News

• 30 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - How to prevent child labor and ensure adequate opportunities for growth Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Tierra de Niños" is the name of an organization established in Peru with the aim of offering aid to families and in the educational and social field so that boys, girls and adolescents acquire se ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I to "Muslim brothers": condemn violent extremism that exploits religion Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope you openly express your rejection and your condemnation of violent religious extremism, because it distorts religion". This is the appeal that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The Latin Bishops of the region discuss the pastoral care of immigrants in the Arabian Peninsula Ras Al Khaimah (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (CELRA) began yesterday, September 29, and will continue until Thursday, October 2. This year the meeting will be held ...
• 29 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The High Court: It is legitimate to declare that one does not belong to any religion Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The Bombay High Court has ruled that the State cannot "compel any citizen to disclose his religion while submitting forms or declarations": the decision reaffirms the secular character of Indian ...
• 29 September 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Child workers: the exploitation of children represents a permanent crisis Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The exploitation of child labor in Guatemala represents a permanent crisis, where the perpetrators of this heinous phenomenon are mostly family members or friends of the family, who force ...
• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops denounce the manipulation of tribalism: "Put an end to the civil war now" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "War is evil (...).There is no moral justification for any further killing. The fighting and killing must stop immediately and unconditionally" say the Catholic Bishops of South Sudan in a message ...
• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Twelve years after the tragedy of the ferry Joola, ships are still overloaded and continue to travel" denounces the Church Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The sinking of the ferry Joola, on September 26, 2002, "highlights even today our sins of negligence, lack of sense of responsibility, of fatalism", said Mgr. Alphonse Seck, Vicar General of Dakar ...
• 29 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Prevention and relief centers: the Church committed against addiction Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - "We must find a strategy for the prevention of addictions, and there are many ways. Unfortunately, what I see is the lack of rehabilitation centers or other supporting organizations. We have o ...
• 29 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl raped, the perpetrators film the violence Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - Four young Muslims from Sialkot raped a 15-year-old Christian girl Monaza Bibi, and filmed the gang rape. As Fides learns by Christian lawyer Mushtaq Gill, who is dealing with the case, the vict ...
• 29 September 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The natives are victims of poverty and racism Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - A relatively new phenomenon, that is rapidly evolving in Paraguay, concerns the natives who are expelled from their native lands and sent to cities such as Asunción and Ciudad del Este. The c ...
• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic woman who had disappeared returns home: she did not convert but had been kidnapped Gabal al Tir (Agenzia Fides) - Iman Sarofim, the Coptic woman from Gabal al-Tir who disappeared in early September returned home to her family and said she was the victim of a kidnapping. Initially it was thought that th ...
• 27 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pastor killed in prison is "a new martyr" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Zafar Bhatti, an innocent man killed "is a new martyr", says in an interview with Fides Agency, prof. Shahid Mobeen, Pakistani professor of Islamic mysticism at the Pontifical Lateran University an ...
• 27 September 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - 145th Salesian Missionary Expedition: to go all over the world to educate and evangelize Turin (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, 28 September, the missionaries of the 145th Salesian Missionary Expedition will receive the missionary cross from the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime. Later, they will set ou ...
• 27 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New rules for the construction of churches: Christians prepare their proposal Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of Churches and Christian communities in Egypt will gather next week to put the final touch on proposals and suggestions on the draft law which will be discussed in the next pa ...
• 27 September 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Do not be afraid of peace" Pope Francis’ letter to Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From 21 to 26 September the International Week of Peace was celebrated in Venezuela. The government and various institutions in the country organized meetings, events and moments of dialogue and ...