News

• 17 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Dengue: cases in cities increase Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week, the hope of reducing the incidence of dengue fever weakens, the danger lurks in the houses putting at risk the health and lives of Hondurans," says a note sent to our agency by ...
• 14 June 2013
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Christian graves vandalised in the cemetery in Jaffa Jaffa (Agenzia Fides) - Attackers desecrated graves in an Arab Christian cemetery in Jaffa and the headstones were sprayed with Hebrew graffiti, apparently the incident took place probably in the night between Wednesday ...
• 14 June 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni consecrates St. Anthony Church in the UAE: "Confidence and hope for Christians" Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we consecrate this new temple dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua to God, that you built with your Pastor. You are the image of God’s temple. You, in fact, constitute the stones of the sp ...
• 14 June 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Campaign in favor of the elderly with financial difficulties Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Punta Arenas, through a campaign entitled "Fraternal Magallanes," has launched a pilot project for the elderly abandoned or who barely survive without assistance. The projec ...
• 14 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - National Migration Week, no to human trafficking Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "No to human trafficking and smuggling of migrants: challenges for the New Evangelization", this is the campaign sponsored by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferenc ...
• 14 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Let us intervene immediately to prevent the Central African Republic to become the Somalia of Central Africa" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Summary executions, sexual violence, targeted attacks on the basis of religious or ethnic belonging, arrests of opposition supporters and their families, torture, disappearances, recruitment of c ...
• 14 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians oppressed by abuse and usury in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian, victim of violent Muslim moneylenders, another kidnapped and tortured for a whole night: are the two lastest "ordinary stories of abuse" reported to Fides by the Christians of Punjab ...
• 13 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Health cannot become a business" Church's appeal for health care reform Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Colombian Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez has made an urgent appeal to the Government authority and Congress so that the health care reform, currently under discussion is carried out in a dignified, ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "The Constitution cannot be eaten, but can ensure food on our tables" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Even though we cannot eat a Constitution, a good Constitution will ensure that there is food on our tables, medicine in our hospitals and that quality education is offered in our schools," Fr. C ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Mathias I’s visit postponed. No "Coptic mediation" on the Ethiopian dam Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Mathias I has postponed his visit to Egypt which should have taken place on 17 June. The postponment of the visit belies the assumptions circula ...
• 13 June 2013
  VATICAN - "Renew faith overcoming temptations from different cultures," Cardinal Fernando Filoni’s visit in UAE continues Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - "You represent the diversity of the people mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles on the day of Pentecost ... Greetings and blessings on behalf of Pope Francis, who assured me that he is close ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Gunfight in Niamey, maybe it was a false alarm Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – It seems that the shooting near the national gendarmerie school of Niamey, capital of Niger, on the night between 11 and 12 June is not as serious as one thought. A missionary source told Fides ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 8, 2013 appointed rev. Fr. Czeslaw Stachera as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
• 12 June 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - Second National Ecclesial Assembly: Recognize the signs of the times beside the poor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "To conduct a national experience of ecclesial communion through the discernment of the signs of the times, in order to be a Church in a state of permanent mission to proclaim the Kingdom and d ...
• 12 June 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Christian Arab media: instruments of peace, not "self-referential" circuits Amman (Agenzia Fides) - At this time in history, the religious inspired media are called to choose between two opposing options: to serve the religion to which they refer "exploring its identity," or "destroy and subjuga ...