News

• 22 July 2015
  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 ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The government orders the transfer of the military of the Nineveh Plain to Baghdad; Christian politicians protest Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi central government has ordered to transfer to Baghdad 4 thousand soldiers and police who previously worked in the north provinces of Iraq - including the province of Nineveh – and th ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Dominican Channan: "Dialogue with Islam to change the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians in Pakistan are suffering because of the abuse of the blasphemy law. Also, when a Christian is accused, the entire community suffers serious consequences": says to Fides Dominican Fat ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation: the pillars of peace promoted by the Church Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "We recognize in young people a fundamental reality: they are the way of hope to promote a new concept of the culture of love and peace". This was stated by the Archbishop of Acapulco, His Exc. ...
• 22 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A law is being requested against conversions of Christian minors without parental consent Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Mikel Munir, founder and leader of the political party of liberal character al-Haya, addressed a public appeal to Egyptian authorities to ensure that the personal status law under review, s ...
• 21 July 2015
  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 ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The body of a Franciscan who died a few days has been found Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - The body of the Franciscan priest Alex Pinto was found yesterday afternoon, July 20, along the road linking Ciudad Bolivar to Puerto Ordaz by some confreres and police who were patrolling ...
• 21 July 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Message: "Climate change, a matter of social justice" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine bishops' conference called climate change a “matter of social justice” and cited "Laudato Sì", Pope Francis' recent encyclical on the climate change, as a call for Catholics a ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Mission, a way of life": towards the fourth National Meeting of Missionary Groups Santiago del Estero (Agenzia Fides) - Organized by the National Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Argentina, the fourth National Meeting of Missionary Groups will take place in Santiag ...
• 21 July 2015
  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 ...
• 21 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Council of Christian Churches convenes a day of prayer on the anniversary of the 1952 "Revolution" Cairo (Agenzia fides) - The Council of Christian Churches in Egypt, through a statement of Coptic Orthodox priest Bishoy Elmy, head of the General Secretariat of the Council called on all Egyptians to join the "Day of Pr ...
• 20 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Jhabua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 18, 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Basil Bhuriya, S.V.D., Pastor and member of the Provincial Council of the Divine Word Fathers as Bishop of the Diocese of Jhabua (India). ...
• 20 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Kenema Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 July 2015 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Henry Aruna as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Kenema (Sierra Leone), transferring him from the diocese of Makeni. He was assigned ...
• 20 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Elevation to the episcopal dignity of Apostolic Administrator of Makeni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 18, 2015 the Holy Father raised Rev. Fr. Natale Paganelli, S.X., Apostolic Administrator of Makeni (Sierra Leone) to the dignity of bishop, assigning him the titular see of Gadiaufa ...