News

• 7 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Hundreds of children are starving to death because of the drought in the south of the Country Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The civil hospital’s team of paramedics in Mithi, Tharparkar district in the south of Pakistan, for the last two months have witnessed dozens of people, mostly infants under two years of age ...
• 7 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The jungle law" does not stop theft Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) - After the lynching which took place on January 5 in the village of La Cantera (Puebla, Mexico), where one person was killed and three others were seriously injured by locals, the Bishop of the ...
• 7 January 2015
  VATICAN - Pope Francis on the Day of Missionary Childhood: "Children announcers of the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, January 6, the Holy Father Francis recalled that the Solemnity of the Epiphany is also the World Day of Missionary Childhood – one of the Pontifical Mission Societies that is ...
• 5 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copts abducted in Libya. For Islamists they are "legitimate targets" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The armed gangs of the Libyan Islamist Ansar al-Sharia network consider the Egyptian Copts who are in Libya "legitimate targets", and hit them with violence and targeted kidnappings even for retal ...
• 5 January 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Open your eyes and ears": warning of the church for the election campaign Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 4 Mgr. Braulio Sáez Garcia, O.C.D., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) in his homily told the Bolivian community not to be brainwahed ...
• 5 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - An 'educational manual' on the internet for jihadist mothers Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - 'The role of women in the jihad' is the title of a book which was recently presented on the Internet compiled by the extremist group of the Islamic State that continues to train child soldiers. Th ...
• 5 January 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - National Migration Week 2015: "We are one family" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - National Migration Week 2015 is taking place from January 4–10, organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’(USCCB), to raise awareness about the hardships faced by migrants. "T ...
• 5 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Christian Schools welcome the Iraqis children who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 7 thousand Christian refugees who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain that have found refuge in Jordan, more than 1,400 are school age children. Now, thanks to the involvement of Caritas J ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA - Drastic increase of children who try to escape from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Children in Central America find themselves living in one of the most dangerous places . Children under 18 years of age are more likely to die murdered more than any other cause. According to the ...
• 2 January 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Corruption and widespread immorality threaten the nation", say the Bishops Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption, widespread of drugs, immorality are the evils that threaten the nation, according to a New Year Message from the Bishops of Ghana. The message, signed by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei-Bon ...
• 2 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The street is my family": Christmas season: love for children, youth and marginalized people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and vio ...
• 2 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Grand Mufti of Jordan: the pronouncement of the "Fatwa" is reserved for authorized experts Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Legal opinions and religious edicts pronounced on the basis of the Sharia and Islamic jurisprudence are regulated and cannot be pronounced indiscriminately by unauthorized persons. This is what th ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Stigma and discrimination, Ebola also jeopardizes religious practices Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola will have a long impact in Sierra Leone. The total population is 63.48,350 people. To December 19 the total number of cases recorded were 8880 among suspected, probable and confirmed. Accor ...
• 30 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Anti-Christian attacks: Christian leaders urge the faithful to forgiveness Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "What would Christ have said if there were terror attacks during his time?" ask Christian leaders of Kenya in a joint message on the occasion of Christmas to the faithful still shaken by the att ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Hypothesis of a meeting Aoun-Geagea to overcome divisions among political Christian forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Rumors are circulating in Lebanon about an upcoming meeting between General Michel Aoun and former Falangist Samir Geagea, the leaders of the two main Christian political forces - the Free Patr ...