News
3 March 2016
AFRICA/SUD SUDAN - UN urges: “be quick to form a national unity government ”, violence is spreading
JJuba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan leaders must be quick to implement the peace agreement signed in August 2015. This was said by secretary general of the United Nations Organisation Mr Ban Ki-moon, during a brief visi ...
2 March 2016
EUROPE/CROATIA - Missionary Childhood in European countries reflects on the situation of children and families
Zadar (Agenzia Fides) – The European Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of Holy Childhood scheduled for 6 -9 March at Zadar, in Croatia, will bring together Holy Childhood National coordinators, National D ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Recognising his gifs of leadership and concern for the good of the Catholic Church in ...
2 March 2016
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops denounce: violence on children has doubled
San José (Agenzia Fides) – "Mercy or Violence?" is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, at the end of a recent assembly: "With deep sorrow we present information supplied ...
2 March 2016
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - Columban missionaries care for children after schools collapsed in cyclone
Suva (Agenzia Fides) – In the Fiji islands some 40 per cent of the population was affected by tropical cyclone Winston, which struck the archipelago on 20 February. Presently about 62,000 people are living in emergenc ...
2 March 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still no date for Presidential elections: will this mean a presidential vacancy?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There may soon be a presidential vacancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo unless elections are held before the end of November. This is the scenario after Corneille Nangaa chairman of the ...
2 March 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Ortodox Church: no one may produce a film about Patriarch Shenuda III without our permission
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Council of Coptic Orthodox lay congregations–influential body in the Coptic Orthodox Church, presided by the Patriarch himself – has cautioned producers of television series, films, and ...
2 March 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Attacks on Salesian Technical Farming Schooi in Barinas
Barinas (Agenzia Fides) – The Salesian community which runs a school in Barinas laments that about 15 hectares belonging to the institute are illegally occupied and recently a school truck was set on fire a few metres ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Petition for rights of displaced Christians amidst preparations for battle to take back Mosul
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – While US military sources confirm that the next objective in the fight against Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) will be to take back Mosul, a petition has been forwarded by Iraqi Chaldean Rae ...
2 March 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Police arrest suspected informer for Christmas 2011 attack on the church of St Teresa
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The local police have arrested a person suspected of taking part in preparations for the Christmas 2011 attack on the church of Saint Teresa of Madalla, near Abuja, capital of Nigeria. The incident ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nation marks fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – With special prayers in churches in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Khushpur and Sargodha and in many other places, Pakistan commemorated Shahbaz Bhatti on the 5th anniversary of his assas ...
1 March 2016
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appointment of new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Brian Joseph Lucas
Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 1 November 2015, appointed as the new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
1 March 2016
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - America's Catholic Bishops: “encourage prophets of mercy”
Tampa (Agenzia Fides) – According to a first report on a meeting of American continent’s Catholic Bishops held in Tampa, Florida (USA), 22 - 25 February (see Fides 23/02/2016), despite the complexity of issues f ...
1 March 2016
AFRICA/UGANDA - Sacrificed minors good omens for political elections
Mukono (Agenzia Fides) – Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM) based in Uganda has reported at least six cases of mutilation and killing of children as sacrifices to obtain “good luck ” in recent elections held in t ...
1 March 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Newly launched TV news chanel declares “war on war”
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – In the heart of the Middle East region torn apart by bloody conflict, a new satellite TV channel of Information , proposing news “ from the Catholic point of view”, in order to “buil ...
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