News
1 July 2013
AFRICA/KENYA - "Yes to the devolution of powers but not to that of the evils that afflict the central government," say the Bishops
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya express appreciation for the process of decentralization and devolution of powers from the central State to the 47 counties that make up the Country, under the new Constitut ...
28 June 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - New report on the civil war: Christians are among the "most vulnerable"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As the sacrifice of human lives in the Syrian conflict reaches the threshold of 100 thousand deaths, a detailed 78-page report commissioned and published by Open Doors International (relief age ...
28 June 2013
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "A situation never seen before in Central Africa," says Mgr. Nzapalainga
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A situation never seen before in our Country" said His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in an interview with the "Journal de Bangu ...
28 June 2013
ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders’ appeal: "Stop religious hatred; together for the development of the country"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the major religions in Myanmar launched a strong appeal to the nation to stop religious violence and build together the well-being and "a future of hope for the country": says a jo ...
28 June 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church launches the "Community Protection Groups" of religious minorities
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Karachi launches special groups to protect religious minorities, in particular Christians, from violence and terrorism. As reported in a note sent to Fides, in a seminar h ...
28 June 2013
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Decree on migration is ready, the first of its kind in the country
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - It is expected that on the 8th of August, President Evo Morales will issue a supreme decree on "immigration amnesty" in Bolivia. It would be the first decree which, together with the immigration ...
28 June 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - The victims in the Old Town caused by two mortar shells
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Sources of the Melkite Patriarchate in Damascus - whose headquarters is situated a few hundred meters from the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate - refer to Fides Agency that the cause of the death of ...
28 June 2013
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Tension in Mozambique after the recent attacks on transportation lines
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Mozambique increases, after an armed group linked to RENAMO blocked the E1, the main arterial road of the Country.
The E1 connects the south to the center-north of the Country and is ...
27 June 2013
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes of finding the priest believed to be dead alive
Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - There are still hopes of finding don Néstor Darío Buendía Martínez alive, the priest missing in Colombia and whose death was announced, after a body was found, that was believed to be his.
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27 June 2013
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE – Death of "Bepi" Berton, the apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Giuseppe Berton, a Xaverian missionary, apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone died on June 25, at the mother house of the Xaverians in Parma.
In a note sent to Fides Agency the current ...
27 June 2013
ASIA/INDIA - Two thousand villages flooded: Indian friars and nuns active in helping the victims in Uttarkand
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The flash floodings in Uttarkand are "a national tragedy that affects many of our people. As religious Indians, along with all the Church, we are deeply moved and we respond with prayer and wi ...
27 June 2013
ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and boycotted in Orissa on charges of "forced conversions"
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Hindu extremists have launched a series of attacks and boycotts against Christians in Orissa (eastern India). As reported to Fides by local sources, on 24 June a large group of Hindu extremi ...
27 June 2013
AMERICA/BOLIVIA – More violence in the TIPNIS, the Church at the side of the indigenous peoples
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - After the clashes which occured last weekend between the 2 groups that control the representation of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), the Catholic Church a ...
27 June 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Acts of vandalism and insults against a church: a Muslim man forgiven
Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Forgiveness, reconciliation, trust: with this attitude, the community of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in the Apostolic Vicariate in Quetta, Baluchistan province, handled a tric ...
26 June 2013
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest who disappeared days ago found dead
Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Father Néstor Darío Buendía Martinez (see Fides 25/06/2013) was found dead in an isolated area of the town of Los Cordobas. Although the priest had never reported of hav ...
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