News

• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Bishops of the Middle East prepare their appeal to the world. Archbishop Marayati: No to military solutions for Syria Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The political changes in the Middle East were today a central issue in the work of the second Congress of the Patriarchs and Bishops of the Middle East, being held in Harissa. A session of the a ...
• 5 December 2012
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - The ordination of two deacons concludes the meeting of the Bishops of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Santiago de Cabo Verde (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-territorial Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, held from 26 November to 2 December, its first ordinary meeting of the pastoral ye ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The driver who had just accompanied two Bishops of Aleppo at the airport was killed Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – He was called Youssef Karme. He was a Greek-Catholic driver, father of three children. He drove the buses of an Armenian Catholic school in Aleppo, and he often used his private car to transpor ...
• 4 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian missionary victim of an attack, in serious condition Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A lay Protestant Christian missionary was the victim of an attempted murder and is in critical condition in "Jinnah" hospital in Lahore, capital of the province of Punjab. Bargeeta Almby, 72, of ...
• 4 December 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The intense spiritual journey of the Year of Faith continues with the opening of the new liturgical year Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - With the opening of the new liturgical year, the spiritual journey of the Year of Faith in mainland China intensifies. According to information gathered by Fides Agency, most of the continental ...
• 4 December 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Permanent Mission and Evangelization of the family: at the beginning of the Year of Faith denunciation of violence against indigenous peoples Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the novena in preparation for the feast of the Virgen de Caacupé, the main Marian devotion in Paraguay which is celebrated on December 8, in the Basilica of Caacupé (about ...
• 4 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of the young Muslim accused of blasphemy and died in prison is closed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The young Muslim, Nadeem Yousuf, 22 years old who died for reasons still unknown, while he was under police custody on charges of blasphemy (see Fides 03/12/2012) was buried yesterday in the town ...
• 4 December 2012
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 7, 2012 confirmed Mr. Martin Teulan as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 4 December 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 18 May 2012 confirmed rev. Oscar Zooungrana of the Archdiocese of Koupéla as National Director o ...
• 4 December 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Relative calm in Goma after the arrival of soldiers and police officers sent from Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The M23 has withdrawn from the center of Goma, but still controls the airport and the surroundings of the city. It has not withdrawn 20 km from Goma as it was announced, " says to Fides Agency ...
• 4 December 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We want to be a nation": Bishops’ reflections for Christmas Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "All the inhabitants of our country need to feel supported by a management team that not only think about their own interests, but is concerned first of all, of the common good," says the d ...
• 4 December 2012
  AFRICA/DRC - Two hundred thousand children at risk in armed conflicts in Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In the two Congolese provinces of Kivu there are more than 1 million 600 thousand internally displaced persons (IDPs). The recent arrival of the rebels of the M23 in the eastern city of Goma ha ...
• 4 December 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Illegal immigration in Somaliland increases Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - Many young people of the Republic of Somaliland continue to emigrate illegally, mainly because of lack of work. They pass through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya towards Europe. According to the Mini ...
• 4 December 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN-Somali immigrants accuse the security forces of abuse Juba (Agenzia Fides) – A number of Somalis took to the streets of Juba, capital of South Sudan, after the killing of their country man. A witness told Bakhita Radio said the deceased was an entrepreneur who was killed ...
• 4 December 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai: in the upheavals of the present time, even Christians are inspired by the "Arab renaissance" of the nineteenth century Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - In the great upheavals that are shaking the Middle East, the historical precedent in which even Christians can find inspiration is Nahda, the cultural and political renaissance experienced by th ...