News
17 January 2022
AFRICA/BENIN - Opening of the Jubilees of the Pontifical Mission Societies: all the baptized must become aware of their missionary identity
Porto Novo (Agenzia Fides) - "To make all the Catholic Christians of Benin live the four commemorations of the PMS in 2022": this is what Father Cosme Tayéwo Adjomale, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
17 January 2022
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - On January 22, the beatification of four martyrs: witnesses of an outgoing Church, which announces the Kingdom of God with words and deeds
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Next Saturday, January 22, at 5 p.m., Father Rutilio Grande, Jesuit, Manuel Solórzano and Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez, lay people, and the Italian Franciscan Fray Cosme Spessotto, OFM, wh ...
17 January 2022
AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops: "faith makes forgiveness, reconciliation and hope possible"
Panama city (Agenzia Fides) - "As we begin this year 2022, we are aware of the situations of division, polarization, intrigue, misinformation that exist in the various environments. We know that we have deep wounds due t ...
17 January 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Sisters detained in Addis Ababa released: they are all fine
Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Letemaryam Sibhat, Sister Tiblets Teum, Sister Abeba Tesfay, Sister Zaid Moss, Sister Abeba Hagos and Sister Abeba Fitwi, belonging to the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity Sai ...
15 January 2022
AFRICA/EGYPT - "Crislam" does not exist. Judge Mahmud Salam unmasks fake news on the Abu Dhabi Document
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The campaigns fueled in the West and in Arab countries to make people believe that the Document on Human Fraternity (signed in Abu Dhabi by the Bishop of Rome and the Grand Imam of al Azhar) would ...
15 January 2022
ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishops' appeal: respect human life and dignity, allow humanitarian aid
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference of Myanmar promotes justice, peace and reconciliation, and strongly requests all stakeholders to facilitate humanitarian access to the suffering and displaced people in o ...
15 January 2022
AFRICA/TOGO - "Equalization and the health of the priest": General Assembly of the Fraternity of Diocesan Priests of Togo
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The question of equalization and the health of priests is not the exclusive competence of the Bishops" declared Mgr Nicodème Barrigah-Benissan, Archbishop of Lomé and Apostolic Administrator of ...
15 January 2022
AFRICA/NIGER - Terrorism and violence in the Sahel: "More than 30 million people will need help and protection"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Three high school students had gone to spend a few days of vacation with their families in the village of Ngoula. Their return to school last Monday was fatal. One of the four friends managed to ...
15 January 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Ursulines of Gandino worried and saddened for their sister still in prison
Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the leaders of the Ethiopian community told me that Sr. Abrehet Teserma is still in prison. The biggest problem, besides the imprisonment itself, is that we have no news and today, 4 ...
15 January 2022
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim men arrested for kidnapping Christian teenager
Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the police for their quick response and action in arresting the perpetrators of violence against a Christian teenager. It is essential to break the culture of impunity", says to Fid ...
14 January 2022
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops: "Despite the negative signs in the country, we see signs of light and hope"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of their 117th Ordinary Plenary Assembly, the Venezuelan bishops released a Message for the New Year 2022, presented yesterday by the newly elected President of the Bishops' Co ...
14 January 2022
ASIA/SYRIA - International Conference of Religions in the north-east of the country
Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian city of Amudah, near the border with Turkey and 30 kilometers from Qamishli, the First International Conference of Religions and Beliefs in Mesopotamia was held on January 10-11, ...
14 January 2022
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Catholic priest arrested in the south-east of the Country
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic priest Fr. Bekong Tobias, was arrested last January 2 near the parish of Saint Charles Lwanga at Checkpoint-Molyko, Buea, in the Anglophone region of south-east Cameroon by gunmen beli ...
14 January 2022
VATICAN - Blessed Paolo Manna and the Pontifical Missionary Union
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies, was founded by Blessed Father Paolo Manna and recognized by Pope Benedict XV on October 31, 1916 with th ...
14 January 2022
VATICAN - Myanmar and Italy united in prayer and missionary reflection on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Paolo Manna
Vatican News (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of missionary activities: Blessed Paolo Manna and the contemporary world" is the theme of the two meetings for prayer and missionary reflection organized on Saturday 15 and Sunday ...
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