News

• 8 August 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Legislative elections: "Orient oneself according to the candidates' coherence" say the bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Mgr. José María Arancedo, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, commented to the press, a few days before the first round of the ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Abuse and forced marriages for refugee children Zaatari (Agenzia Fides) - People continue to be increasingly desperate and poor. The children who fled the war in Syria with their families continue to be exploited, abused and forced into early marriages, quite unusual ...
• 7 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Strategic Security Plan: all together to stop violence and have peace Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Mexican Diocese in Irapuato, His Exc. Mgr. José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda, asked the population to support and contribute to the realization of the "Strategic Security Plan" ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rule of law almost non-existent, abuses are the norm", says a UN report Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are extremely concerned about reports of killings, torture, arbitrary detention, violence against women, forced disappearances, acts of popular justice, as well as the general climate of inse ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the name of Patriarch Tawadros II in a list of people to kill Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There is also the name of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the top of a list of the dozens of people to be eliminated, found in an unonymous envelope in a mosque in Cairo. The list inc ...
• 7 August 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Let us pray for the victims of injustice and for workers who receive low wages": 200 thousand faithful at the feast of the Santo Cristo de La Grita The Grita (Agenzia Fides) - In a nationally televised Mass, attended by more than 200 thousand faithful gathered at the Shrine of La Grita, the Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Mario del ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and logistics of poor quality penalize the children of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The poor quality of education that children receive in the Indian state of Bihar is a daily tragedy. In the village of Gandaman a school has just opened to help the most vulnerable community of Da ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac Christians will be able to build their own schools Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Foundation of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Santa Maria has received from the Turkish courts the permission to build their own schools for children and young people in their community, ensuri ...
• 6 August 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - For the first time WACOM in Latin America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna (Austria) and President of the World Congress of Divine Mercy, is in Colombia to attend the WACOM III (World Apostolic Congress on Mercy) Pre-Co ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copts targeted by Islamists, incited by al-Zawahiri Minya (Agenzia Fides) - There are growing attacks and violence against Christians in Egypt when on Saturday Islamist sites and blogs began to re-launch the video message of Ayman al-Zawahiri in which the current leader o ...
• 6 August 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Suárez on the violence that affects Michoacán: "We are hitting rock bottom, it is time to react" Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - "It was time that the Presidency of the Republic, the federal government focused on the area of Michoacan to sustain us, but it is also time to consolidate the government of our state in order t ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - North Kivu: "the Church replaces the State in failure", says the President of Secours Catholique Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A million refugees distributed in thirty tents are welcomed in Goma, the capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), where fighting between the Congolese army and various rebe ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Emergency cases of measles complicated in addition to 1,500 of malaria Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of the spread of the measles epidemic recorded in the county of Yirol West, in South Sudan (see Fides 01/07/2013) continues. After the appeal launched by the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram liable to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has released a preliminary report on the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram, according to which it can be assumed that the acts attributed t ...
• 6 August 2013
  VATICAN - Message of His Holiness Francis for the World Mission Day 2013 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides publishes Pope Francis's Message for World Mission Day, which this year will be celebrated on Sunday, October 20 Dear Brothers and Sisters, This year, as we celebrate World Mis ...