News

• 20 September 2012
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Serious and unjustifiable offences. No to provocation and violence " says the Church in Tunisia Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Some serious and unjustifiable offences hit in recent days the sensitivity of many Muslim believers in Tunisia and around the world," is what is said in a statement sent to Fides Agency, signed b ...
• 20 September 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Dignity and rights of indigenous peoples must be protected from violence" Holy Father’s Letter Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep love for all and in tune with the social doctrine of the Church, I invite you to listen to the voice of our brothers and sisters without prejudice, to favour true knowledge of their hi ...
• 20 September 2012
  AMERICA - Baobab is operational , a network that connects all members of Caritas in the world Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, has launched a new internal platform on the web called "Caritas Baobab", through which Caritas members from around th ...
• 20 September 2012
  EUROPA - European "Justice and Peace" Commissions: beware of stereotypes regarding the Arab Spring Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab Spring is a "complex phenomenon" that must be analyzed and understood outside trivializing stereotypes. And Europeans should "respect the right of other nations to define democracy in acc ...
• 19 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The continental Major Seminaries welcome 80 new seminarians and 213 religious women engaged in formation courses Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Nine Chinese continental Major Seminaries opened the new school year in the month of September, as every year, except that of the Diocese of Shang Hai, the Seminary of She Shan. According ...
• 19 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protests against the blasphemous film: religious leaders demand respect, harmony and peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The protests against the blasphemous film about Muhammad "The Innocence of Muslims" inflame Pakistan: in all provinces there are continuous demonstrations, while religious leaders try to quell th ...
• 19 September 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - About a quarter of the population is extremely poor Katmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Nepal is working on a program to fight poverty in the country, thanks to which will identify the segment of the population most in need and therefore offer food assistance, he ...
• 19 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "Together against human trafficking, modern slavery" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A joint effort of all the ecclesial communities and institutions to combat human trafficking and modern slavery is urgently needed. This is what the Bishops of the Philippines ask in a message se ...
• 19 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Agreement reached for the Marikana mine, but more unrest in other mines is feared: Bishop Dowling’s opinion Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to wait and see what the workers’ reaction will be from other mines in the area to understand if the agreement reached yesterday will bring peace," said to Fides Agency His Exc. ...
• 19 September 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Areas of instability in the DRC are multiplying Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – It is not just the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo which for months has been devastated by the guerrilla group M23 to raise concerns about the stability of the large Afr ...
• 19 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Warning of a suspected outbreak of cholera that has already made many victims Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A suspected outbreak of cholera has already killed several people in the southern Somali village of Hoosingo, Badade district in Lower Juba region. The alert launched by the government and hea ...
• 19 September 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops call on the government for "a better quality of democracy" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay, after meeting yesterday, 18 September, to assess the situation of the country in all its aspects, expressed in writing concerns and wishes that they delivered, also yes ...
• 19 September 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Meeting of the Pastoral Care of indigenous peoples: the Pope calls for "special attention in the process of evangelization" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The National Meeting of the priests, religious and indigenous catechists of Colombia is in progress, from 18 to 20 September, to reflect on the issues that should be at the center of the Church's ...
• 18 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The exploitation of justice destroys the democratic basis of our life together," says the Bishops' document "Charity and Truth" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference published yesterday, September 17, the statement "Caridad y Verdad", as the conclusion of the meeting of the Permanent Episcopal Council of Bolivian Bishops. Thi ...
• 18 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Film on Mohammed: firing at the Cathedral, a Christian injured in Hyderabad Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Tension and fear for Christians in Hyderabad, a city in the province of Sindh in southern Pakistan. Angry protest marches for the blasphemous film about Mohammed, "The innocence of Muslims," h ...