News
14 May 2016
AMERICA/PERU - The project on "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants" begins
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Commission of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference has launched the project "Prevention of human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in Peru: Strengthening of social n ...
14 May 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - Concern of the Church for the closure of refugee camps
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – There is great concern regarding the announcement of the Kenyan government to close the refugee camps
in Dadaab (considered the largest refugee camp in the world with over 320,000 people, mos ...
14 May 2016
ASIA/IRAN - A Protestant pastor arrested
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, of the Protestant community "Church of Iran", acquitted in 2012 of the charge of apostasy, was arrested yesterday, May 13, in Iran with his wife, Tina Pasandid ...
14 May 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Quevedo: "May president Duterte work for peace in Mindanao"
Davao (Agenzia Fides) – Need to address the issue regarding stability and reconciliation in Mindanao and immediately engage in defining the peace process with the Islamic community and the communist rebels: asks Cardin ...
14 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tense situation, electoral authorities delays for a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro's term
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Venezuela is heading toward a violent confrontation if those who have power do not leave" said His Exc. Mgr. Roberto Luckert Leon, Archbishop of Coro and President of the "Justice and Peace" Co ...
14 May 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Lagos: "Stop the attacks against farmers"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of Lagos, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari so that the government intervenes to put an end to the massacres committed by Fulani herdsmen in the so ...
13 May 2016
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 28, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul, of the archdiocesan clergy of ...
13 May 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extremists threaten Christians after a blasphemy case in Punjab
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a case of abuse of the blasphemy law, where the Christian community risks collective punishment. We are concerned, we call on the authorities to guarantee peace and hope there are no viole ...
13 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The crisis worsens, the first attempts to leave the country towards the Netherlands Antilles
Willemstad (Agenzia Fides) - Angel Ramirez, President of the Red Cross of Curacao, the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, which is situated in front of Venezuela, said that they are preparing to receive other Ve ...
13 May 2016
ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monk: replace churces with pagodas
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Buddhist monk Myaing Kyee Ngu Sayadaw invites his followers to destroy the country's churches and replace them with Buddhist temples. This is the alarm launched by the Christian community in Myan ...
13 May 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops to Catholic journalists: "report the positive news of Africa"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is often times portrayed as a continent of gloom and doom and societal failures of ethnocentrisms, violent conflicts, corruption, epidemics like HIV/AIDs and Ebola" complained Fr. Chrisa ...
13 May 2016
AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "Yesterday Aysen, today Chiloé, tomorrow there will be other crises"
Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis in the Los Lagos region presents a national project which becomes more and more a discussion topic, because the development of this social system, essentially neoliberal, instead of p ...
13 May 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of an Assumptionist father: "President, intervene to stop the massacres in North Kivu"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "President, I ask you to take an interest in what is happening in Beni, in Kivu. Could you take into consideration a serious inquiry for a proper justice?". Is the appeal in a letter to the Pre ...
13 May 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian refugees are forced to sign a document to support the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A fair number of Christian Assyrians, Chaldean and Syrian displaced, who took refuge in the city of Dohuk after their villages were conquered by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), were f ...
13 May 2016
ASIA/JORDAN - "Garden of Mercy" inaugurated in Amman, humanitarian project for refugees
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A company dedicated to "sustainable" agriculture, with 600 olive trees planted on an area of 10 thousand square meters, which employs 15 workers, chosen among the Iraqi refugees but also among the ...
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