News
22 July 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr Alvarez on the national situation: "Need to build a country where the dignity of the person is respected"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) has received information on the murder of Jorge Rizo in La Trinidad, Estelí. The tragic events took place after the victim shouted anti-g ...
22 July 2020
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic nun "mother of the mentally disabled" dies from Covid-19
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Sister Ruth Lewis, 74, religious of the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Christ the King (FMCK), who lost her battle against Covid-19 on 20 July 2020, at the Agha Kh ...
22 July 2020
ASIA/TURKEY - "Kemalist theologians": the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque fuels Islamophobia
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The decision to reopen the ancient Christian basilica of Hagia Sophia exclusively for Islamic worship risks becoming "a serious and irreparable error", destined to foment Islamophobic sentiment ...
22 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The funeral of Mgr. Scarpellini: in life he gave everything for the announcement of the Gospel
El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 20 July, in the Cathedral of the diocese of El Alto, dedicated to the Virgin of Carmel, the funeral mass of Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini was celebrated, Bishop of El Alto, who died on 15 ...
21 July 2020
ASIA/MYANMAR - The fruits of the mission: charity and interreligious coexistence in Kalaw
Kalaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The dormitories of our school also host young Buddhists or Muslims. After all, the message of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, is to open up to others in peace". This is what Father Lucas Maung Hla ...
21 July 2020
ASIA/TAIWAN - Young Vincentians: witness to the faith in society
Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ is alive and wants you alive", and he wants every young person to be ready to bear witness to their faith and hope in society: this was the focus of the gathering of the Vincentian Mar ...
21 July 2020
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean patriarchate: the expulsion of Iraqis carried out by the USA is "Inhuman and immoral"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate, led by Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, is following with concern the story of Iraqis who have been residents of the United States of America for a long time and are now ...
21 July 2020
AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionary Childhood Day: children can be saints even with the little means they have
Namugongo (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus loves children and, like him, they too must share that love with their peers and their families", said Dorothy Atuhaire Ssonko, Sunday school teacher of the minor Basilica of the Martyr ...
21 July 2020
AMERICA/PERU - First World Assembly for the Amazon: moratorium on mining
Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 19 July, movements, groups and organizations of the indigenous peoples that make up the Amazon Basin asked the nine countries involved to apply a moratorium on mining activities in the ...
21 July 2020
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics return to the streets for transparency and justice
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Our main request today is to clearly express refusal and indignation to have the so-called 'new animators' of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) imposed, chosen from among th ...
21 July 2020
VATICAN - Aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency to support monasteries, rural communities, parishes in Africa and Latin America
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic that has been marking the lives of peoples of all continents for months, also places serious limits on the life of ecclesial communities, which face difficulties and o ...
20 July 2020
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Priests and religious: "It is time to resist against a dangerous and unjust law"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "I was here, in these same streets with a crowd of people on February 24 and 25, 1986, 34 years ago, when I was still a young seminarian. Today I have returned here as a sign of protest. Despite ...
20 July 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Rumors about an alleged contagion from Covid-19 for Coptic Patriarch Tawadros denied
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - No coronavirus infection for Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. It is the same Pope Tawadros who confirmed this, with a dry denial in which he de ...
20 July 2020
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fr. Walter Maccalli: the pastoral activities of our churches are slowly resuming
Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In Liberia we are in the middle of the rainy season and our people are engaged in rural work. During this period, malaria makes itself felt as every year and affects everyone, men, women and espec ...
20 July 2020
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Anti-terrorism law, from the Bishops a "call to conscience"
Manila (Agenzi Fides) - "In the midst of this desolate political landscape, we find consolation from the groups of lawyers and ordinary citizens who have filed petitions before the Supreme Court, questioning the constitu ...
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