News
11 June 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN-"I have no news about the sisters who are in Kadugli, the situation of displaced persons is critical", said the coadjutor bishop of El Obeid
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The telephone network has been disabled and is therefore very difficult to obtain information from the area" His Excellency Mgr. Michael Didi Adgum Mangora says to Fides, coadjutor Bishop of El ...
11 June 2011
AMERICA/CHILE-After the hunger strike of the indigenous Mapuche people, now it is up to the state to resolve the issue once and for all
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - After the protest of the Mapuche workers, who were on hunger strike for 86 days, "now it is up to the state to fully resolve the conflict. The solution should begin with the modification of the ...
11 June 2011
AFRICA/REP. CENTRAL-"The widespread insecurity, forcing the population to live in despair", appeal to the international community of the Justice and Peace Commission
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in Central African Republic and, particularly, in the north and north-east, where raging armed gangs clearly identified sow desolation with total impunity, forcing populat ...
11 June 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Farah, Catholic Islamized by force, risks being sold abroad
Lahore (Fides Service) - Farah Hatim, 24 years old, Catholic, kidnapped by a Muslim family, converted by force and forced to get married to a Muslim, "is likely to disappear or be sold abroad": This is what Fides sources ...
11 June 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA-Aica Agency: 55 years of information at the service of the Church in Argentina
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Information Agency Católica Argentina (IACA) celebrates today, June 11, 55 years of existence: since it was established it has not stopped its information service. Established by the ...
11 June 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA-Overcrowded prisons: "disciples and missionaries who can help people in prison" are needed
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – According to the latest statistics from the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute(NPAPI), the Colombian penitentiary infrastructures have a capacity of 72,785 prisoners but currently there ...
11 June 2011
EUROPE/ITALY-Together with "Heroes of Health " for the right of health for all
Padova (Agenzia Fides) - Every three seconds a child dies from easily preventable causes; every day 1,000 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth; each year HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria k ...
11 June 2011
AMERICA/UNITED STATES-Catholic Charities of Illinois have filed a lawsuit against the state for violation regarding the rules on adoptions
Chicago (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of three Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Illinois (Springfield, Peoria and Joliet) have filed a lawsuit against the state, at the court of Sangamon County, following the ena ...
10 June 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG-A renewed commitment for the Sisters engaged in the diocesan pastoral of Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to give praise to God and to sanctify the soul of man through pastoral service: the renewed commitment made by the Sisters’ Association involved in the Diocesan Pastoral of Hong Kon ...
10 June 2011
ASIA/INDIA-Young Christians promoters of peace in Northeast India
Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Young Christians in Northeast India love peace and want to be promoters of peace in the area afflicted by ethnic conflicts and social tensions. In the diocese of Kohima (in the state of Nagaland) ...
10 June 2011
AFRICA/SWAZILAND-"In Swaziland a brutal and undemocratic regime": the alarm of the Bishops in Southern Africa
Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Swaziland is a country in turmoil, a country tearing itself apart from the inside by the actions of the uncaring state of head and a regime that is getting more brutal by the day". It is the ...
10 June 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Mobilization for Farah, the Catholic Islamized by force; she is one of the more than 700 victims every year
Lahore (Fides Service) - More than 700 cases are reported each year concerning Christian girls kidnapped, forced to marry Muslim men and forced to convert to Islam. And many cases pass unreported. This is what is reporte ...
10 June 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA-There is "a modest acceleration in the paperwork to relocate the refugees accepted in Tunisia to other countries", says Don Mussie Zerai
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The refugees were transferred from the camp where in recent days, some tents had been burned to another, on a hill near a Tunisian military detachment", says Don Mussie Zerai to Fides, Eritrean ...
10 June 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN-Health care assistance for the people forced to flee from Abyei
Abyei (Agenzia Fides) - Entire cities have been emptied and thousands of people are fleeing from the fighting erupted in the Sudanese region of Abyei on the night of May 20 (see Fides 21,23,24,25,30 / 5 / 2011 9 / 6 / 2 ...
10 June 2011
EUROPE/ITALY-At Pentecost "mandate" to young people participating in the WYD in Madrid
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 11 and Sunday, June 12, on the occasion of the Pentecost solemnity, in many dioceses Italian Bishops will give the "mandate" to the Italian youth who will participate in the World You ...
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