News
5 October 2012
ASIA/BANGLADESH - A Bishop: "Christian Children kidnapped and converted in madrassas or sold as slaves"
Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - It is a phenomenon that "disturbs the Catholic community in Bangladesh" and that "has to be monitored by the police": Christian children, of the tribal communities, are kidnapped, sold to "m ...
5 October 2012
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Taxi strike blocks the capital, Archbishop appeals for calm and dialogue
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Managua (Nicaragua) informs that the ecclesiastical authority, after meeting with the leaders of the union of taxi drivers in the capital who had sought the intervention of th ...
4 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGER - Infant mortality rate decreases, but malnutrition and food insecurity increases
Niamey (Agency) - Since 1998, Niger has almost halved the rate of infant mortality, a significant drop that has highlighted the benefits of universal free health care for children and pregnant women, as well as the incre ...
4 October 2012
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - "Ecclesia in the Middle East": a document that gives hope to Christians in the region
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Christian and Muslim Communities read, spread, photocopy, studying the Post-Synodal Exhortation "Ecclesia in the Middle East", issued by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Lebanon. As reported ...
4 October 2012
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After 20 years since the peace agreement, the Bishops ask to strengthen democracy
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Mozambique celebrates today, October 4th, the 20th anniversary of the peace agreement that put an end to nearly two decades of civil war that erupted after the independence from Portugal.
The lo ...
4 October 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace," says Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga for the 50 years of Mensajeros de la Paz
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace, and solidarity is the way out of the problem of poverty," said the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal ...
4 October 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - UN Report: 400,000 earthquake victims still in tents
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 400,000 earthquake victims in Haiti in January 2010 are still living in tents, which have increasingly deteriorated due to lack of resources: the alarm is from a recent United Nati ...
4 October 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - "The love of the Good Shepherd: loyalty and sacrifice" theme of the Day of Catholic education
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "The love of the Good Shepherd: loyalty and sacrifice" was the theme of the Day of Education of the Diocese of Hong Kong held on 23 September. According to the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version ...
4 October 2012
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A Jesuit priest killed for robbery
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Bruno was the victim of a violent assault and suffered a brutal death. The local Jesuit community is devastated," said to Fides the Church sources in Antananarivo, capital of Madagasca ...
4 October 2012
OCEANIA/COOK ISLANDS - The Year of Faith in the Pacific travels via e-mail
Rarotonga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of Faith is an opportunity for us Catholics of immense value, to deepen our faith. We will do this through seminars, conferences, formation programs and catechesis, in full communion ...
4 October 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Two Copt children arrested for insulting the Koran: a "Rimsha case " in Egypt?
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of two Coptic Orthodox children accused of urinating on the pages of the Koran is just the latest manifestation of a "growing hatred toward Egyptian Christians that is expressed in many ...
4 October 2012
ASIA/INDIA - The marginalized communities march to protest against the exclusion from the development of the country
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - About 35,000 people left yesterday from Gwalior, a city in the center of northern India, to reach New Delhi in a-350-kilometer march. About 100 000 Indians are expected to arrive to protest th ...
3 October 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan for the Year of Faith
Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan published a Pastoral Letter for the Year of Faith, signed on September 8, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the document sent to Fides Agency, ...
3 October 2012
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rapes and violence against innocent little victims still go unpunished
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A wave of recent cases of rape has sparked local criticism on the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and incompetence provide littl ...
3 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Sindh government grants land to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Sindh province (in southern Pakistan) has given to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary land on an extended loan in the center of Karachi for a period of 99 years. During a ceremony h ...
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