News

• 22 March 2013
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - From the religions a contribution of values in the financial crisis Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) – To maintain an atmosphere of peace in the financial crisis: is what the Christian leaders of the island of Cyprus, part of the World Council of Churches ask, who expressed "support for dialogu ...
• 22 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Fighting between the army and rebels restart Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Hostilities between the forces of President François Bozizé and the rebels of the coalition Seleka have restarted. The rebels of Seleka are already 80 km from Bangui, according to what local ...
• 21 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "I am the first on the rebels’ list of people to be hit" denounces the Bishop of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sent to Fides Agency the following testimony on the conquest of the Central African city on behalf of a faction of the rebel coalition Selek ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "March for Peace", a traditional Via Crucis to stop the violence in the country Comayagua (Agenzia Fides) – On 22 March the "Caminata por la Paz" (Peace March) will start from the parish of St. Gaspar Taulabé (Comayagua), the procession of thousands of faithful who come from all over Honduras. " ...
• 21 March 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "We feel close to the Pope, humble person, who knows the life of the poor" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very close to the figure of Pope Francis: he is a humble person who knows the life and problems of the poor": is what the Catholic Rosaline Costa, an activist of the NGO "Human Rights Hotl ...
• 21 March 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Bishops criticize the words of the leader of UNITA Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Inappropriate, defamatory and offensive" – this is how the Episcopal Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) qualifies the words of the President of UNITA (Total Union for the Independence o ...
• 21 March 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Emeritus Sabbah: the great people in the world visit us, but our situation does not change Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "All the great people in the world come to visit us. They arrive and depart, and our reality does not change. We are in the same situation." So says to Fides Agency Patriarch Emeritus of Jerus ...
• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We are coming to get your head": threats to the priest who accepts migrants Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) - "We are coming to get your head", with these words on behalf of strangers over the phone and then reported by a terrified immigrant used as an emissary, is how father Fray Tomás González was ...
• 21 March 2013
  EUROPE - "Compassion and righteousness in finance": financial advisers welcome the Pope London (Agenzia Fides) - "Society is crying out for compassion in finance", says a message of congratulations sent to Pope Francis from the "Association of Christian Financial Advisers" (ACFA), based in London. The Assoc ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - More than 3,000 children forced to work in caves to pay for college and help families Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children in Sierra Leone are forced to break rocks with a hammer to pay for their studies and to help their families make ends meet. It is the sad reality, quite usual in the count ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Monsignor Romero, 33 years after his death the cause of beatification advances San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The week to commemorate the 33 years of the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero continues. He was assassinated on March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass in the cha ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty in the country is three times higher than that of Chile and Uruguay Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report released by the research center Idesa Argentina, in Peru, poverty has been reduced from 49% to 28% of the population, in Chile from 21% to 11%, in Uruguay from 9 % to 8%. I ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Hopes and interrogatives after the surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, leader of a faction of the M23, who on March 18 surrendered to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is ...
• 20 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders defend Christians: the abuse of blasphemy is to be punished Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Punishing abuse and exploitation linked to the controversial blasphemy law is an urgent need for the respect of law and the rule of law in Pakistan: this was said by Muslim leaders who met in pas ...
• 20 March 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Commission "Justice and Peace" to Obama: respect for international law and fight illegal policies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Barack Obama’s visit in the Middle East - which began today, Wednesday, March 20 with the arrival in Israel - the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Assembly of Catholi ...