News
1 September 2016
AFRICA/GABON - Clashes after the announcement of the victory of outgoing President Ali Bongo Ondimba
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people were shot dead by security forces and many more wounded after crowds tried to storm the offices of the electoral commission in Libreville shortly after authorities announc ...
1 September 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let us take care of the earth, let us take care of life"
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us take care of the earth, let us take care of life" is the theme of the annual campaign sponsored by Catholic Action Argentina (ACA), which starts today, September 1, 2016, second Wor ...
1 September 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Expropriation of land ordered by the government are likely to stir up sectarian conflicts
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The possible confiscation of collectively owned land from the State near the Lebanese village of Aqoura (Jbeil district) is likely to stir up sectarian strife. The tension around the sensitive is ...
1 September 2016
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "No to censorship of the media, no to violence and hatred", say Christian leaders
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened and alarmed by the Government’s muzzling, harassing and persecution of the private media", said a joint statement of the main Christian denominations in Zambia, after th ...
1 September 2016
ASIA/MONGOLIA - First Mass of the first Mongolian priest
Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt reflection on the cross and a moving story of his vocation: is what Fr. Joseph Enkh said during the celebration of his first Mass in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Ula ...
31 August 2016
AMERICA/ECUADOR - "With everyone's help, we will re-build the school": after the earthquake students in bamboo classrooms
Playa Prieta (Agenzia Fides) - "We want our school, we do not want to go and study in another school, or stop studying, or skip a year": these are the students' demands of the school run by the Siervas del Hogar de la Ma ...
31 August 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa: a life spent taking care of others
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "Mother Teresa focused her energy on others, not on herself" and this was one of her secrets and her holiness: to take care and focus on one’s neighbor, in the awareness of the preciousness of ...
31 August 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - "Long live the Cross and the Crescent": the Egyptian Parliament approves the law on the construction of churches
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egypt’s parliament approved on Tuesday, August 30, a landmark law on the construction of churches, still the subject of harsh criticism from observers and groups belonging to the Egyptian Chri ...
31 August 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The religious call to fight drug trafficking without summary justice
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two months we have seen a steady increase in the number of extrajudicial executions, which has now reached about a thousand, and the count continues. Most of these deaths are related ...
31 August 2016
ASIA/CHINA - Encounter with the Lord in mercy and solidarity with the Italian earthquake victims
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Lord in mercy and charity; the prayer for the Italian earthquake victims, for children and young people who return to school, for evangelization and for those who h ...
31 August 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In Yei, hundreds of young people devastated by the violence and say "no to tribalism"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A no to tribalism and violence comes from Yei, the city of Equatoria, South Sudan, which was hit by a wave of murders and massacres attributed to mixed military-civilian armed groups that target su ...
31 August 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Demonstration on 1 September: for the Bishops it is a right to be respected
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On September 1 a demonstration has been announced with a march and other political activities, in order to promote a collection of signatures for the referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. ...
31 August 2016
AFRICA/GUINEA - The number of Guineans who seek to enter the US from Mexico increases
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The US border authorities have in recent months registered an increase of emigrants of the Republic of Guinea who try to enter through the land border with Mexico. The phenomenon is related to t ...
31 August 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Greece calls for Ankara to offer an apology for the "Greek-Pontic Genocide"
Athens (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek people "will continue their battle until Turkey recognizes the Pontic genocide and offers a sincere apology for the crimes committed by their ancestors". This is what in recent days the ...
30 August 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Scalabrinians: more effective responses to global mass migration
Jundial (Agenzia Fides) - Since yesterday until Saturday, September 3, forty Scalabrinian Missionaries (Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo) engaged in the reception of migrants and refugees in ...
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