News

• 27 February 2014
  AMERICA/PERU’ - “Ninos de plomo” Children of Lead: education programme for mineral contaminated minors Callao (Agenzia Fides) – They are all little inhabitants of a shanty town around Puerto Nuevo, in the district of Callao, Peru, who live situations at risk, day in day out, contaminated by lead, because of environment ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Tension with Israel over Holy Places, Archbishop Lahham: enough defiant acts Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The majority of the members of the Jordanian parliament voted in favour of a motion to expel the Israeli ambassador from the country and to recall the ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom to Isra ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Move army command to epicentre of Boko Haram violence” Nigerian Senate orders Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is still shocked after the killing of more than 40 students in a dormitory of the government run Buni-Yadi college in the north eastern state of Yobe, during the night of 25 February. The ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Work goes on at Bangui university despite chaos Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people at Bangui University, under the guidance of local Jesuit Fathers, continues to keep the doors of the college open despite extreme violence and political disorder which ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Leading politicians reassure new Archbishop: “government will respect the rights of Pakistan’s Churches” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) –Political leaders in Pakistan say the state will respect the rights, property and status of Pakistan’s Christian Churches, according to a report sent to Fides. The promise was made to the new ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALI – More than 3 million suffer food shortage, some 50,000 could starve to death before the end of 2014 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – In Mali some 136,000 children are severely undernourished , a pathology which registers high mortality rates, and another 360,000 are moderately undernourished According to latest reports iss ...
• 26 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Christians in prayer to accompany imminent National Peace Conference Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Mariano José Parra Sandoval of the diocese of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) and Pastor Christian Sebastia of the local Church of Jesus Christ, have urged all local Christians to ...
• 26 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “A process of reconciliation is necessary”, Bishops call dialogue to discover the truth Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – “With deep concern we watch the events happening in our country. Above all we see the violence, with its tragic consequences, people dead and wounded. The dead and the wounded belong neither ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Iraq’s Catholic Bishops insist: we must react to the violence destroying our nation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The dramatic situation which Iraq is experiencing has prompted the country’s Catholic Bishops, yesterday in assembly, to urge the nation’s Christians and all Iraqis to react against sect ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN – Humanitarian aid and videogames for orphans in Herat Herat (Agenzia Fides) – Rice, oil, winter clothes, trainers, toys, various hand-craft kits and videogames, were recently delivered, with the help of the Spanish Airforce, Ejército del Aire, and sent by several Spanish ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Pluralism endangered” government inertia NGO report Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – The historical and traditional religious pluralism which has always marked Indonesia is at risk due to inertia on the part of the government which leaves space for Islamic extremists: this war ...
• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – The UN takes closer look at massacres in 2002 and the present situation of freedom of religion in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) – The United Nations Organisation intends to act to guarantee that the human right of ‘freedom of religion’, ratified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is fully respected in t ...
• 25 February 2014
  OCEANIA/TUVALU – Appointment of the Superior of the Missio sui iuris of Funafuti Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 24 February 2014, appointed as Ecclesiastic Superior of the Missio sui iuris of Funafuti, in Tuvalu (Pacific Islands) Father Reynaldo B. Getalado, a memb ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/LYBIA - “These extremists are shedding innocent blood to get more visibility” says Archbishop Martinelli Bengasi (Agenzia Fides) - “It is not clear what these extremists really want. They would appear to be shedding the blood of innocent victims to get more visibility. Orthodox Coptic Christians have been their target for ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Our place is here”: caring for mothers and infants in need of medical attention Yirol (Agenzia Fides) – War is making it ever more difficult to help mothers and infants in need. Caring for the most vulnerable is the constant commitment of Medici Africa Cuamm in the martyred land of South Sudan. T ...