News

• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The U.S. Pentagon to General al-Sissi: Protect the Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel, in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, September 17 with General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, rebuked the strong man of the Egyptian army to make every effort to ...
• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Peace is the supreme good to rebuild Syria": the Syrian people welcomes the Pope's new appeal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To restore hope to the Syrian nation, to rebuild schools, infrastructure, hospitals, to allow the return of refugees, peace is the supreme good. For this reason we welcome with respect and ...
• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vigil for peace in Zamboanga: on September 21: government, Church, civil society will unite Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A massive event and a vigil for peace for Zamboanga and the southern Philippines will see, on September 21, in the capital Manila, the Philippine government, the Catholic Church and several civil ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church inherits the grand Luna Park theater, National Monument of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The grand "Luna Park" theater in Buenos Aires, able to accommodate up to 10 thousand seated spectators, where memorable pages have been written in the history of politics, culture and sport ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian schools strike to protest against the acts of vandalism in an institute Calcutta ( Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools in the state of West Bengal will be closed on September 19 to protest against the acts of vandalism that hit a Christian school near Calcutta. As reported to Fides by the loc ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Narendra Modi Premier candidate: for the Church "it is political suicide of the BJP " New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The main opposition party in India, the "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), a markedly nationalist formation that contends the government of the country and the Congress Party and was in power in ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR – A Congolese nun wins the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - "She is a true heroine", said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in announcing the Nansen Refugee Award to Sister Angélique Namaika, a Congolese nun who works in the nort-e ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: Patriarch Sako's appeal to Christian politicians Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) – With regards to the upcoming general elections for the Kurdistan region of Iraq - set for Saturday, September 21 - the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako appealed to t ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Seminary "Saint Jean-Marie Vianney" in Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 July 2013 appointed Rev. Achille Djihounouck, of the clergy of the Diocese of Ziguinchor as Re ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The deaths of poor children are 5 times higher in Latin America than in the rest of the world Panama (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the decline in the maternal mortality rate, there continues to be serious inequalities regarding access to health services for women and children because of poverty in Latin America. ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Your Holiness, pray for peace in the DRC": letter from "Première Dame" to Pope Francis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Congolese people, who I humbly represent, I would like to ask His Holiness for the intercession of prayer for lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo", asks Ms. Mari ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - School lessons for 7 hours a day next to a landfill and among stray dogs Pachuca (Agenzia Fides) - The pupils of the Ignacio Zaragoza elementary school, which is situated in the El Huixmi community, in Pachuca, a city in south-central Mexico, capital of the state of Hidalgo, are forced to liv ...
• 17 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Forming a conscious citizen of the right to peace": month for peace in Sincelejo Sincelejo (Agenzia Fides ) - "If you want peace in Colombia, one must form a conscious citizen to have the right to peace. But it is also necessary that people have the right to protest, without violence, and also has th ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "Dangerous escalation in Zamboanga: the government has not explored all possible diplomatic channels" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict in Zamboanga between government troops and rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), which, in ten days has caused, according to latest figures sent to Fides, ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Bishops' Pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On September 10, 21 Korean Bishops made, for the first time, a pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines in Seoul, to celebrate the Year of Faith and the Month of Martyrs. The Archdiocese of Seoul ...