News

• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Threats to marriage and family", warn the Bishops of the Province of Ibadan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of Faith, which began in October 2012, has witnessed a new zeal and energy and zeal in the laity’s outreach in evangelization" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan, ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The rights of the Guaranì at the center of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples Dourados (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Amnesty International on August 7, visited the Kaiowá Guaranì indigenous communities in the region of Dourados (MS). During the meeting, the Guarani Kaiowá leaders met the Se ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Minister Bonino on the kidnapping of Fr. Dall'Oglio "We grope in the dark" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - ''There is no news on the group that kidnapped Fr. Dall’Oglio. We are still groping in the dark''. This is how Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino expressed herself, on the morning of August 9, ...
• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary found dead in Haiti, an example to propose also for sanctification Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian episcopate will begin in 2015 the practice to ask the Vatican for the beatification of the missionary and pediatrician Zilda Arns, founder and coordinator of the Pastoral of the C ...
• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 4 villages of ethnic Q'eqchi are isolated due to severe floods, the Church intervenes San Pedro Carchá (Agenzia Fides) - The torrential rains that hit the town of Santa Catalina La Tinta, which is part of the Department of Alta Verapaz, have caused serious damage to the population of the mountainous area ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - The trial for the explosions of 2012 has begun; several victims still homeless Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - On August 6, the trial of a dozen soldiers accused of causing a series of explosions in the barracks of Mpila situated in a suburban area of the capital of the Republic of Congo began in Bra ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER – To safeguard Creation at the center of the Bishops’ message for the end of Ramadan Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims, Christians and believers of other faiths, all have a duty to work as servants of the Almighty, the Lord of earth and Heaven, in favor of Creation which is a wonderful and generous gift ...
• 8 August 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: The Country must remain neutral Dimane (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon can avoid the many pitfalls that threaten its stability only if it remains out of the wars raging on its borders and maintain its "neutrality before the on-going conflicts at a regional a ...
• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Legislative elections: "Orient oneself according to the candidates' coherence" say the bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Mgr. José María Arancedo, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, commented to the press, a few days before the first round of the ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Abuse and forced marriages for refugee children Zaatari (Agenzia Fides) - People continue to be increasingly desperate and poor. The children who fled the war in Syria with their families continue to be exploited, abused and forced into early marriages, quite unusual ...
• 7 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Strategic Security Plan: all together to stop violence and have peace Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Mexican Diocese in Irapuato, His Exc. Mgr. José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda, asked the population to support and contribute to the realization of the "Strategic Security Plan" ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rule of law almost non-existent, abuses are the norm", says a UN report Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are extremely concerned about reports of killings, torture, arbitrary detention, violence against women, forced disappearances, acts of popular justice, as well as the general climate of inse ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the name of Patriarch Tawadros II in a list of people to kill Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There is also the name of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the top of a list of the dozens of people to be eliminated, found in an unonymous envelope in a mosque in Cairo. The list inc ...
• 7 August 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Let us pray for the victims of injustice and for workers who receive low wages": 200 thousand faithful at the feast of the Santo Cristo de La Grita The Grita (Agenzia Fides) - In a nationally televised Mass, attended by more than 200 thousand faithful gathered at the Shrine of La Grita, the Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Mario del ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and logistics of poor quality penalize the children of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The poor quality of education that children receive in the Indian state of Bihar is a daily tragedy. In the village of Gandaman a school has just opened to help the most vulnerable community of Da ...