News
1 February 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal to students: "Yes to demonstrations without interrupting the lessons"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal to all our students in the beginning of this academic year to return to lectures and to their academic programmes while continuing their legitimate campaign" say the South Africa ...
1 February 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "foreign bullies" or sectarian militias to protect Christians in the Nineveh Plain are not needed
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There is no need for foreign forces to protect villages and areas of the Nineveh Plain where sooner or later Christians who lived there until August 2014 will return, when those territories we ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The number of street children doubles
San Miguel de Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretariat for Childhood, Adolescence and the Family had to assist cases of sexual violence and child abuse, abandonment and neglect of relatives last year. Also in 2016, the ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consecrated life: "light for the world, promoter of peace and reconciliation"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Inspired by the theme "Let us be reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:20) indicated by the Colombian Episcopate, which places reconciliation as a priority commitment of the whole Church of Colombia for th ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - New impetus for Missionary Childhood and Adolescence with new communication technologies
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Five virtual meetings during 2017 for mutual enrichment of the national Directorates of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Bolivarian countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and V ...
31 January 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - A Muslim lawyer killed: "An attack on democratic transition"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation and outrage for the murder of Muslim lawyer U Ko Ni, adviser of the National League for Democracy (NLD): is what civil society organizations, associations and other Christian ...
31 January 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 also collects information on the visit of Fethullah Gulen in the Vatican
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 is also collecting information on the visit of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen Fethullah Gulen - indicated by the Turkish authorities as ...
31 January 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Civil society has been taken hostage by politics" denounces CEPADHO
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Congolese civil society has been taken hostage by politics" complains CEPADHO (Study Centre for the Promotion of peace, of democracy and human rights), a civil society organization in North Ki ...
31 January 2017
ASIA/SYRIA - Are US borders open only to Christians? "Who makes these differences feeds fanaticism" says Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We Christians of Syria and the Middle East do not like any speeches that make differences between us and Muslims when justice, peace and aid to those in need are at stake. Who makes these differ ...
30 January 2017
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Gokwe, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 January 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Gokwe, Zimbabwe, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Angel Floro Martínez, I.E.M.E. The Ho ...
30 January 2017
VATICAN - To fight leprosy but also the discrimination it engenders
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, January 29, 64th World Day of Leprosy, during the Angelus Pope Francis recalled the anniversary with these words: "Today we celebrate the World Day of Leprosy. This disease, al ...
30 January 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "Climate change affects the poor and women"
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "Women, the poor and the vulnerable are the first victims of climate change. We are administrators and we are not masters of creation. We have a moral obligation to protect and preserve it", said ...
30 January 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the selective reception of migrants based on religion announced by Trump is "a trap for Christians"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The option foreshadowed by US President Donald Trump to maintain a "fast track" open for Christian refugees to enter the US, while the doors are closed to citizens of seven countries with a Musl ...
30 January 2017
AMERICA/CHILE - Disarm hearts to eliminate violence in Mapuche lands
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The lands where the Mapuche indigenous people live in southern Chile are caught up in a spiral of violence (see Fides 11/08/2016; 17/10/2016; 29/12/2016; 25/01/2017). A presidential Commission, c ...
30 January 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - One more week to reach an agreement on the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister's designation, allocation of ministries among the different parties of the coalition, the role of CENCO (Congolese National Episcopal Conference) in the transition period. These ...
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