News

• 23 July 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Some 16 months since the epidemic outbreak, Ebola still not under control Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – New cases of Ebola reported in Liberia and Guinea are spreading the fear that the virus could cross the border into Guinea-Bissau. A warning has been issued by the international chairman of Do ...
• 23 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi decrees that even church buildings and mosques shall soon pay for electricity AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi decrees that even church buildings and mosques shall soon pay for electricity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – All Egypt’s church buildings and mosques will soon have to pay electricity bill ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR – Blasphemy laws undermine the rule of law ASIA/MYANMAR – Blasphemy laws undermine the rule of law Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Anti blasphemy laws and legal actions are undermining the rule of law in Myanmar. The laws, stated in the country’s Criminal Code, ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 12, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. David Arias Guzman, of the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians ( ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Bring Christ to families": hundreds of young people on a mission to Goya Goya (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of young people from the north-east of Argentina will give life, from July 24 to 26, to a "mega mission" in the city of Goya, in the province of Corrientes, and the motto will be "Guided b ...
• 22 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Ebola: people want to go back to normality, but we must not let our guard down Pujehun (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian organization "Doctors with Africa-Cuamm" continues to be vigil with regards to the situation in Sierra Leone and the spread of the Ebola virus, even though the most critical pha ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case before the Supreme Court: sentence suspended and review of the case Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sentence suspended and review of the case: these are the provisions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan after the first judgment of the appeal process, in the third and final level of jurisdiction r ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND - Trafficking of women and child prostitution continue Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Trafficking of women, the majority from neighboring Countries such as Burma, Cambodia or Laos, continue to crowd the Thai brothels where these poor victims, often minors, are kept as slaves. In ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The government orders the transfer of the military of the Nineveh Plain to Baghdad; Christian politicians protest Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi central government has ordered to transfer to Baghdad 4 thousand soldiers and police who previously worked in the north provinces of Iraq - including the province of Nineveh – and th ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Dominican Channan: "Dialogue with Islam to change the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians in Pakistan are suffering because of the abuse of the blasphemy law. Also, when a Christian is accused, the entire community suffers serious consequences": says to Fides Dominican Fat ...
• 22 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Truth, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation: the pillars of peace promoted by the Church Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "We recognize in young people a fundamental reality: they are the way of hope to promote a new concept of the culture of love and peace". This was stated by the Archbishop of Acapulco, His Exc. ...
• 22 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A law is being requested against conversions of Christian minors without parental consent Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Mikel Munir, founder and leader of the political party of liberal character al-Haya, addressed a public appeal to Egyptian authorities to ensure that the personal status law under review, s ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The water crisis threatens millions of people Rio De Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America has 30% of global water resources, however, because of mismanagement in the distribution or climate change, that already pose a serious threat to agriculture in the entire C ...
• 21 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian brothers arrested on charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian brothers were arrested on charges of blasphemy after one of them was accused of having published offensive material on his website. As Fides learns, already in 2012 an official comp ...
• 21 July 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The body of a Franciscan who died a few days has been found Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - The body of the Franciscan priest Alex Pinto was found yesterday afternoon, July 20, along the road linking Ciudad Bolivar to Puerto Ordaz by some confreres and police who were patrolling ...