News

• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Night shooting in the capital, human rights activist wounded Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“There was shooting throughout the night in Bujumbura and it continued in certain districts until 9am. It is not yet known if anyone was injured or killed” Fides learned from local sources i ...
• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA – Bishops launch the African Year of Reconciliation Accra (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa launched an African Year of Reconciliation during celebrations for the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Symposium of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa ...
• 4 August 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLICA - “Haiti refuses to help its own emigrants to regularise their status ” Dominican Republic intellectuals claim Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) –Tension grows among the Haitians resident in the Dominican Republic because the Haiti government refuses entrance to its own citizens residing illegally in the neighbour coun ...
• 3 August 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Abortion is never therapeutic”: local Catholic Church attacks Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) – “We urge all authorities to safeguard every human person, in particular the weakest and most vulnerable, to love and respect them as a mother loves her child.”. This was said in ...
• 3 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - General Nshimirimana killed: fighting within the government or rebel ambush? Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“At the moment the situation in Bujumbura is quiet ” local sources in the capital of Burundi, told Fides the day after the killing of general Adolphe Nshimirimana, considered second in comma ...
• 3 August 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Floods and monsoon rains continue to strike the country causing major damage to people and structures Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Heavy flooding for several weeks in Pakistan has left thousands homeless and many dead. The weather is particularly bad in the northern mountainous regions where many villages are still isol ...
• 3 August 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Migrants: Bishops call for definitive solution Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The National Commission for Migrants of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Dominican Republic has called for a return to dialogue with Haiti in order to maintain existing neighbou ...
• 3 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Peace now” women march through the streets of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides)- Christians took to the streets of Juba, the capital of South Sudan demanding an immediate end to civil war which has continued for 19 months . The demonstrators, mainly women, carried placards wit ...
• 3 August 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Solidarity Prize: Spanish Bishops in favour of Las Patronas candidature Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops of Spain have decided to support the candidature of Las Patronas group of Veracruz (Mexico), for the 2015 Princess of the Asturias solidarity Award. The women in question, ...
• 1 August 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - No negotiating with gangs in the plan for National Security San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – The National Security Council in San Salvador decided on 30 July, to exclude any negotiation with gangs and to go forward to implement the plan based on the strategy El Salvador Sicuro, F ...
• 1 August 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Papal altar to serve as parish church Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – The infrastructure used for the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis during his recent pastoral visit to Guayaquil, in Ecuador, will soon serve as a new parish church centre for two districts of ...
• 1 August 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Post earthquake aggravates situation of early marriages: 2 out of every 5 girls married before the age of 18 Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) –Three months after the earthquake, NGO Plan Internacional, warns of the danger of an increase in the trafficking of early marriages. In Nepal it is known that two out of five girls are marrie ...
• 1 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – From Venezuela school material for South African children Bela Bela (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to an initiative organised by the embassy of Venezuela in South Africa, hundreds of children at a primary school in Heleketani, Limpopo province, will soon receive new didactic materi ...
• 31 July 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Yes to dialogue, but with respect for the law”, local Catholic Church on political dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – "Dialogue is considered the founding principal of democracy and nation". This was said on Tuesday 28 July by the secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Democratic Repu ...
• 31 July 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of Protest against human trafficking: child soldiers still used by FARC Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – "All this must be denounced since it is one part of the things we have to do, the other part is to fight against the problem, because there exists a sort of masked protection of these crimes, ...