News

• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA - A third of Africans end up in poverty because of precarious health care services Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Health care, as well as being a right of every man is also the cornerstone of sustainable development and global security. The NGO for development Anesvad recently launched the alarm about the fa ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the Marists of Aleppo to the Pope: if you want Christians to remain, the war must be stopped Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Since the start of the Syrian conflict appeals not leave the country and humanitarian aid provided by the institutions related to the church "have not prevented half of the Christians of Aleppo t ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The President denies the motion for dismissal, the Bishops denounce "the culture of corruption" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Malagasy President Hery Rajaonarimampianina said he will not resign and challenged the dismissal of the motion passed by Parliament (see Fides 27/05/2015). In a televised message to the nat ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Coptic boys released, falsely accused of an "insulting" video towards Islam Minya (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Minya upheld the appeal filed by the defense of the four teenagers who were in detention for more than 40 days on charges of insulting Islam. The incident happened in a school in the vi ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Children do not go to school in order to beg in the street Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of school-age boys and girls live and work in the street, earning a few cents a day to help their poor families. Among the initiatives to help these children, ...
• 27 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Changes to the blasphemy law: the government's bill, Christians approve Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan is moving to stop the abuse of the blasphemy law: the executive has in fact developed a bill that will be presented and discussed in Parliament for approval. "It is a ...
• 27 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Tornado among the strongest recorded in the country affects Ciudad Acuña: 14 deaths and massive damage Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña on May 25 has killed 13 people, 150 have been injured, 750 houses damaged and 4,000 without electricity. The phenomenon occurred around 6 am in the western pa ...
• 27 May 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Protest demonstration of Christian schools against discriminatory policies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools of Israel staged an unprecedented demonstration to denounce the discriminatory policies. Nearly 700 among teachers, parents and children, and religious gathered at 11 am on W ...
• 27 May 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "We are going back to chaos," says a missionary after the vote to remove the President Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is discouraged because there is a feeling of returning to the chaos that characterized the political life of the island for years", says to Fides Fr. Luca Trengia, Director ...
• 27 May 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops’ refelection: "Thinking Brazil", social inequalities in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The second volume of "Thinking Brazil" has been published. The text, approved on the occasion of the general Assembly of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) held in April in Apa ...
• 27 May 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian Churches: "Stop the violence, instigated by leaders, most of whom call themselves Christians" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "People are being killed, raped and tortured. (...). Children are being recruited into armed groups and looting is endemic", denounces the South Sudan Council of Churches, the body that brings toge ...
• 27 May 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assyrian hostages: jihadists release two women Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Two elderly women in the group of more than 230 Assyrian Christians taken hostage in February by the State Islamic jihadists in the Syrian north-western region of Jazira, have been released and ...
• 27 May 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Radio and TV to announce the Gospel in the Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez Nuflo de Chavez (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of San Julian of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez is working on a radio-television center of the parish. The community of 160 thousand people is looking forward to t ...
• 26 May 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Stop deaths! An agreement has to be reached as soon as possible", asks Cardinal Salazar Gómez Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, speaking to the local press reiterated that war must end and an agreement between the government and the FARC has to be reached as soon a ...
• 26 May 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - A month ago the first earthquake in Nepal, and now the most current emergency is the arrival of the monsoon rains Katmandhu (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the earthquake struck Nepal, the most current emergency is the arrival of the monsoon rains expected in a few weeks. Once the rains begin, it will be harder to reach remote are ...