News

• 5 August 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Rain and wind storms are causing severe damage in South Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - A downpour has destroyed more than 100 houses in a camp for the displaced near Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. El Salam camp spokesman told the local radio station Radio Dabanga that the rains ...
• 5 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The government of Juba rejects IGAD's peace plan, criticized by many Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The government of South Sudan has refused the peace plan presented by IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the organization that brings together the Countries of the Horn of Africa), c ...
• 4 August 2015
  ASIA/INDIA – Over half a million children engaged in risky work in cotton fields New Deli (Agenzia Fides) – The number of children working in cotton fields continues to rise. According to a survey by the Indo-Dutch Committee and the private body Stop Child Labour Coalition, in India this activit ...
• 4 August 2015
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA –La Negrita celebrations: the local Catholic Church calls for intervention in favour of the family Cartago (Agenzia Fides). “It is our duty to sensitise our people regarding certain important issues; we cannot be indifferent to situations which are painful and shameful for a country like ours ", said Bishop Gabriel ...
• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Night shooting in the capital, human rights activist wounded Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“There was shooting throughout the night in Bujumbura and it continued in certain districts until 9am. It is not yet known if anyone was injured or killed” Fides learned from local sources i ...
• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA – Bishops launch the African Year of Reconciliation Accra (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa launched an African Year of Reconciliation during celebrations for the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Symposium of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa ...
• 4 August 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLICA - “Haiti refuses to help its own emigrants to regularise their status ” Dominican Republic intellectuals claim Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) –Tension grows among the Haitians resident in the Dominican Republic because the Haiti government refuses entrance to its own citizens residing illegally in the neighbour coun ...
• 3 August 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Abortion is never therapeutic”: local Catholic Church attacks Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) – “We urge all authorities to safeguard every human person, in particular the weakest and most vulnerable, to love and respect them as a mother loves her child.”. This was said in ...
• 3 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - General Nshimirimana killed: fighting within the government or rebel ambush? Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“At the moment the situation in Bujumbura is quiet ” local sources in the capital of Burundi, told Fides the day after the killing of general Adolphe Nshimirimana, considered second in comma ...
• 3 August 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Floods and monsoon rains continue to strike the country causing major damage to people and structures Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Heavy flooding for several weeks in Pakistan has left thousands homeless and many dead. The weather is particularly bad in the northern mountainous regions where many villages are still isol ...
• 3 August 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Migrants: Bishops call for definitive solution Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The National Commission for Migrants of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Dominican Republic has called for a return to dialogue with Haiti in order to maintain existing neighbou ...
• 3 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Peace now” women march through the streets of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides)- Christians took to the streets of Juba, the capital of South Sudan demanding an immediate end to civil war which has continued for 19 months . The demonstrators, mainly women, carried placards wit ...
• 3 August 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Solidarity Prize: Spanish Bishops in favour of Las Patronas candidature Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops of Spain have decided to support the candidature of Las Patronas group of Veracruz (Mexico), for the 2015 Princess of the Asturias solidarity Award. The women in question, ...
• 1 August 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - No negotiating with gangs in the plan for National Security San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The National Security Council in San Salvador decided on 30 July, to exclude any negotiation with gangs and to go forward to implement the plan based on the strategy El Salvador Sicuro, F ...
• 1 August 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Papal altar to serve as parish church Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – The infrastructure used for the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis during his recent pastoral visit to Guayaquil, in Ecuador, will soon serve as a new parish church centre for two districts of ...