News
2 April 2012
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU-The Bishops call to live Holy Week as a "Week of Reconciliation"
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "During Holy Week, we are called to live more intensely, our faith, renewing it in prayer, fasting, charity, listening of the Word of God. In this atmosphere of faith and hope, we prepare ourselv ...
2 April 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS-60 families still waiting to bury their loved ones who died in the prison in Comayagua
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice, Peace and Love" are the words written on a mural that depicts the Virgin of Suyapa which occupies one wall of the sports Leon Alvarado Institute of the city of Comayagua. These thr ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/LAOS - To celebrate Easter, Christians occupy a requisitioned church
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – It is an act of extreme and risky protest, because the faithful might soon be arrested: yesterday, April 1, Palm Sunday, a group of Laotian Christians in the village of Kengweng in the pro ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Minorities and civilian victims of armed Salafist gangs: No to "religious war"
Kusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In Kusayr, a large village near Homs, on the border with Lebanon the ethnic minorities and religious such as Alawites, Christians, Shiites have been subjected to violence and atrocities perpetrat ...
2 April 2012
AFRICA/MALI - The rebel advance, the fear in Mopti grows
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "A growing fear among the residents of Mopti and the rebels comes to conquer the city, many people are fleeing " Church sources in Mali told Fides, where rebels of the Movement of National Libera ...
2 April 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - To awaken with major ardor the missionary task: all communities prepare the third National Missionary Congress
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The main activity that involves the Pontifical Mission of Brazil in this period is the preparation of the third National Missionary Congress, on the theme: "Missionary discipleship in Brazil fo ...
2 April 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Observers divided over the candidacy of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in the presidential elections
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim Brotherhood's decision to present its own candidate in the presidential elections in Egypt is dividing the local and international commentators.
On Sunday, 1 April, the Brotherhood lea ...
2 April 2012
VATICAN - WYD 2013 in Rio de Janeiro "aims at increasing young people's faith in the world for mission"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "This World Youth Day (WYD) 2013 in Rio is situated in the context of the Continental Mission wanted in the meeting of the Bishops of CELAM in Aparecida in 2007. At the universal Church lev ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: elections and pluralism, "beginning of a new era of peace"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The result of the elections, although not yet official, "is a new beginning for the country, the beginning of an era of great hope for us all. The opposition will be present in Parliament, a fact ...
30 March 2012
MISSIONARY INTENTION-"That the risen Christ may be a sign of certain hope for the men and women of the African continent" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for April 2012
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Africa is "a continent of hope" par excellence. But like all human realities, it is not able to find the basis of its hope in itself. If it is true that the African Church is full of youth ...
30 March 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The lay missionaries share their experience with younger students
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of the lay missionaries of the Commission for the Diocesan Youth Pastoral helps the young of Hong Kong to live more in a Christian spirit, especially in the Year of the Laity. A ...
30 March 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The mediation of the Bishop restores calm in the prison of Sula after the riot and fire that caused at least 13 deaths
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Thirteen prisoners died in a clash between groups of prisoners and the outbreak of a fire: which took place inside a prison in Sula, an industrial city in the north of the country, where the ...
30 March 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu Fanatics beat Christians in Karnataka
Mundargi (Karnataka) - Allegations of conversions and then violent beatings: is what the Hindu extremists of the movement RSS ("Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh", "National Volunteer Organization") did against the Christian P ...
30 March 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - Fire "suspects" to throw out the displaced: the denunciation of the social groups in Haiti
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has published the complaint of a "Collective" which brings together some of Haiti's civil society organizations on what happened last March 24: A series o ...
30 March 2012
AFRICA/MALI- A polarization between supporters and opponents of the junta is feared, while the rebels advance in the north
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - There are clashes in the capital of Mali, Bamako, between the pros and cons of the military junta after the coup on March 22. This is reported to Fides by local sources. "Yesterday, March 29, opp ...
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