News

• 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 ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The phenomenon of the 'talibé' continues to worsen: 20,000 every day in Dakar alone Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children are forced to beg on the streets of Dakar just to have a hope of survival. These are known as 'talibé', boys and girls who live on the streets of Senegal and in other parts ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Torture, rape and disappearances for a total of 48,300 missing persons Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest data released by the National Commission of Human Rights, in Mexico, in the period from 2005 to 2012, 48,300 people disappeared, there were also a total of 48,750 vio ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church in the TIPNIS, "a missionary presence committed to human promotion" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary presence of the Church, in the course of several decades, has contributed to the social, cultural and religious configuration of these communities, which today manifest their ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Earthquake in the Southeast: the Church expresses solidarity, Caritas ready for intervention Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our solidarity and closeness to the affected families. As Catholic Church we are close to those who suffer," says to Fides Msg. Thomas Meram, Bishop of the Chaldean community of Urmia ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Provincial elections: 3 seats out of 447 reserved for Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the upcoming provincial elections, scheduled for April 20, the seats up for grabs in the different provinces are 447, and only nine of them are reserved to all the ethnic and religious minori ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Amnesty can be granted to Boko Haram only if they repent and reimburse the victims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "To continue on the path of simple repression alone does not solve the problem of Boko Haram. On the contrary it worsens things. So we have to at least consider the possibility of another way of d ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops to the government: "More consultations on reforms, or democracy weakens " Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Argentina ask the government for more time, more consultations, a more in-depth analysis and debate on draft laws crucial to the institutions in the country: is what was said ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In Kashmir false accusations against Christians for "conversions of children" Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, rejected as "false and misleading", a complaint by some mullahs (Islamic leaders) who accused the Christians of "conversion of children." As sourc ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Congo Caritas in charge of distributing the funds of the national collection for the east Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - It will be Caritas Congo to distribute the funds raised by the campaign of national solidarity for the population in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, launched on April 13 by the government ...
• 17 April 2013
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: to evangelize, baptism is enough Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Being Christian "is a gift that makes us go forward with the power of the Spirit in the proclamation of Jesus Christ." And "baptism is enough, it is sufficient to evangelize," to preach Chr ...
• 16 April 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the world there are between 5 and 8 million child workers: World Day against Child Slavery Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the World Day against Child Slavery is celebrated on April 16 . It was established in 1995, after the killing of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy who had complained of harassment since th ...
• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "The amount of drug that passes throughout our Country is alarming," denounces Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, called the huge amount of drugs seized recently in the country a "very serious" fact, because in his opinion it mean ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: Christians are encouraged to participate in the next election, but politics is the responsibility of the laity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - An encouragement to participate in the upcoming provincial election, and to make serious and positive proposals to contribute to the common good has been addressed to all the Christians of Iraq ...