News

• 18 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Civilians trapped in Homs are likely to die of hunger Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Save us, we are hungry": is the appeal launched by the families of Homs, seeking the intervention of humanitarian organizations. The situation for about 800 civilians (half Muslim Sunni, half ...
• 18 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Clashes between police and farmers: 17 victims, the Bishops call for an end to violence and to respect laws Curuguaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Paraguay express their deep regret at the deaths of police officers and farmers which occured on 15 June, during a procedeure of eviction in Curuguaty, and express their solida ...
• 18 June 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Conflict in Syria and appointment of the Bishop of Homs in the Synod of the Greek Melkite Church Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The conflict in Syria, the plight of the approximately 300 thousand greek-Melkite Catholic faithful in Syria, the appointment of the new Greek-Melkite Bishop of Homs: are among the topics on the ...
• 18 June 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum authorities have occupied 3 Catholic schools and tried to confiscate a church where the faithful staged a sit-in Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Authorities in Khartoum have occupied three Catholic schools and tried to confiscate a church. This is what Catholic Radio Network (CRN) reported, which cites sources of the Sudanese Church. Ac ...
• 15 June 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph open the doors of their convent, inviting to "open your heart to welcome God's Love" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Open your heart to welcome God's Love" was the theme of the second day "open doors" sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Beijing. Given last year’s gre ...
• 15 June 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Early Marriages: Every year thousands of girls leave school to marry Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in Nepal, thousands of girls drop out of school to marry. According to data of the Ministry of Education of Nepal, over 34% of new marriages in the Himalayan region are brides aged ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "The Church before the mega mining projects" forum on an increasingly complex reality Zamora (Agenzia Fides) -The forum "The Church before the mega mining projects", organized by the Social Pastoral in the south of the country, including the jurisdictions of Zamora Chinchipe Azuay, Azogues, Oro and Loja, ...
• 15 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Church occupied by militias: the Christians are asking for the respect of Holy Places Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek-Catholic church of St. Elias in Qusayr, near the town of Homs, has been occupied by a group of gunmen of the Syrian opposition, that have established their base. As reported to Fides by ...
• 15 June 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The dissolution of Parliament marks the breaking point between the military and the Islamist forces Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the June 16 presidential runoff, the Egyptian Constitutional Court ruling that declared unconstitutional all the articles of the electoral law with which the People's Assembly (the l ...
• 15 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the civilians in peril of their life in Homs: "Let us go!" Homs (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us go, in God's name!" Is a desperate appeal by Christian families and Sunni Muslims trapped in the old town of Homs. We are talking about 800 civilians, including women, elderly, youth, child ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - A project of "Shared Houses" for people living on the streets Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - In Chile, 12,255 people live on the streets, among them 2,003 are adults and 725 children. 77% of them work as street vendors and parking attendants or do the cleaning in factories. Th ...
• 15 June 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The rebels sabotage a pipeline: for the UN this "is a criminal act of intolerable war" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A criminal act of intolerable war." Thus, the spokesman MONUSCO (United Nations Mission in Congo) has defined the sabotage of water pipes serving 5 villages in the Rutshuru area, in North Kivu ...
• 15 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Third Missionary Congress is approaching: The Missio ad Gentes is the primary mission of the Church Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – In less than a month the Third National Missionary Congress of Brazil will begin, the event is strongly felt in the community. The Congress will be held in Palmas (Brazil), from July 12 to 15 ...
• 14 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Amnesty International: "The Syrian army guilty of crimes against humanity" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detentions and indiscriminate destruction of homes: are the actions carried out by the armed forces and "shabiha" government militias in Syria, that consti ...
• 14 June 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope's general audience: "In prayer we open our hearts to the Lord so that He comes to dwell in our weakness, turning it into force for the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - St. Paul’s attitude makes us understand that "all the difficulties we meet in following Christ and bearing witness to His Gospel can be overcome by opening ourselves trustingly to the act ...