News
15 December 2016
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The UN denounces: "Alarming increase of human rights violations"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Since August 2016 we have noted an alarming increase in human rights violations", said a statement from the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) presenting a report on the situat ...
15 December 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops of Patagonia: "Christmas invites us to take the path of non-discrimination"
Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - In their message for Christmas, the Bishops of the Region of Patagonia-Comahue ask to reflect on the violence that the country lives. "Everything seems infested by violence. We know that violen ...
14 December 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Evangelical pastor arrested on charges of belonging to Gulen’s "terrorist" network
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelical pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, former head of the Evangelical Church of the Resurrection in Izmir (Smyrna Diriliş Kilisesi), was arrested last week on suspicion of being part of the Hi ...
14 December 2016
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - An award to a missionary for her contribution in the field of education
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - For her contributions to public education Sister Micaela Princiotto, a Dominican Missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be awarded the "Bronze Patujú" (flower symbol of Bolivia). The a ...
14 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - The Church: a new policy towards the Dalits
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - To build a truly inclusive community is an ethical imperative: motivated by this intent the Indian Bishops' Conference (CBCI) has launched a new policy of inclusion, support and development of ...
14 December 2016
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Ride to Reach Out: cycling through Cambodia to support children in need
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Fill your senses with the sights, sounds and smells of Cambodia, with its changing landscapes and colourful culture cycling along the dusty roads of the Mekong delta. And think if this would hel ...
14 December 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Archdiocese of La Plata does not sponsor Scouts who are losing core values
La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of La Plata has decided not to renew its sponsorship of the "Scouts of Argentina" because they "are conducting a process in which they are losing certain fundamental values, suc ...
14 December 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - "More controls and better road signs" ask the Bishops after 40 people died following the road accident in Naivasha
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be committed to saving lives and not to see an opportunity to make quick money through bribery and extortion". This is the appeal launched by the Bishops of Kenya to the officials responsible ...
14 December 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian governor stands trial: a test for democracy in Indonesia
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian governor of Jakarta shed tears yesterday, 13 December during the hearing in court, on the first day of the trial in which he is accused of blasphemy. The trial will continue with t ...
13 December 2016
VATICAN - Death of Mgr. Irigoyen, a life to spread the knowledge of the missions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Jesus Irigiyen Urtasun died in the early afternoon of Saturday, December 3, on the feast of St. Francis Xavier, Patron of the Missions, to whom he was particularly devoted. He had dedic ...
13 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Two priests ordained in Orissa, in the district of the anti-Christian massacres
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Kandhmal district in the Indian state of Orissa, which was the scene of the anti-Christian massacres of 2008, welcomed two new priests at the end of the Jubilee Year. As reported to Fides, m ...
13 December 2016
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Casa Alianza: 15,000 children live on the streets and in shopping malls
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In Honduras about 15 thousand boys and girls live on the streets, in shopping malls and on the streets of the main cities of the Country. This is what the NGO Casa Alianza denounces, which a ...
13 December 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: "our martyrs bind us to Heaven"
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our martyrs, and the act of martyrdom in itself, bind us to heaven, and make our hearts rise up to those who are already there, and from there they intercede for us".
This is how Coptic Orthodo ...
13 December 2016
AFRICA/MALAWI - The prison, from death trap to a place of hope, thanks to a missionary initiative
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Prison in Zomba, a death trap", is the headline in the Sunday Times on December 4, 2016. "For years this prison is part of the history of Malawi. Built in 1937 in what was a kind of refugee ca ...
13 December 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Casa Hogar Karike for poor and vulnerable children
Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Karike was opened five years ago thanks to the generosity of a lady who welcomed three poor and abandoned children in her house. Since then visitors have increased and the needs ...
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