News
23 September 2014
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Public opinion divided on the request for the withdrawal of UNHCR from the country
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The news that the Dominican Republic will ask the United Nations to withdraw its Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from the country and its representative ...
23 September 2014
AMERICA/HAITI - Social movements denounce the failure of the UN Mission, protests in the streets
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Protests were held in the capital of Haiti against the presence of MINUSTAH (Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Estabilización en Haiti) due to its total failure. According to a note ...
23 September 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Religious leaders committed to calm tensions on the border with Uganda
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The local religious leaders are at the forefront to calm tensions in the border area between South Sudan and Uganda, among residents of Kajo-Keji (South Sudan) and those of Moyo (in Uganda). The tw ...
23 September 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Water emergency in Gaza, initiatives of AGIRE network
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage or complete lack of water in cities, villages and refugee camps weighs on the lives of people fleeing in different areas of the Middle East. The management of water supplies and the co ...
23 September 2014
AMERICA/PERU - "Gold fever" increases human trafficking and sexual exploitation
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Childhood is a treasure that is worth much more than gold karat" is the title of the campaign promoted by the NGO Anesvad to denounce the reality in which people live in the Peruvian region of Mad ...
22 September 2014
ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh: "The centrality of the family to overcome secularization"
Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "To overcome the challenge of secularization in Singapore that society is facing, and that touches believers of all religions, we have decided to restore the centrality of the family": says Hi ...
22 September 2014
VATICAN CITY - Bishops, called to give "a genuine missionary impulse" to their diocesan communities
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The church needs shepherds of souls – bishops – who are servants, and, "who know how to kneel down in front of others to wash their feet. Pastors close to the people, meek fathers and ...
22 September 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - IS is looking for recruits in Pakistan, Christians are appealing to the government
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic State, the jihadist formation operating in Iraq, has distributed leaflets in Peshawar and Pakistani provinces bordering Afghanistan, calling for new recruits and appealing to the loca ...
22 September 2014
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Waiting for the reform, migrant families continue to be divided
Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Laredo (Texas, USA), His Exc. Mgr. James Anthony Tamayo, complained that the proposed immigration reform has not yet arrived and the federal authorities are separatin ...
22 September 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops: the recognition of the "Aramean" nationality aims to divide the Palestinian Christians from others
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior that Christian Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel can now change their registration in the Ministry from Arabs to "Arameans" is denounced ...
22 September 2014
AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 70,000 children accused of witchcraft and persecuted
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70,000 Congolese children were tortured, abandoned, killed, because accused of witchcraft. Only in the region of Kinsasha 30,000 street children were removed from their families for t ...
22 September 2014
ASIA/SYRIA - The jihadists of the Islamic State destroy the memorial church of the Armenian Genocide in Deir el-Zor
Deir el-Zor (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) have destroyed an Armenian church in Deir el Zor, the city with a Kurdish majority, which they conquered in past days. The news, spread by local witne ...
22 September 2014
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Mercy and Compassion" is the theme of the Pope's visit
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The theme that will mark Pope Francis’ visit in the Philippines (from 15 to 19 January 2015) is "mercy and compassion": this was announced, in a note sent to Fides Agency, by the Catholic Bisho ...
22 September 2014
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Refugees in Liberia blocked due to Ebola
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) -The voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees in Liberia should have taken place in July. The Ebola outbreak in the neighboring Country has instead led the Ivorian authorities to close the borde ...
19 September 2014
AMERICA/URUGUAY – The meeting of the PMS of the American Southern Cone: working together for the mission Ad gentes
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the American Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil), met from 11 to 14 September on the outs ...
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