News

• 10 August 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More than 500 women were killed in the first half of 2013 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 women were murdered in Colombia in the first half of 2013. The region of Valle del Cauca is at the top of the list with a total of 144 cases of femicide, followed by Antioquia with ...
• 10 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Matta Alkhouri: stop the speculation regarding the bishops kidnapped Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week some politician or some journalist pulls out some story on the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo kidnapped. But so far they have always been unverifiable deductions. The reality is ...
• 10 August 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Killed during missionary work 22 years ago, a witness which is always alive Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Diocese of Chimbote, commemorates the martyrdom of Franciscan friars Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Miguel Tomaszek in Pariacoto, and of Father Sandro Dordi in the town of Santa, ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA - Today International Day of the world’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 August every year we celebrate the International Day of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, which was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1994, with the resolution ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - International Day of Indigenous Peoples: the demands of the indigenous of Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In preparation of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples (which is celebrated today, August 9), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), convened an enlarged Council ...
• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence of the Seleka rebels continues against civilians, a missionary denounces Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against civilians committed by the rebel coalition Seleka continues in the Central African Republic. As reported to Fides Agency by Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, more than a thousand people hav ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Groups of the Assyrian diaspora in the U.S.: the Kurdistan Regional Government recognizes the genocide of our people Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Some organizations operating in the Iraqi Diaspora in the U.S. have sent a letter to Masoud Barzani, President of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, to ask for such a political entity to re ...
• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Threats to marriage and family", warn the Bishops of the Province of Ibadan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of Faith, which began in October 2012, has witnessed a new zeal and energy and zeal in the laity’s outreach in evangelization" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan, ...
• 9 August 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The rights of the Guaranì at the center of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples Dourados (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Amnesty International on August 7, visited the Kaiowá Guaranì indigenous communities in the region of Dourados (MS). During the meeting, the Guarani Kaiowá leaders met the Se ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Minister Bonino on the kidnapping of Fr. Dall'Oglio "We grope in the dark" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - ''There is no news on the group that kidnapped Fr. Dall’Oglio. We are still groping in the dark''. This is how Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino expressed herself, on the morning of August 9, ...
• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary found dead in Haiti, an example to propose also for sanctification Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian episcopate will begin in 2015 the practice to ask the Vatican for the beatification of the missionary and pediatrician Zilda Arns, founder and coordinator of the Pastoral of the C ...
• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 4 villages of ethnic Q'eqchi are isolated due to severe floods, the Church intervenes San Pedro Carchá (Agenzia Fides) - The torrential rains that hit the town of Santa Catalina La Tinta, which is part of the Department of Alta Verapaz, have caused serious damage to the population of the mountainous area ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - The trial for the explosions of 2012 has begun; several victims still homeless Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - On August 6, the trial of a dozen soldiers accused of causing a series of explosions in the barracks of Mpila situated in a suburban area of the capital of the Republic of Congo began in Bra ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER – To safeguard Creation at the center of the Bishops’ message for the end of Ramadan Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims, Christians and believers of other faiths, all have a duty to work as servants of the Almighty, the Lord of earth and Heaven, in favor of Creation which is a wonderful and generous gift ...
• 8 August 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: The Country must remain neutral Dimane (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon can avoid the many pitfalls that threaten its stability only if it remains out of the wars raging on its borders and maintain its "neutrality before the on-going conflicts at a regional a ...