News

• 5 September 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The goals for the new year of the preparatory Seminary of Xing Tai Xing Tai (Agenzia Fides) - A spirituality centered on the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Penance: is Don Zhang Ji Can’s exhortation, Rector of the preparatory Seminary of Xing Tai, in He Bei province, to 70 seminarians ...
• 5 September 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops: "We adhere to the Holy Father’s appeal for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria" Washington ( Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, 30 August, in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the Bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines (Iowa), His Exc. Mgr. Richard E. Pates, President of the Episcopal Commission ...
• 5 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Deceptions of war on the border between Congo and Rwanda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – To create a "plausible" pretext to the Rwandese army in order to officially enter the Congolese territory. This seems to be the purpose of the artillery shots fired on and around Gisenyi, a R ...
• 5 September 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - At least 850 suspected cases of dengue in the north of the Country Moca (Agenzia Fides) - In different communities of Espaillat, one of the 32 Dominican provinces in the north of the Country, at least 850 suspected cases of dengue fever have been identified and the death of a person due ...
• 5 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Prevention against malaria for more than 180,000 children Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in Niger a prevention campaign has started against malaria which involves the treatment of children between three months and 5 years of age with a specific treatment called che ...
• 5 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians: record in Karnataka state Bangalore ( Agenzia Fides) - The Indian state of Karnataka continues to be the center of attention for episodes of violence against Christian communities. After the cases reported in previous days by Fides Agency, there ...
• 4 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Stop violence: fasting and prayer of the Bishops and the faithful in Damascus Damascus ( Agenzia Fides ) - "All the Bishops and faithful Christians in Damascus welcome the appeal to fast and pray for peace in Syria on Saturday, September 7. Prayer is our last chance to stop violence": says the sta ...
• 4 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mgr. Bertin: "I hope in authentic dialogue with regards to the need for everybody to get out of the crisis in Somalia" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Opponents, Shabaab or others, have targeted government and foreign organization representatives and their staff. This is because they want to destabilize the Somali institutions in the recons ...
• 4 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Letter from the Grand Mufti of Damascus to the Pope: "Let us work together for peace" Damascus ( Agenzia Fides) - In St. Peter's Square (if possible) or in the great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassou , spiritual leader of Sunni Islam, welcomes the Pope's appeal a ...
• 4 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace is life": the 26th edition of the Week for Peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - With the theme "Peace is life: we bargain peace, build coexistence" ("La paz es vida: pactemos paz, construyamos convivencia"), the 26th edition of the Week for Peace will be held in Colombia, fr ...
• 4 September 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II: Christians and Muslims become allies against sectarianism Amman ( Agenzia Fides) - The protection of the rights of Christians in religiously motivated conflicts afflicting the Middle East "is not a matter of courtesy, but a duty", partly because "Arab Christians have had a key ...
• 4 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Respect, promote and recognize the human rights of indigenous women San Cristóbal de Las Casas ( Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to work for the rights of indigenous women so that they are really respected, valued and recognized, in order to make sure that they also occupy their righ ...
• 4 September 2013
  ASIA/LAOS – Renounce Christian faith or leave: authorities order to 11 families Borikhamsai (Agenzia Fides) – The authorities of the village of Nongdaeng, in the Borikan district, Province of Borikhamsai, ordered 11 families who converted to Christianity (in all about 50 people) to renounce their ...
• 4 September 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Threats to the distribution of water in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of Anoud Senussi, daughter of Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, has raised protests from the Margani tribe, to whom the family of the kidnapped belongs. The ...
• 3 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Three cases of persecution of Christians in the state of Karnataka Bangalore ( Agenzia Fides) - Three episodes of violence and persecution of Christians occurred in the state of Karnataka, notorious for the presence of radical Hindu groups. As reported to Fides Agency by the ecumenical ...