News

• 25 February 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More violence and protests: 6 dead in six days of demonstrations San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - Unasur (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) condems the violent death of Venezuelan student Klivert Roa, and reaffirms its willingness to find democratic and peaceful solutions regarding the ...
• 25 February 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New Amnesty Report: "Religious intolerance increases" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2014 intolerance and discrimination on religious and ethnic grounds increased in Pakistan, with the complicity of the authorities or lack of measures to combat it": says the new 2014-2015 ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Strong humanitarian concern for the announced offensive against Rwandan rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The announced Congolese army offensive against the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) rebel group will take place without the concurrence of the UN Mission in the Democratic ...
• 25 February 2015
  ASIA - Maimed because of the war, many disabled forgotten in Nepal and Sri Lanka Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - Decades of war have seen a proliferation of problems of all sorts in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Among these, people with disabilities are the most vulnerable and neglected in both Countries. The Minist ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of homeless children, 700 000 live on the streets of the capital Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the recent Childhood Festival, Majda Suleiman, spokeswoman of the Sudanese Homeless Child Association, told the local press that the streets of Khartoum is home to about 700 ...
• 25 February 2015
  EUROPE/CROATIA - The missionary activity in Europe and the world: European meeting of Directors of the PMS Zagreb (Agenzia Fides) - The European Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) will be held in Croatia, in Luznica, from 1 to 5 March, and will focus on several hot topics concerning the Ch ...
• 25 February 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christian villages attacked: more than 100 hostages in the hands of the jihadists; Archbishop Hindo denounces the "wretched" choices of the West Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 120 and 140 Assyrian Christians held hostage by jiahdists of the Islamic State who in the night between Sunday 22 and Monday, February 23 launched a large-scale attack against ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards a more "human" prison system Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Definitely something is changing in the prison system in Malawi" says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary, commenting on the President's speech to the 731 new prison guards at the end ...
• 25 February 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Release of kidnapped priest: the Church thanks the Prime Minister New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Delhi, His Exc. Mgr. Anil Couto, has publicly thanked the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his commitment in the release of the Indian Jesuit Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, wh ...
• 25 February 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mobilization for political Reform and transparent elections continues Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The "Coalition for Political and Democratic Reform for Transparent Elections", promotes today, Wednesday, February 25, in Brasilia, three important events for the mobilization in support of the ...
• 25 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian archaeological area risks demolition, Coptic monks lie down in front of bulldozers Fayyum (Agenzia Fides) - The project to build a road that should unite the city of Fayoum to an oasis area crossing the territories around the Coptic monastery of St. Macarius, threatens an archaeological area that stret ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Islamic State jihadists attack Christian villages along the river Khabur Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) – In the early hours of yesterday morning, Monday 23 February, more than 40 pick-up vehicles carrying jihadist militia of the so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked several Christian villages al ...
• 24 February 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Growing tension in the capital, Cardinal Urosa denounces murder of 3 students Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, denounced the death of three young men in the Venezuelan state of Táchira. He did so at the end of the 6th Archdiocesan Youth March, h ...
• 24 February 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The government of India does not intend to pass any anti-conversion law New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The Indian government will never approve the controversial “ghar wapsi”, ceremonies of “reconversion” to Hinduism, organised by Hindu extremists, which in recent months have involved ...
• 24 February 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – First step for a representative of the Catholic Church at the African Union Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Berhanu Tamene Woldeyohannes has been appointed head of the office for relations between SECAM (Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) and the African Union in Addis A ...