News
12 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Land grabbing", an instrument of oppression against religious minorities
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is another subtle instrument of oppression against religious minorities in Pakistan: "land grabbing". It is based on rent, purchase or expropriation of large plots of land, and in Pakistan ...
12 October 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - The Bishop of Djibouti" satisfied with the response of the Catholic world to the tragedy in the Horn of Africa"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very pleased with the response of the Catholic world to the Holy Father’s appeal for Somalia and other countries in the Horn of Africa", says in an interview with Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giorgi ...
12 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Governor Taseer’s murderer’s death sentence has been suspended, the path towards "Islamic forgiveness" is open
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Court of Appeal in Islamabad declared the admissibility of the appeal prepared by Mumtaz Qadri’s lawyers, the self-confessed murderer of the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, who had defen ...
12 October 2011
AFRICA/LIBERIA - The Liberians voted en masse, the Bishops hope ethnic divisions can be overcome
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral process to elect the new President of Liberia and the renewal of the House of Representatives and the Senate were carried out peacefully (see Fides 11/10/2011). Voters flocked to ...
12 October 2011
AFRICA/UGANDA - Food prospects have improved in the Karamoja region although the rate of malnutrition is still very high
Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - The region of Karamoja, northeast Uganda, is often associated with chronic food shortages, malnutrition and poverty. However, according to humanitarian agencies, it is unlikely that in the coming ...
12 October 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Amnesty for 6 000 prisoners, among them "prisoners of conscience"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, has granted amnesty to about 6,300 detainees, and some of them are political prisoners or of conscience: this is what Fides learned from sources in Myanmar. ...
11 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Girl raped, and converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Kidnapped and raped repeatedly for eight months by a gang of Islamic militants. Devastated and traumatized, was converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim. The story of Anna (fantasy name), ...
11 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The vows of the religious women from different congregations and a diaconal ordination bear witness to the missionary vitality of the continental Catholic community
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The vitality and missionary aspect of the continental Catholic community continue to manifest itself in the month of October with the vows of the religious women from different congregations an ...
11 October 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "A crisis which has its roots in the past": reflections of a missionary from Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "During Mubarak’s years division and hatred among the various factions deepened", says Fr. Luciano Verdoscia to Fides, a Comboni missionary who has been living and working in Cairo for many year ...
11 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, one thousand girls from religious minorities are kidnapped, raped and converted to Islam
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - About 1,000 Christian and Hindu girls are kidnapped and raped by Muslim radicals, forced to Islamic marriage, sometimes killed in Pakistan every year: Fides sources in the Catholic Church and ci ...
11 October 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Orissa: "an isolated case, not motivated by religious hatred"
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Jiban Masi, a 70-year-old Protestant pastor, was killed on Sunday, October 9 by a psychopath in the village of Bada Raksi, in Sundergarh district, in Orissa. The district is located in ...
11 October 2011
AMERICA/PERU - A special Mission Day, with the relics of St. Teresa at the headquarters of the PMS and the first "virtual Campaign"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Peru always celebrate with immense intensity the month of October and World Mission Sunday. This year in particular there is even another reason of joy: t ...
11 October 2011
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - A school for the poorest of the poor
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 boys and girls, who mainly come from poor families, attend St. Louise School in El Salvador. It is an oasis of peace away from the city drowned by drugs, violence and rebellio ...
11 October 2011
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Threats cannot intimidate the Nicaraguan Church", said the Bishop of Matagalpa
Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua) made a complaint to the local press that he received threats over the phone. One of his family answered the call and he ...
11 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Still no school for children in the areas hit by the earthquake in 2005
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - According to the estimates recorded by Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) after the earthquake that devastated Pakistan in 2005, in the district of Shangla 204 schools were d ...
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