News

• 2 July 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian crisis and lack of investment in social sectors affect 70% of children Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict in 9 of the 18 States of Sudan continues to aggravate the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees. The phenomenon affects mainly children, in fact 70% of the ...
• 2 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A young Palestinian kidnapped and killed. Patriarch Twal: Stop human sacrifice Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not worthy of political and religious leaders to support, feed, foment revenge. Revenge calls for revenge, blood calls for blood. And innocent people who are killed, all the children ki ...
• 2 July 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Legislation for therapeutic abortion is "immoral, unconstitutional and illegal" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Peru, faced with the approval of the National Technical Guide for therapeutic abortion by the Ministry of Health, are turning to the Catholic faithful, citizenship and especially to ...
• 2 July 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign in schools in favor of children on the issue of responsibility San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - Even this year, the Catholic Church of San Pedro Sula has launched the campaign for Children 2014 in all educational institutes in the city. This is the 36th edition and has the theme of ...
• 1 July 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Political crisis: Bishops’ appeal for the common good Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Honesty and commitment to the common good are essential ingredients of politics. An authentic political authority in a democratic system is accountable to the people it represents. It seem ...
• 1 July 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Still difficulty for many undocumented Haitians Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The ordeal for the descendants of migrants, mostly Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who need to regularize their position otherwise risk losing their citizenship continues. Des ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Half a century at the service of the Church and of society, and religious institutes look to the future Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Union of Superiors of Religious Women Institutes in Taiwan was the occasion to better look at the biggest problems that religious institutes active ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Helping indigenous women and promoting their social and economic development Chintapalli (Agenzia Fides) - Helping Indigenous women to start units of “Mutual Aided Cooperative Societies” (MACS) among them in order to promote their socio-economic development is a new project by the Salesians i ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Solidarity towards the orphans of the massacre in the church of Peshawar Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - They have had their lives turned upside down by the terrorism that crept into the very walls of the church: there are visible signs of the hundreds of orphans and widows who are still suffering ...
• 1 July 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop of Rustenburg says thanks for the help given to the miners who have concluded the strike Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We have received a great response to the appeal launched in favor of miners on strike", writes His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowling, Bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa. The workers in the platinum ...
• 1 July 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Despite the distrust of the population, the police fight against crime Piedras Negras (Agenzia Fides) - The people do not have confidence in the police force, despite the efforts of the authorities: the assertion comes from the Bishop of the Diocese of Piedras Negras (Coahuila, Mexico), His ...
• 1 July 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The emerging phenomenon of women who are victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish police estimated 10,862 "potential victims" of human trafficking, found in places where other victims have been identified, such as industrial areas, strip clubs or brothels. The police a ...
• 1 July 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Twelve thousand refugees in the Cathedral of Bambari, the Bishop's appeal to Fides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We have welcomed at least 12,000 people in the Saint Joseph Cathedral who are still totally without any assistance" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Eduard Mathos, Bishop of Bambari, in the Ce ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako’s appeal for the release of the abducted nuns and orphans Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako, has made a public appeal to "those who are holding the nuns and orphans kidnapped in Mosul three days ago". According to Fides Ag ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father David Neuhaus SJ: sorrow and grief over the killing of the three teens, it is necessary to put an end to the cycle of violence Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "There is immense sadness for what happened yesterday with regards to the killing of the three teens. We are close to their families and friends, let us pray that the Lord will help them to li ...