News

• 4 March 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - " Fraternity and human trafficking", a constant struggle against this scourge Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, March 5, Ash Wednesday, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) will officially open the Fraternity Campaign 2014 in Brasilia, which this year will focus on "Fraternity an ...
• 4 March 2014
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Major exhibit on Armenian Genocide available online Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - A major exhibit consisting of 20 panels with over 150 historic photographs documenting the role of the Armenian Church during the Armenian Genocide with testimony from survivors and witnesses wi ...
• 4 March 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "No to indirect elections", say the Bishops who fear fraud and manipulation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are contrary to the hypothesis of indirect vote to elect mayors, councilors and provincial deputies, as proposed by the President of the Independ ...
• 4 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to judges and lawyers: two Christians accused of blasphemy remain in jail Gojra (Agenzia Fides) - Two innocent Christians, Shafaqat Emmanuel, paralyzed, and his wife, Shagufta Kausar, accused of "blasphemy via sms" remain in the prison in Toba Tek Singh: The High Court in Lahore has in fact re ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A young Christian girl killed by the Taliban for helping a Muslim converted to Christianity Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A young Christian girl was killed by the Pakistani Taliban in the northern region of Pakistan. The girl had spent a few months on the run and in hiding with her cousin, a Muslim who converted ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political leader denounces: the lands of Christians who emigrated plundered with the complicity of corrupt officials Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian politician Imad Youkhana, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa) and member of the Iraqi parliament, denounced some officials of the Nineveh province after collecting ...
• 3 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Five thousand people with the Bishop to march for peace and the family Morelos (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 5000 people, mostly Catholics, on Sunday morning, March 2 walked the streets of Cuernavaca to participate in the "March for Peace and the family", sponsored by the Bishop of Cuern ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Two men accused of having participated in the murder of the missionary Graham Staines have been acquitted Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Orissa acquitted Ghanashyam Mohanta and Ranjan Mohanta, two men who were accused of having participated, along with 16 other extremists, in the killing of the Australian Christian ...
• 3 March 2014
  AMERICA/CANADA - A goal of solidarity has been accomplished: a house for 400 families in Haiti, left homeless after the earthquake Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace ("Développement et paix, OCCDP), a member of Caritas Internationalis, recently announced the closure of its reconstruction project ...
• 3 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, completely deserted after the rebel attacks: the testimony of a missionary to Fides Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Malakal, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, is completely deserted. Although our safety was guaranteed, staying there would have been completely useless, because we would not have had anyone to assist ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - No medical care for: thirty thousand people with HIV/AIDS and over 3000 with tuberculosis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Union of Burma ordered the cessation of all activities of the Dutch section of the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) underway in the Country despite the fact that tens of tho ...
• 1 March 2014
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Dubai has a parish with 400,000 faithful Dubai (Agenzia Fides) – The largest Catholic parish community in the world may be in Dubai. Some 400,000 Catholic faithful are registered in the area assigned to the parish of Santa Maria, in the most populous city o ...
• 1 March 2014
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN – Prison for Christian pastor “a threat to the mental health of the people” Astana (Agenzia Fides) – Christian preaching is “extremely harmful to mental health of the people”: this is the conviction of the judges in an Astana law court where on these grounds the Kazak Christian pastor Ba ...
• 1 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 62nd Catholic Festival of Egyptian Cinema opening ceremony Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The 62nd Catholic Festival of Egyptian Cinema was officially opened in the evening of Friday 28 February at the Nile Hall - a 500 seat multi-media hall annexed to Saint Joseph’s Latin Catholi ...
• 1 March 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops: urgent “truly humane” response to question of refugees Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary “to give a truly humane response to the question of refugees and asylum seekers”. “People seeking asylum are human beings who deserve respect and recognition of thei ...