News

• 20 July 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo to the leaders of the nation: "Be good parents" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We expect our rulers to be good parents. In our culture, parents are revered as gods. According to our traditions, our leaders have the right and the duty to promote the welfare of all": is the ...
• 20 July 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Why are we so inhuman towards each other?" Asks Mgr. Gimenez denouncing violence Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Caacupé, His Exc. Mgr. Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, complained about the wave of violence that hit the north of the country, where in less than a week five policemen were ki ...
• 20 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: no to violence against women New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of the Franciscan Family in India (AFFI), which brings together religious, sisters and lay people of different orders, followers of Francis of Assisi, is committed to raising a ...
• 20 July 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Three African Christians kidnapped by jihadis in the south of Sirte; four Italians kidnapped in Mellitah Sirte (Agenzia Fides) - Three Christians - a Ghanaian, a Nigerian and a Coptic Egyptian – have been kidnapped in Libya by a jihadist group linked to the Islamic State (Daesh). The kidnapping dates back to 11 July, but ...
• 20 July 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Games, songs, dances: a feast to celebrate children El Tigre (Agenzia Fides) - Among cultural events, games, music, songs, dances, thousands of children and adolescents, not only in the district of El Tigre but also of the municipality of San José de Guanipa, found thems ...
• 20 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Young Chiapas form an orchestra with pre-Hispanic instruments Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - Boys and girls of Palenque, Chiapas, of the infant Niños Cantan orchestra, have formed an orchestra to reproduce sounds with pre-Hispanic Mayan musical instruments. The project started ...
• 20 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenians and Kurds fight together against the jihadists in Hassaké Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - There are at least 70 volunteer Armenian soldiers in the predominantly Kurdish ranks of the Popular Protection Unit (YPG), which in parallel with the Syrian army units are fighting to liberate ...
• 20 July 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A video documents the first missionary experience of young people in the Amazon Belém (Agenzia Fides) - A video documenting the first Youth Mission in the Amazon, organized by the Youth Commission of the Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) last December, was broadcast for the first time, to the ...
• 17 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Priest stabbed to death on the doorstep Seville (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Carlos Martinez Perez, 75, died yesterday afternoon, July 16, victim of a brutal assault on the door of his home after celebrating the Eucharist in the church of San Leandro convent, where h ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - More violence in the M'Zab valley. Bishop Rault: repression alone cannot help but spread violence Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - The M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria, continues to be the scene of sectarian violence on ethnic-religious basis, that the Algerian security apparatuses are not able to stop. The clashes have cr ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We must start again from scratch", says the Bishop Emeritus of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 July, South Sudan celebrated its fourth year of independence. Unfortunately the anniversary is marred by ethnic conflict, due to the clashes of government forces of President Kiir, an ethnic D ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - "Clashes within military forces with arbitrary arrests and torture", 'Justice and Peace' denounces Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - Mass protest in Lesotho against human rights abuses by the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. Earlier this week, the capital Maseru was a "dead city" with offices and shops closed a ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New assaults of the ADF/MDI in the territory of Beni: fires, looting, pillaging Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven people were killed in the assault on July 15 in three villages in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on behalf of ADF-NALU, a group of Ugandan or ...
• 17 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Antiba confirms the kidnapping of Father Antoine Boutros and his collaborator Khabab (Agenzia Fides) - "I can confirm that Father Antoine Boutros and his collaborator Said Al-Abdun, who have been missing since last Sunday, were actually stopped and seized by one of the several armed rebel groups t ...
• 17 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Sexual abuse on children have repercussions in adulthood Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of sexual abuse and violence against children continues to be one of the main problems of the Country. In 2014, NGO Doctors Without Borders recorded a total of 1,715 cases of ...