still have a functioning state? " Asks Caritas Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Do we still have a functioning state?". Is the title of the statement sent to Fides Agency by Caritas Zambia in which concern about the deterioration of the state functions in the country are ex ...