News

• 30 June 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Archbishop of Madang: "Church and State united against domestic violence" Madang (Agenzia Fides) - "Domestic violence in the family and sexual violence are of great concern in Papua New Guinea. It is a widespread and serious problem that we have to fight and we need to work all together": this ...
• 30 June 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The complaint of the Bishop of Saltillo: "Stop physical violence against detainees" Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - Elements of the "Special Weapons and Tactics Group" (GATE) went to the prisons of Coahuila to beat up the detainees: this was denounced by the Bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexic ...
• 30 June 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Exploitation of children: from the World Cup to the Winter Olympics 2016 Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - As has been widely pointed out, in addition to money, job opportunities and economic development, the World Cup currently underway, with about 4 million tourists, increases the risk of se ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archbishop of Lahore: "A new springtime for the Church in our country" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very grateful to the Holy Father. He has appointed the new Bishop Joseph Arshad in Faisalabad, the new Archbishop of Lahore, the new Apostolic Administrator in Multan. They are very ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two nuns and three young Chaldeans arrested in Mosul by jihadists of the ISIL Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had returned to Mosul by c ...
• 30 June 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Civil society organizes itself, but authorities do not always help", says a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is still very fragile", says to Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary, pastor in Bozoum, in the Central African Republic, where the crisis was one of the points ...
• 30 June 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks in the north: the Bishop of Maiduguri, "the human mind cannot understand what is going on" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - There are no Catholic churches involved in yesterday’s attacks in the three villages near Chibok, the town in northern Nigeria where more than 200 girls were abducted in April by the Islamic ext ...
• 30 June 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Marijuana and cocaine as early as 12 years of age San Luis Potosí (Agenzia Fides) - According to a national Study on Addictions, the city of San Luis Potosi recorded cases of children who at the age of 12 begin to consume drugs. The highest consumption is marijuana, fo ...
• 28 June 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "social audio book" in defense of the Africans with albinism, the last of the last Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "They are white in Africa. They are the last of the last" reads the home page of the site dedicated to the initiative in defense of Africans suffering from albinism which bears the same name of th ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination and violence against a Christian businessman, threatened by Islamic extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Jabar Masih, from the district of Nahla in Lahore, has been threatened by extremists, "If you do not convert to Islam, you cannot continue your business", they ordered. Jabar, who l ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Head of UNICEF: In northern Iraq, a plan of "ethnic and religious cleansing" that affects minorities Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of the Islamic State of Iraq ...
• 28 June 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Solidarity of Churches for the humanitarian emergency of immigrant children Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - "By the end of September, the number of Central American and Mexican undocumented immigrant children who come to Laredo and Brownsville in Texas could reach 90 000": this was said yesterday by th ...
• 28 June 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – IDPs are increasing: the Church appeals to the authorities to resolve the crisis Magangué (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to find the appropriate solution with regards to the plight of internally displaced persons: is the appeal launched to public institutions by Mgr. Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo, Apost ...
• 27 June 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Poverty and hunger, the consequences of an unjust economic system Wukro (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty in Africa is the result of a global economy based on injustice. Chronic hunger seems a completely normal phenomenon. "No one can imagine the horror of the consequences of poverty", says Fa ...
• 27 June 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Social Week begins, to promote "the culture of meeting" Mar de Plata (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 27th June, the XXXI Argentine Social Week begins in the diocese of Mar de Plata. This important event will see the presence of many authorities nationwide. During the presentation of ...