News

• 
  18 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For many, migration has become the only option to save one's life Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "New faces, very dynamic. Migration processes in Mexico" is the title of the report presented in Madrid on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, which is celebrated today by Entrecul ...
• 
  18 December 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - An ecumenical and inter-religious prayer for peace unites Christians and Muslims Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all Guineans and we are one people; who has one God the Creator of all". This was the focus of the ecumenical and inter-religious prayer for peace and for the good progress of the elector ...
• 
  18 December 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Missionary Church's commitment to those affected by leprosy Chhattisgarh (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary Church has a long tradition of assistance to leprosy patients, this is the case of the Jeevodaya Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Center which has been assisting people affe ...
• 
  18 December 2019
  ASIA - "To be with" is the way to bring Christ to Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "To be with. From here begins the Christian announcement in Asia. 'To be with' is the way to evangelize. It is important first of all to be, our presence in a context, a community, a society. Then ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Reaching out to migrants: joint initiative of the frontier dioceses of Brownsville and Matamoros Matamoros (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa del Migrante San Juan Diego and San Francisco, in the city of Matamoros, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the southern part of the US state of Texas, received three tons of ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Maccalli is "a thread that has united us for 15 months: we entrust him to the Lord" Crema (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen months ago Father Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions was kidnapped in Niger, in September 2018 (see Fides, 18/9/2018). Many people continue to keep his memory ali ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  VATICAN - The challenges of mission in Asia: a conference at the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The conference that, on the 20th anniversary of the post-synodal exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia", is to be held at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on 18 and 19 December focuses on the ch ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Two important ecclesial meetings in Malawi Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting helped us to better plan and prepare for the year of the Bible", said the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Vincent Mwakwawa, at the end of the planning meeting of the biblical yea ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The new law on citizenship to immigrants "is unconstitutional": appeal to "civil disobedience" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new law on citizenship (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019), approved by Parliament and promulgated on December 12 after the signature of the President of India, is clearly discriminatory, di ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - The new Armenian Patriarch: the issue of the Armenian Genocide exploited for economic-political strategies Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts us to see the events that happened to the Armenians 100 years ago on these lands, transformed into instruments of economic, political or strategic pressure by the Parliaments of other ...
• 
  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Life is sacred": Bishops outraged by the rules on the decriminalization of abortion San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Net refusal and indignation" for the signing of the so-called "technical regulation" on the decriminalization of abortion by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was expressed by the Episcopal ...
• 
  16 December 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer and solidarity for the earthquake victims in Mindanao Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A special prayer of the Rosary and a campaign of solidarity for the victims of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that affected the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, December 15 ...
• 
  16 December 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Let us pray and fast for peace in Niger" urges the Archbishop of Niamey after the massacre of 70 soldiers Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "After the massacre of over 70 Nigerian soldiers in Inatés on 10 December, near the border with Mali, the government ordered three days of national mourning. On Friday 13 December, the day of pr ...
• 
  16 December 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Children of today, our guardians of tomorrow Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "Children, what would you like to do today? It was fun to ask this question to our students of the Jesus Good Shepherd Primary school just after the flag-raising and prayer, to celebrate the rig ...
• 
  16 December 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "We look forward to building a united Bolivia, in the God of life, above differences" Tarija (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their Extraordinary Assembly, held in Tarija on 11 and 12 December, the Bishops of Bolivia sent a message of peace to the Bolivian people for Christmas. The Bishops say they find mo ...