News

• 16 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Congress of catechists from Orissa, agents of evangelization in the Year of Faith Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - To maintain and strengthen the role of lay catechists as agents of evangelization: with this goal the Bishops of the state of Orissa have organized, on the occasion of the Year of Faith, a c ...
• 16 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: the "bribes for the revolution" of the anti-Assad militias Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "The militias of the Free Syrian Army and jahidist groups make all vehicles coming from the areas of Damascus and Aleppo carrying goods pay heavy tolls. They say that the money is used to buy w ...
• 15 May 2013
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Human rights at risk in view of the elections Malabo (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the administrative and municipal elections have just begun and will be held in the country on 26 May. The population of Equatorial Guinea still has no fundamental freedoms as wel ...
• 15 May 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Serious human rights abuses and religious freedom Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the positive signs of change and openness, "there continues to be serious abuses of human rights and religious freedom" in Myanmar: So says a new report prepared by the NGO Christian ...
• 15 May 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Truce or peace process, but the population still suffers violence, denounce the Bishops San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The truce between the gangs in the Country, established on March 9, 2012 (see Fides 28/03/2012) "has not produced the benefits that the honest and hard-working population was expecting." Th ...
• 15 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Converted to Christ from Hinduism: two families persecuted in Orissa Dhenkanal (Agenzia Fides) - Persecuted because converted. Mohan Soren of the village of Dengabahali and Rabi Narayan Marandi, from the village of Bhalu Tanggaro, both in the district of Dhenkanal in the state of Orissa, ...
• 15 May 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Maronite Patriarch Rai: "Venezuela is in good hands" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that Venezuela is in good hands." This is how the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Bechara Boutros Rai expressed himself after the meeting which took place yesterday, Tues ...
• 15 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "I am skeptical about the imposition of a State of emergency," said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know if this measure will lead to a reduction in criminal activities and achieve greater security," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and Presid ...
• 15 May 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Damage to the church and bishop wounded in the attack in Quetta Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Severe damage to the church, the school and the bishop’s house, who was slightly wounded: the suicide bombing that after the elections in Pakistan, hit the police station in Quetta, capital of ...
• 15 May 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chadian troops entered in Darfur, accusing a rebel movement Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the main rebel groups in Darfur (western Sudan) has accused Chad of having sent troops across the border and warned Chadian President Idriss Deby ...
• 15 May 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - A silent march of Christians to pray for the release of the kidnapped Syrian bishops Amman (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, May 21 Christians in Amman will start off a silent march with candles to demand the release of the two bishops of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (Syrian Orthodox) and Boulos a ...
• 14 May 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Hanging the criminals?": Intense debate on capital punishment Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the death penalty in Papua New Guinea is in full swing, at all levels: institutions, civil society, churches, the media, universities. Some sectors of society ask for a refere ...
• 14 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Allegations of "forced conversions": Hindu extremists against Christians in Kerala Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - The Hindu radicals also commit violence against Christians in the state of Kerala, in South India. In Kerala Christians make up 20% of the population and are a part of society very much appreciate ...
• 14 May 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop of Seoul to Buddhists: "Let us together become a sign of peace and sharing" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - While the Korean peninsula is still troubled by tensions and threats of war, religions are called to "give together a sign of peace and reconciliation" and to be "a sign of sharing and mercy in so ...
• 14 May 2013
  VATICAN - "There is need to give renewal to the missionary animation of the Churches of ancient tradition," says the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies National Directors Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I have been given a difficult but fascinating task because it urges me and you to keep eyes and heart open on vast horizons of the Missio ad Gentes". With these words the President of the ...