News

• 24 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Members of the South Sudan parliament call for immediate measures after the recent massacres in Jonglei State Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the south Sudan parliament have agreed on a series of resolutions which call for the urgent deployment of military forces and police in the State of Jonglei, reconciliation process and ...
• 24 August 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Pontifical Mission Societies respond to the call to welcome and support unaccompanied refugee children Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Several Australian non-profit organizations have renewed their appeal in favour of refugee children in the country pending the court decision on their future destiny. According to the information ...
• 24 August 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - Church and NGOs: "No to anti-conversion laws, we need to protect religious freedom" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – The necessity to protect religious freedom in Nepal and say "no" to measures such as prohibiting conversion from one religion to another is urgent, enclosed in the new Penal Code which will ...
• 24 August 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - "For a peaceful Day," Mgr. Ezzati’s appeal to the government and social parties before the general strike Santiago (Fides Service) - "For a peaceful Day and respect for people". Is the title of a declaration by the President of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Archbishop of Santiago o ...
• 24 August 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Birth of a Center for Muslim-Christian dialogue in the great mosque in Manila Manila (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of the fruits of extensive work on dialogue, carried out by Christians and Muslims, motivated by good will: a Muslim-Christian Center near the Great Mosque of Quiapo in Manila was born ...
• 23 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - "Justice, reconciliation, religious freedom for Christians in Orissa", says Archbishop Barwa Cuttak-Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Orissa can be built on the foundations of reconciliation and justice": says His Exc.Mgr. John Barwa SVD in an interview to Fides, Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, on the ...
• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/YEMEN-Violence and malnourished children: "the next Somalia is here" Aden (Agenzia Fides) - Alarm for the plight of children in Yemen. The continuous and incessant conflicts in various parts of Yemen - which has recently caused the displacement of thousands of people to the governorate of ...
• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Heavy fighting in Tripoli. The Franciscan monks barricaded in the convent Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently there are 3 Franciscan friars barricaded in the convent in Tripoli. No one dares to walk in the street because people are shot on sight, even if it is not clear who shoots who. Of cou ...
• 23 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - “Profiling” Christians and churches: a wave of violence is feared on behalf of Hindu extremist groups Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Just as Orissa is preparing to celebrate the anniversary of anti-Christian massacres of 2008 (see Fides 22 and 23/08/2011), in another Indian state, Karnataka, the community of the faithful ...
• 23 August 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The crisis of vocations empties seminaries and convents but the Church in the country promotes the so called "Feria Vocacional" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the whole of Spain, in 2010, only 162 priests were ordained and the average age of religious men in the country is 70. The vocation crisis is emptying seminaries and convents, and causes much ...
• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Two religious women seriously injured in an assault due to street gangs were transported to Germany for treatment Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 20, Catholic Relief Services in Bujumbura organized the emergency evacuation of two nuns belonging to the Congregation Bene-Umukama. The nuns, in serious condition, were transported ...
• 22 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Fighting still continues", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Fighting and gun firing still continue. It is a disaster", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides, who have requested anonymity for security reasons. "We do not know how the situation is evol ...
• 22 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Salvation and liberty for Farah Hatim": NGOs appeal to UN Geneva (Fides Service) - Farah Hatim’s case, the Catholic girl kidnapped, forced into marriage and converted to Islam in Rahim Yar Khan (in Punjab) is not closed: some non-governmental Organizations in Pakistan and ou ...
• 22 August 2011
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Evangelization through mass-media: the initiative of young people in Singapore after World Youth Day Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of World Youth Day as a source for renewing the mission: this is the intent of young people from Singapore, at the conclusion of the memorable World Youth Day in Madrid. The 200 ...
• 22 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Stop to the construction of churches in Orissa: religious freedom violated and Christians discriminated Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - As we approach the third anniversary of the massacres in Orissa (August 24 is Memorial Day), the local Christian community continues to face harassment and violence of all kinds, on a politi ...