News

• 28 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Decree on migration is ready, the first of its kind in the country La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - It is expected that on the 8th of August, President Evo Morales will issue a supreme decree on "immigration amnesty" in Bolivia. It would be the first decree which, together with the immigration ...
• 28 June 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The victims in the Old Town caused by two mortar shells Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Sources of the Melkite Patriarchate in Damascus - whose headquarters is situated a few hundred meters from the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate - refer to Fides Agency that the cause of the death of ...
• 28 June 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Tension in Mozambique after the recent attacks on transportation lines Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Mozambique increases, after an armed group linked to RENAMO blocked the E1, the main arterial road of the Country. The E1 connects the south to the center-north of the Country and is ...
• 27 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes of finding the priest believed to be dead alive Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - There are still hopes of finding don Néstor Darío Buendía Martínez alive, the priest missing in Colombia and whose death was announced, after a body was found, that was believed to be his. ...
• 27 June 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE – Death of "Bepi" Berton, the apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Giuseppe Berton, a Xaverian missionary, apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone died on June 25, at the mother house of the Xaverians in Parma. In a note sent to Fides Agency the current ...
• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Two thousand villages flooded: Indian friars and nuns active in helping the victims in Uttarkand New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The flash floodings in Uttarkand are "a national tragedy that affects many of our people. As religious Indians, along with all the Church, we are deeply moved and we respond with prayer and wi ...
• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and boycotted in Orissa on charges of "forced conversions" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Hindu extremists have launched a series of attacks and boycotts against Christians in Orissa (eastern India). As reported to Fides by local sources, on 24 June a large group of Hindu extremi ...
• 27 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – More violence in the TIPNIS, the Church at the side of the indigenous peoples Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - After the clashes which occured last weekend between the 2 groups that control the representation of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), the Catholic Church a ...
• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Acts of vandalism and insults against a church: a Muslim man forgiven Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Forgiveness, reconciliation, trust: with this attitude, the community of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in the Apostolic Vicariate in Quetta, Baluchistan province, handled a tric ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest who disappeared days ago found dead Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Father Néstor Darío Buendía Martinez (see Fides 25/06/2013) was found dead in an isolated area of the town of Los Cordobas. Although the priest had never reported of hav ...
• 26 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - From social conflict to religious violence: fear of Christians in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Interfaith tension in Rahim Yar Khan, a town in Punjab. An episode of conflict between Christians and Muslims has generated mass protests of Christians and could escalate into open anti-Christian ...
• 26 June 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - 15 victims and about twenty wounded in an attack by an armed group from Ethiopia Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 15 victims (including 6 women and 5 children) and about twenty wounded. This is the toll of an assault carried out on June 23 by an armed gang in Choroko, in the County of Mandera, on t ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church condemns the assault against the elderly who ask for a pension Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "How can one keep silent with regards to an unjust act against the elderly who are an example for us and for our future," said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, Mgr. Silvio Baez. T ...
• 26 June 2013
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Patriarch Kirill: let us collect funds for Christians in Syria Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - An amazing collection of money in all the churches of the Patriarchate of Moscow, to be allocated to the Syrian people torn by civil war. The initiative was launched yesterday, Tuesday, June 25, ...
• 26 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Minister for Minorities and Human Rights in Punjab is Catholic, but the budget is low Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is a Catholic minister in the government of Punjab province, the heart of Pakistan, at an economic, political and cultural level. His name is Khalil Tahir Sindhu, a lawyer elected from the ...