News
3 December 2014
VATICAN – Religious leaders resolve “to work for the freedom of all those who are enslaved and trafficked”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “We pledge ourselves here today to do all in our power, within our faith communities and beyond, to work together for the freedom of all those who are enslaved and trafficked so that th ...
3 December 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop Alba: "We cannot allow criminals steal our streets, steal our peace"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – “We cannot allow criminals steal our streets” Bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, Catholic Bishop of La Paz in Baja California Sur (Mexico), underlined as he urged the Catholic community to ta ...
3 December 2014
AMERICA/JAMAICA - Poverty grows in urban communities while diminishing in rural areas
Kingston (Agenzia Fides) – One fifth of the Jamaican population grows steadily poorer. According to an estimate by the Jamaican Institute of Planning, the poverty rate is rising in cities while falling in rural areas, ...
3 December 2014
ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas Jordan in Salt launches ”Winter Campaign”
Salt (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday 2 December Ahliyyah school in Salt hosted the opening meeting for the launching of the Winter Campaign organised by Caritas Jordan in the area surrounding this historic Jordanian city. ...
3 December 2014
AFRICA/MALAWI – The dream of a nation free of the nightmare of AIDS
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - “There is widespread participation in Malawi on the annual day for the fight against AIDS” . Monfort missionary Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, who has worked in the country for several decades, tol ...
3 December 2014
AMERICA/PERU - COP 20: world meeting for climatic justice, churches together to care for creation
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Members and partners of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have called for the promotion from a faith perspective of a cause for climatic justice during the 20th United Nations Climate Change Co ...
3 December 2014
ASIA/CHINA - Evangelising with joy: a meeting of sharing, music and prayer
Hai Men (Agenzia Fides) – Two days of reflection and sharing, with intervals of music and prayer, organised on 29 and 30 November by the diocese of Hai Men, Jiang Su mainland China province, brought together more than ...
3 December 2014
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Churches to monitor presidential elections in January
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – The principal Christian confessions in Zambia will monitor presidential elections to be held 20 January 2015 by means of a purposely formed body: Christian Churches’ Monitoring Group (CCMG). ...
3 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA – Resignation of the Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 3 December 2014, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Jammu-Srinagar (India), presented by Bishop Peter Celestine Elamp ...
3 December 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Conference on Islam and Terrorism at Al Azhar. Imam al- Tayyeb: “takfirist” extremism perverts the Islamic religion
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) –'Takfirist' extremism which justifies with verses of the Koran violent and terrorist activity is a “perversion of the Islamic religion ”, and jihadist factions commit “barbaric crimes with ...
3 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - “Treated worse than animals”: dramatic situation of women with psychological or intellectual disabilities
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India women with psychological or intellectual disabilities are often closed in institutes and subjected to all kinds of abuse and violence. According to a Human Rights Watch report (HRW) ...
2 December 2014
ASIA/CHINA - The Year of Consecrated Life begins: witnesses of hope in the future
Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - Remember the past with a heart filled with gratitude, live the present with zeal, have hope for the future: these are the three main objectives for the Year of Consecrated Life highlighted by His ...
2 December 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Satisfaction for the release of the General, but it is necessary to resume talks for a definite peace
Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - After his release and that of other two people who had been kidnapped with him, which occurred on Sunday evening, November 30, General Rubén Darío Alzate Mora held a press conference the ...
2 December 2014
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A more functional school for 4000 children in one of the poorest regions of the Country
Soddo (Agenzia Fides) - A cooperation project led to the restructuring and the provision of school materials regarding the first public school which opened in Wolayta (the southern area of Ethiopia) in 1953. The institut ...
2 December 2014
ASIA/IRAQ – Churches in Mosul are used as prisons by jihadist of the Caliphate
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Some churches in Mosul have been transformed into places of detention by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), who have laid down laws in the northern city of Iraq since June 9. In particular, acco ...
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