News
15 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission "Justice and Peace": "the UN envoy is invited to Pakistan, we need to abolish the blasphemy law"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Pakistani Bishops have invited the UN Special Observer on religious Tolerance to visit Pakistan to see the "abuses and violence against religious minorit ...
15 September 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - Strong solidarity towards the victims of the fire in Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Kenyans in Nairobi are queuing up to donate blood for the victims of the pipeline explosion and fire which killed a hundred people and injured 118 people in the slums of Sinai, in Na ...
15 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a court "influenced by Islamic extremists" and "without a lawyer"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is more than a shadow on the case of Asia Bibi, a 40-year old Christian woman, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy. Asia was judged by a court "under the obvious pressure of Islamic ex ...
15 September 2011
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND -Prevention, concrete initiatives, prosecution of traffickers: how to counteract the globalization of human trafficking
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - "To counteract the scourge of trafficking of women and children with greater determination and more concrete results, a convergence of efforts is necessary: a mentality that is centered on the un ...
15 September 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week of the Migrant: 4 million people have fled the country, even due to armed conflict
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - This year's "Day of the Migrant" has become in Colombia the "Week of the Migrant". Therefore the space traditionally dedicated by the Catholic Church to think, work and pray so that understanding ...
15 September 2011
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Cholera continues to spread, to hold it back a campaign on the use of drinking water and lavatories would be sufficient
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Health officials in Burundi are trying to contain an epidemic of cholera which, since August, has killed 12 people and has infected more than 600. Although the epidemic is under control, in so ...
14 September 2011
EUROPE/GERMANY - Appeal during the International Meeting Man and Religions: "It is time to change, the world needs more hope and more peace"
Munich (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to change. The world needs more hope and more peace. We can learn again to live, not against each other, but with each other. We are aware of the responsibilities of religions in enda ...
14 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Duc in altum": the theme of 'Year of the Mission for the Church in Pakistan
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Church of Pakistan, Duc in altum" This is the theme of the Mission and Evangelization, which will be launched by the Church of Pakistan, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Pontifical Miss ...
14 September 2011
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Maybe the truth is round the corner": Mgr. Rosa Chavez on the death of Mgr. Romero
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez confirmed to Fides what he said at a press conference on Sunday, September 11, with regards to the recent publicatio ...
14 September 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - Institutional meetings for Mgr. Martinelli before returning to Libya
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I had the pleasure to meet Mgr. Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with the States, together with the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya, His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni ...
14 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Bishops' appeal: "No to death penalty and execution of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " As Church of India we are against death penalty and we ask for the salvation of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins. We hope that our country will firmly take the road of abolishing capital punish ...
14 September 2011
AFRICA/GHANA - The Church must make a significant contribution to the peaceful development of the 20 forthcoming African elections
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We must ensure that by December 2011, the Catholic Church can claim to have made a significant contribution to peace in Africa through interventions that have ensured the peaceful and fair develo ...
14 September 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - Most African countries have serious difficulties in the health care of pregnant women
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Studies carried out by the Institute for African Development Policies (AFIDEP) in East, West and Southern Africa, showed that most countries have great difficulties for universal access to repro ...
14 September 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The march of the indigenous towards La Paz stops, waiting for dialogue
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Santa Cruz has publicly complained about the fact that the government does not show any openness to dialogue with the natives who march towards the city of La Paz to de ...
14 September 2011
ASIA/THAILAND - Post-flood trauma: 600 displaced have committed suicide, but "in the disaster the country finds unity"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – It is a tragedy within the tragedy" for over a week heavy rains have not stopped in Thailand and have caused flooding in 21 provinces in central-south part of the country, provoking 87 deaths ...
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