News

• 19 April 2013
  AFRICA – Hunger emergency for a half million children in the Sahel region Gao (Agenzia Fides) - In just 8 years three serious famines have been recorded in the Sahel region and the population has not had time to recover. According to the international NGO Action Contre la Faim (ACF), approxima ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - In Mesopotamia the church of the Franciscans in Deir Ezzor has been destroyed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A violent explosion destroyed the church and convent of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in Deir Ezzor, in Mesopotamia. The information sent to Fides by Fr. Tony Haddad, Vice-Provincial of the Fria ...
• 19 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Central African Countries promise another 2000 men to ensure safety Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Other two thousand men will be sent by the Economic Community of Central African Countries (ECCAS) to strengthen the contingent already present in the Central African Republic (FOMAC). This was ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A Bishop: "Society does not want a new blasphemy law" Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - "Many different organizations in civil society have launched public initiatives to say no to the new proposed law on blasphemy. In general people are not favorable, but only some radical grou ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Iraqi Christians cannot live in a ghetto Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and other people of Iraq cannot live in enclaves drawn on the basis of ethnicity and religion. And the "militarization of the Arab Spring" represents "a loss for everyone." This is wh ...
• 18 April 2013
  AFRICA/TOGO - New reception home for the "portefaix" market in Hanoukope Lome (Agenzia Fides) - Trafficking and exploitation of girls and young women in Togo is particularly widespread, called portefaix. To help these poor victims the Spanish Catholic NGO Manos Unidas, through the Carmelite S ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The local Church wonders about faith and evangelization Kaoshiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith has been called as "time of particular reflection" to foster "a more complete conversion to God, to strengthen our faith in Him and to proclaim Him with joy to the people of ...
• 18 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The church offers itself as a guarantor of peace before the violence in the country Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We call upon the political and social leaders not to use offensive, derogatory and inflammatory language. In order to avoid clashes on the streets that often result in violence and sometimes in ...
• 18 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "More than a thousand people have sought refuge in the hospital" says the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are more than a thousand people who have take refuge in the hospital in Bangui, fleeing the fighting and looting in several districts of the capital," says to Fides Agency Mgr. Dieudonné ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties: Christians' appeal for democracy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political violence is ravaging Pakistan. As the general elections approach on May 11, terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties continue. "We are very concerned about this wa ...
• 18 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Infant malnutrition remains a serious problem Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In Latin America 12% of children under 5 years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition. Although there has been a decline, from 22% in 1990, the phenomenon is still painful. According to a docum ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian youth killed by a Muslim after a fight: the police is covering the murderer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A fight that degenerates on the difference of religion, then the homocide with a gun in his face. This is how Allah Ditta died, a twenty-year-old Christian, domestic worker in a small village i ...
• 18 April 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: dialogue between religions in Asia "for the common good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the "obvious areas of criticality of the Asian context", marked by situations of "injustice, discrimination, violence, abuse of the creation," "the active presence of different religious ...
• 18 April 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National dialogue mediated by the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches begins Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, April 18, at the headquarters of the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches (FFKM) of Antananarivo talks of national reconciliation begin, to try to get Madagascar out of the insti ...
• 18 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - " Pastoral ministry should always be missionary," Pope Francis’ message to his brother Argentinian bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is key to ministry. We have to go out into the deep outskirsts of existence". This is what Pope Francis said in his letter to the Bishops of Argentina who are gathered in their Ple ...