News

• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Historic decision: the birth of the "National Council for the rights of minorities" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is a glimmer of hope for minorities in Pakistan with a historic decision, the Supreme Court has ordered the government to establish the "National Council for the rights of minorities", an i ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal of Christian and Muslim leaders: "Pursue political dialogue for peaceful settlement and end the war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop war and start talking". This is the urgent appeal by Christian and Muslim religious leaders to the government and the rebels of South Sudan so that thay apply the peace agreements signed on 1 ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - 40 Christian leaders arrested for "forced conversions": religious freedom at risk Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - More than 40 Christian leaders were arrested, and then released, accused of alleged "forced conversions of Hindus". As Fides learns, the Nepalese police executed the wave of arrests, all leade ...
• 24 June 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Mission to relieve" the missionary campaign against human trafficking in persons Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission to relieve" is the theme of the Missionary Campaign 2014 which will be held during the month of October in Brazil. As highlighted in the note sent to Fides by the PMS in Brazil, "the t ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian leaders: "call off political rallies, demonstrations, one has to work to stop violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have watched in recent days as politicians who promised and swore that never again would Kenya walk the sad road of ethnic violence of 2007/2008, move around inciting Kenyans against one ano ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - A thousand children born in the refugee camp in Zaatari. The director of Caritas: we give them a future Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Little Aisha, born on May 27, is the thousandth among infants born in the clinic in the Zaatari refugee camp, 80 kilometers northeast of Amman, where there are at least 85 thousand Syrian refugees ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clean water and health care to reduce mortality among the most vulnerable Isiolo (Agenzia Fides) - In the rural county of Isiolo in central Kenya, more than 143 thousand people devoted mainly to agriculture live. Due to poor sanitation, diseases caused by unclean water (gastro-intestinal infec ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The restoration of the cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is almost complete Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - The cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is still closed and restoration work is not yet complete. But the prefecture authority has granted permission, however, to the Christians of Antioch, Iske ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Control and prevent outbreaks of cholera with a highly effective oral vaccine New York (Agenzia Fides) - An oral cholera vaccine proved to be 86 percent effective in controlling the disease during a recent outbreak in Guinea. Researchers with Epicentre, the research arm of the humanitarian organiz ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Disabled children integrated in public schools in the south-west area of the Country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru, in collaboration with Caritas Germany, has promoted the project "educational and social inclusion of children and young people with disabilities in the southwestern region of Peru". A ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - It is time to take action! More than 13 thousand children and young Hondurans at the U.S. Border Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Children should be in every policy decision and in all social action, we cannot destroy them with bad decisions", said the Vicar of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in Tegucigalpa, Fathe ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - An American missionary who dedicated her life to orphans in South Africa has been killed Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African police have arrested two men suspected of killing an 82-year-old U.S. religious, Sister Mary Paule Tacke, of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blo ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Confirmed: Christians are banned to use the name "Allah": for the Bishops "judges are not impartial" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Malaysia has confirmed the ban imposed on the Catholic weekly "Herald" to use the term "Allah" in its publications to refer to God. Thus the third degree of judgment co ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA - "Immigrants are transforming our Church", say the Catholic Bishops of North Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The issue of immigrants and migration was the focus of the work of the Conférence des Evêques de la Région Nord de l'Afrique (CERNA) which was held in Rome, from June 15 to 18. In the final stat ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Young people on hunger strike, the situation is still blocked Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - It has now been three days since 15 students have taken the decision to begin a hunger strike in the church of La Chiquinquira, in the area of La Florida in the capital Caracas, demanding the in ...