News
8 May 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - In 3 years Boko Haram has killed over 4,000 children
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The terrorist attacks of Boko Haram has since 2014 affected mainly children. Many of them are used for suicide attacks. The first study carried out by the United Nations Secretary-General on Child ...
8 May 2017
ASIA/JORDAN - The first network of Islamic and Christian university institutes in the Arab world
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The first permanent liaison network between Islamic and Christian university institutions and centers in the Arab countries has just been inaugurated in Amman. The initiative took place during th ...
8 May 2017
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Road Film Festival to give voice to the missing family members
Quiché (Agenzia Fides) - The Quiché department in Guatemala was one of the areas most affected by a 36-year-long armed conflict (1960-1996) that resulted in the deaths of 200,000 people across the Country and the disap ...
8 May 2017
ASIA/CHINA - Death of Mgr. Andrea Wang Chongyi, one of the oldest Bishops in mainland China
Guiyang (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, April 20, His Exc. Mgr. Andrea Aniceto, Wang Chongyi, Archbishop Emeritus of Guiyang, Guizhou Province, died. He was 97 years old and was one of the oldest Bishops in Mainland China ...
8 May 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Chibok Girls: "Why have we waited three years to negotiate their release?" asks Cardinal Onaiyekan
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God that these girls have re-embraced their families, but I wonder why they had to wait three years for this to happen", says Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja to A ...
8 May 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Leaders in Lahore: "Stop to the preaching of interreligious hatred on Tv"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Words of anti-Christian hatred on Pakistani TV have been strongly condemned and an appeal to stop the denigration campaign that instigates violence against religious minorities: this is what the ...
6 May 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Enough repression!": denounce the Bishops who defend popular protests
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "At present people need food, medicine, freedom and security, but the government does not solve these serious problems", denounces the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) in a statement relea ...
6 May 2017
EUROPE/SPAIN - The solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - May 7, Day for Native Vocations: the solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world. In mission territories there are 1,111 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (dio ...
6 May 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: In this critical phase, Christians must keep calm and put aside unrealistic projects
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - While the anti-caliphate forces progressively re-conquer Mosul, and interventions tighten on the future political structure of the regions subjugated to the control of the jihadis of the self-pr ...
6 May 2017
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops denounce: "African resources plundered by foreigners; the needs of local peoples are ignored"
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Governments of industrialized Countries seek to find a solution to the world's energy and food crisis in Africa without trying to meet the problems of Africans", denounce the Bishops' Conference ...
6 May 2017
ASIA/INDIA - A new Home of the Missionaries of Charity in Orissa
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Missionaries of Charity open a new home in the state of Orissa, East India. As Agenzia Fides learns, the new Mother Teresa religious community is located in the famous district of Kand ...
5 May 2017
AFRICA/D.R CONGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 7, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa, SVD as National Dire ...
5 May 2017
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Martin Brunner-Artho
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 15, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of permanent deacon Martin Brunner-Artho of the dioce ...
5 May 2017
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: "It is urgent to resume the path of ethics to rebuild social fabric"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Brazil, almost at the end of their 55th General Assembly celebrated in Aparecida, which ends on May 5, have issued an official note on the historic moment Brazil has been living ...
5 May 2017
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Poverty and domestic violence: First Causes of child marriage involving 1 girl out of 3
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Plan Internacional República Dominicana", an organization that promotes children's rights, recently presented its latest study entitled "Characterization of forced marriage of girls and ...
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