AMERICA/GUATEMALA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 12, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. David Arias Guzman, of the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians ( ...
ASIA/THAILAND - Trafficking of women and child prostitution continue
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Trafficking of women, the majority from neighboring Countries such as Burma, Cambodia or Laos, continue to crowd the Thai brothels where these poor victims, often minors, are kept as slaves. In ...
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The water crisis threatens millions of people
Rio De Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America has 30% of global water resources, however, because of mismanagement in the distribution or climate change, that already pose a serious threat to agriculture in the entire C ...
21 July 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian brothers arrested on charges of blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian brothers were arrested on charges of blasphemy after one of them was accused of having published offensive material on his website. As Fides learns, already in 2012 an official comp ...
ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo becomes "almost-mayor" of Hassaké
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian city of Hassake, where the counter-offensive of the Kurdish forces and the Syrian army has put the outlying suburbs under siege still occupied by jihadi militias of the Islamic St ...