News

• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy: the imam who formulated false allegations against the Catholic girl Rimsha Masih has been aquitted Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Bewilderment and bitterness in the Christian community in Pakistan, when on Saturday a court in Islamabad acquitted Khalid Chishti, the imam who had made false accusations of blasphemy against ...
• 13 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Poverty and misery, the Indigenous Peoples in Mexico are left in the background Izamal (Agenzia Fides) - "To promote the rights of indigenous peoples and the development of their cultures and communities; recognize, promote and defend their rights to land, their land, their culture, their forms of o ...
• 13 August 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - AMECEA: Plenary Assembly 2014 in Lilongwe Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The 18th AMECEA Plenary Assembly will take place in Malawi, Lilongwe from 16 to 26 July 2014. The theme of the Plenary Assembly is "New Evangelization through true conversion and witnessing to ...
• 13 August 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - CAM4: Missionary America, share your faith with courage in every situation! Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - From November 26 to December 1 2013 the city of Maracaibo, capital of the state of Zulia, will become the Missionary capital of America, thanks to the fulfilment of the IV American Missionary ...
• 12 August 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "To see a brother in every man", the anniversary of the birth of Raoul Follereau Rome (Agenzia Fides) –Saturday, August 17th will be the 110th anniversary of the birth of Raoul Follereau, Ambassador of the poor, a friend of the youth. The Philatelic Bureau of the Vatican City State is completing th ...
• 12 August 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Canonization for Mgr. Romero, the Cuban Cardinal at the Eucharistic Congress La Tecla (Agenzia Fides) - The Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Special Envoy of Pope Francis at the V National Eucharistic Congress in El Salvador, asked the canonization of Mgr. Oscar Romero. "We ask the Lord the honor of ...
• 12 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Do not fall into indifference, we are all involved," says the bishop with regards to the disappearance of more than 20 people Córdoba (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not care if the people missing in Potrero Nuevo, Paso del Macho and Cordoba are one or more persons, whether they are victims or are associated with crime, what is important is to clarify ...
• 10 August 2013
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - National Migration Week, an opportunity to express faith and charity Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Portuguese Catholic Society of Migration (OCPM) is preparing the 41st national week dedicated to migrants and refugees, to be held from August 11 to 18, and hopes that this meeting is "a spec ...
• 10 August 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More than 500 women were killed in the first half of 2013 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 women were murdered in Colombia in the first half of 2013. The region of Valle del Cauca is at the top of the list with a total of 144 cases of femicide, followed by Antioquia with ...
• 10 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Matta Alkhouri: stop the speculation regarding the bishops kidnapped Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week some politician or some journalist pulls out some story on the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo kidnapped. But so far they have always been unverifiable deductions. The reality is ...
• 10 August 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Killed during missionary work 22 years ago, a witness which is always alive Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Diocese of Chimbote, commemorates the martyrdom of Franciscan friars Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Miguel Tomaszek in Pariacoto, and of Father Sandro Dordi in the town of Santa, ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA - Today International Day of the world’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 August every year we celebrate the International Day of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, which was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1994, with the resolution ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - International Day of Indigenous Peoples: the demands of the indigenous of Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples (which is celebrated today, August 9), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), convened an enlarged Council ...
• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence of the Seleka rebels continues against civilians, a missionary denounces Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against civilians committed by the rebel coalition Seleka continues in the Central African Republic. As reported to Fides Agency by Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, more than a thousand people hav ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Groups of the Assyrian diaspora in the U.S.: the Kurdistan Regional Government recognizes the genocide of our people Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Some organizations operating in the Iraqi Diaspora in the U.S. have sent a letter to Masoud Barzani, President of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, to ask for such a political entity to re ...