News Analysis

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  20 June 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Pakistan: the Commission for minorities and respect for human rights Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Paris principles adopted in 1993 by the UN General Assembly stated that if any government institution is part of the Commission, it should be on an advisory position and not in the decision- ...
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  30 May 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Africa: Burkina Faso shaken by jihadist conflicts Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - In the north-east of Burkina Faso, since the beginning of the year, there have been at least five attacks against Christian communities. Over 2000 schools have been closed. Since 2012, there ...
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  30 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - A community thriving on hope: the testimony of the Church in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in South Sudan consists of an archdiocese and six suffragan dioceses most of whom have celebrated their first centenary of Christian Faith. Like the rest of the church in Africa, the qu ...
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  29 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Zimbabwe, Churches in the frontline for a national agreement Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Churches, historically active and recognized presence in Zimbabwe, have decided to structure some proposals to help the country get out of the tunnel of difficulty and suffering in whic ...
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  9 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Easter in Africa, between Covid-19 and radio liturgies Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is not the building, but is communion and community: the baptized in the various African countries do not lose their sense of faith in the difficulties of "broadcast Masses", due to t ...
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  4 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Has conronavirus caught Christian believers unprepared? "Coronavirus has caught Christians in the various continents unprepared, distracted by concerns and conflicts of diverse nature, and blinded by proposals of half-truths, warped truths and ‘instrumentalized truths’. W ...
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  28 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The "digital Church" in Asia amid coronavirus crisis Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more nations than the World Wars. The outbreak has impacted every aspect of life—family, social, business, governance, education, econom ...
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  21 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Central Africa: what lies behind interreligious violence Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The war continues in the Central African Republic. It is not a real civil conflict nor a classic clash among armies. It is widespread violence that undermines the stability of the Country and sev ...
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  7 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Africa, the soft power of mothers Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - She saw hope in them. And she did not let it fall on deaf ears. Hauwa Ibrahim, teacher and lawyer, founder of "Mothers without borders", came into contact with the mothers of some young terrorists ...
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  2 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Shahbaz Bhatti, God's gift for Pakistan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Pakistani Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti, carried out by terrorists on March 2, 2011, we publish the afterword to the book by Paolo Affa ...
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  22 February 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - South Sudan, peace is near Peace is at hand. South Sudan is experiencing a crucial phase in its history: the path to end the civil conflict that has been going on for six years is open. The president, Salva Kiir, has announced an agreement with re ...
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  30 November 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Drugs and drug addiction in Latin America: models of ecclesial community intervention Latin America is the land of cocaine and marihuana. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are the world's largest producers of cocaine, while the major marihuana crops are in Mexico and Paraguay (in addition to Peru and Bolivia). F ...
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  23 October 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Missionaries in Taiwan: "Like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants" In Taiwan, more than the "mission of the Church", it is better to refer to it as "Church of the mission". In fact, in a place that is so "ignorant" to Christ, it is nearly impossible to consider the mission as something ...
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  7 September 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Franciscans among the nomads: the mission of the Church in Central Asia "The very high mountains of the Tian Shan range, once also called the 'Alessandro mountains', which mark the present border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, today bear witness to the greatness of the Itinerarium travel ...
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  10 August 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Latin America at the forefront in the "laboratory" of mission and urban pastoral care for large cities Starting from the challenges that confront the action of the Church in the cities in this "change of epoch", Latin America is at the forefront in theological-pastoral reflection and in the proposals for urban pastoral ca ...