News

• 17 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Priest stabbed to death on the doorstep Seville (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Carlos Martinez Perez, 75, died yesterday afternoon, July 16, victim of a brutal assault on the door of his home after celebrating the Eucharist in the church of San Leandro convent, where h ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - More violence in the M'Zab valley. Bishop Rault: repression alone cannot help but spread violence Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - The M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria, continues to be the scene of sectarian violence on ethnic-religious basis, that the Algerian security apparatuses are not able to stop. The clashes have cr ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We must start again from scratch", says the Bishop Emeritus of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 July, South Sudan celebrated its fourth year of independence. Unfortunately the anniversary is marred by ethnic conflict, due to the clashes of government forces of President Kiir, an ethnic D ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - "Clashes within military forces with arbitrary arrests and torture", 'Justice and Peace' denounces Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - Mass protest in Lesotho against human rights abuses by the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili. Earlier this week, the capital Maseru was a "dead city" with offices and shops closed a ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New assaults of the ADF/MDI in the territory of Beni: fires, looting, pillaging Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven people were killed in the assault on July 15 in three villages in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on behalf of ADF-NALU, a group of Ugandan or ...
• 17 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Antiba confirms the kidnapping of Father Antoine Boutros and his collaborator Khabab (Agenzia Fides) - "I can confirm that Father Antoine Boutros and his collaborator Said Al-Abdun, who have been missing since last Sunday, were actually stopped and seized by one of the several armed rebel groups t ...
• 17 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Sexual abuse on children have repercussions in adulthood Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of sexual abuse and violence against children continues to be one of the main problems of the Country. In 2014, NGO Doctors Without Borders recorded a total of 1,715 cases of ...
• 16 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan philosophical Seminary in Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 March 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Godwin Michael Viegas, SVD (Society of the Divine Word) as Recto ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Expansion of a water system to provide water to about 22,000 people Cyeza (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Cyeza there is water! We are talking about a village that is located in the central part of the Country and now sees the realization, with the contribution of the non-profit organization M ...
• 16 July 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nearly two million Central American children are undernourished Managua (Agenzia Fides) - In Central America there are more than 2 million children under five years of age who suffer from anemia and more than 1 million and 900,000 who suffer from malnutrition. This is what was highli ...
• 16 July 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Priest murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate mass Montería (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish priest Luis Alfonso León Pereira, for 48 years at the service of the Colombian Church, was brutally murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy. The ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Doubts of the Burundian opposition regarding the mediation of Museveni Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The Burundian opposition does not have confidence in the mediator chosen by the East African Community, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, to try to unravel the political crisis in our ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "If Boko Haram succeed in cutting us off from the other part of Nigeria, Maiduguri is doomed" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The rate of the Boko Haram attacks in the past few weeks have become worrisome and dangerous. This remains the only route linking Maiduguri city with the other parts of the world. One can only im ...
• 16 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Melkite priest in the Syrian province of al-Suwayda missing. A kidnapping is feared Shahba (Agenzia Fides) - Since last Sunday no one is able to get in contact with Greek-Melkite priest Antoine Boutros and with Al-Said Abdun, who was driving him from the city of Shahba to Sama Hinadat, where father Anto ...
• 15 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign of the diocese of San Pedro Sula: "An honest man is not corrupt" San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "In this context of outrage over corruption there is the request to denounce it, so that everything is out in the open: the causes, those responsible and the measures that should be taken ...