News

• 30 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A thousand victims in five days due to heatwave Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Following the wave of scorching heat that is hitting Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan where there are 23 million people, 950 people have died in just five days. The morgues are not enough t ...
• 30 June 2015
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Cardinal Lacunza: "despite scandals and corruption, we have to believe in justice" Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "They are afraid", this is how Cardinal José Luis Lacunza described the reaction of people with regards to the cases of corruption in the Latin American country. The Cardinal, Bishop of the Dioc ...
• 30 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Condolences of the Council of Christian Churches for the assassination of Attorney General Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Churches in Egypt expressed the unanimous sympathy of all Christian communities in Egypt for the assassination of Attorney General Hisham Barakat, who on Monday, June 29 was the vic ...
• 27 June 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Church: "politics without corruption" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The national community has to solve major social problems that plague this country, relaunching dialogue in politics: it what the editorial of the weekly "Fides" of the capital of Honduras, ...
• 27 June 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Romero Romero is recognized as "Son Meritísimo of El Salvador" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, acknowledged Blessed Son Oscar Arnulfo Romero as Meritísimo of that country, for his work in defense of human rights and their pastoral work. The ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Debt relief for Nepal: the IMF says "no" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The "Jubilee Network" campaign which unites 75 organizations and 400 religious communities around the world, has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advocated for debt relief for Nepal ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian Violence in Kerala New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in India continue to face attacks by Hindu extremist groups. As reported to Fides by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), a new episode of anti-Christian violence took place o ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "New" jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Some leaflets containing threats to Christians in Jerusalem and signed by an unknown organization calling itself "Islamic state in Palestine" - with the clear intention of showing their affili ...
• 26 June 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Still demonstrations against President Correa Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – Tension in Ecuador continues due to the many demonstrations that have taken place in Guayaquil and Quito against President Rafael Correa. For a week the population and the opposition protest ...
• 26 June 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Pope will conclude the World Meeting of Social Movements La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - There are already 900 participants who have confirmed their presence at the World Meeting of Social Movements to be held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, from 7 to 9 July 2015. The note sent to Fides by a ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Presentation of the report on the incidents in Marikana, in 2012: "a horrible tragedy" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A judicial inquiry on the work of the police in the tragic events in the mine in Marikana and criticisms against the leadership of the Lomnin company, which manages the mine of platinum. Th ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Visas denied to missionary nuns: the Church of Islamabad files lawsuit Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know why we were denied the renewal of our visas. Our work is always the same, that of education, for the benefit of the youth in Pakistan, of all religions. But we cannot stay in a ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Opposition announces the boycott of elections Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in Burundi announced that it will boycott the elections which will begin on June 29, with the vote for the renewal of the municipalities and parliament. On July 15, the disputed ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA – Mass escape from Hassaké, attacked by the jihadists of Daesh. Bishop Audo: "the agenda" of the forces is not clear Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The last attack on the city of Hassake in the night between Wednesday 24 and Thursday, June 25 by militants of the jihadists of Daesh (the acronym used to define the Islamic State in Arabic) is ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA - Education is the driving force of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific Macao (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits of Asia will continue to have service education as a main focus of their activities and presence: is what emerged from a recent meeting of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) ...