News

• 1 August 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Confirmed for today the "March of Hope" to ask for peace in Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The "March of hope", organized by the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of efforts to oppose the so-called "balkanization" of the Country, whose territorial integrity is ...
• 1 August 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - We need more attention concerning the education and nutrition of the Chepang indigenous children Shaktikhor (Agenzia Fides) - The Chepang population, one of the most disadvantaged and marginalized indigenous groups of Nepal, is fighting for the education of their children. Those who manage to send them to school, ev ...
• 1 August 2012
  ASIA/KOREA - Hundreds of deaths, thousands injured, houses and roads destroyed by the typhoon Khanun Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Torrential rains caused by the summer Typhoon Khanun, which recently hit North Korea, has so far caused hundreds of deaths and injuries, besides leaving thousands of people homeless. According to ...
• 1 August 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Precarious security in Benghazi among attacks, kidnappings and assaults in prisons Tripoli (Agenzia Fides)-Bombs, kidnappings and assaults in prisons: security in Benghazi, the capital of Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) still seems precarious after about 9 months since the end of the civil war and the overth ...
• 1 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - Street violence increases, denunciation of the Catholic Church Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At least 212 people were killed by gunfire in Haiti between April and June due to the escalation of urban violence that has hit the Country recently. This is what is reported in a stateme ...
• 31 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christian communities in Aleppo establish a Humanitarian Assistance Committee Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As fighting continues in Aleppo between government forces and the insurgents, the Christian communities of the Syrian city have decided to set up a steering committee to provide humanitarian as ...
• 31 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Peace Agreement in Qalamoun based on the line drawn by opponents in Rome Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - New success of the "Mussalaha" (Reconciliation) initiative, which is working to prove that there is a "third way" possible, alternative to war and weapons, that of civil society. According to ...
• 31 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Discrimination against the Mapuche people continues, also victims among children Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous Mapuche peoples of the Chilean region of Araucania, 680 kilometers south of Santiago, continues to suffer acts of racism and repression after being forced to leave their land of ...
• 31 July 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Bombing continues in the Blue Nile Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese "Antonov" (transport planes converted into bombers) have dropped 37 bombs on villages and civilians in the State of The Blue Nile. This is what the Sudan Catholic Radio Network re ...
• 30 July 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A mysterious disease continues to claim victims among the children in the north of the country Kitgum (Agenzia Fides) - A mysterious form of epilepsy that affects children in particular, continues to spread in Uganda. So far 300 have been killed in the north of the country and in some areas of southern Sudan. The ...
• 30 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "The Pope's appeal for peace has been widely reported in Syria," says the Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo for the Greek-Catholics Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy and thank the Holy Father for the appeal for peace in Syria launched during yesterday's Angelus" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Clément Jeanbart, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ale ...
• 30 July 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Alarm and concern about an uncontrollable cholera epidemic Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, is now the center of a cholera epidemic, after the first confirmed case was found in the north of the country in February. On 18 July, the first reported case ...
• 30 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Juan Diego, he who facilitated the fruitful meeting of two worlds, 10th anniversary of the canonization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 31, the Mexican Church will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the canonization of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, known in Catholic history for "the Guadalupan event," which took pl ...
• 30 July 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The President ad interim announces the creation of new bodies in order to overcome the crisis Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The President ad interim of Mali, Dioncounda Traoré, who has just returned to the Country after a long convalescence in France (see Fides 28/07/2012), consolidates his power, with the creation o ...
• 28 July 2012
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - There are no programs and facilities to reduce extreme poverty in which thousands of children on the island live San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Over 80% of children in Puerto Rico live in areas of extreme poverty, and the percentage of local teenagers who do not work or attend school is twice that of the United States. According to a r ...