News

• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Progress in justice for the case of a Christian girl raped Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The High Court in Lahore rejected the bail application for the Muslim man accused of having beaten and raped Fouzia Bibi, a 15-year-old Christian girl in the district of Kasur in Punjab. The youn ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A day of prayer for national reconciliation has been announced Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A day of prayer for national reconciliation on the occasion of the second anniversary of the independence of South Sudan was announced by His Exc Mgr. Paride Taban, Bishop Emeritus of Torit and Pre ...
• 20 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – The Bishop emeritus and missionary who helps children in a Country where more than 2 million children live in poverty Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop emeritus of Palencia, Mgr. Nicolas Antonio Castellanos Franco, O.S.A., yesterday met the mayor of the Spanish city of Valladolid to thank him for the help of the munic ...
• 20 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - For more than 50 years the Church has been helping displaced people, who are now more than 5 million Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Social Pastoral Caritas Colombiana re-launches the Holy Father’s invitation "not to be indifferent to the plight of refugees" and "encourages all to reach out to those who were forced to le ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: education, federalism, interfaith harmony are the challenges for the nation Pathein (Agenzia Fides) - In order to progress in freedom, fraternity and democracy, Myanmar has to face some major challenges: the situation of indigenous peoples; the peace in conflicts with ethnic minorities; the prot ...
• 19 June 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Mixed reactions to the peace agreement for Kidal Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The agreement between the Malian authorities and the two groups of Tuareg rebels that control the city of Kidal in the north of the Country, the MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azaw ...
• 19 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appeal for peace in Katanga Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The civil society of Katanga, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a new appeal so that the problems of security in the province resulting from the presence of th ...
• 19 June 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appeal for Christian schools in Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "It is high time that Parliaments, educational institutions around the world raise their voice on what might happen soon in Gaza, making themselves be heard even by Palestinian political leade ...
• 19 June 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The new Communications Law has been approved Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With 108 votes in favor, 26 against and one abstention, after four years the new communications law was approved. The approval was made without discussion (the discussion was already made in the p ...
• 19 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - The indigenous and peasant communities, risk being the "human" suburbs, the priorities of the Populorum Progressio Foundation Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Autonomous Populorum Progressio Foundation assigned, since its founding in 1992, to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum is being held. As every ...
• 18 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The government has not yet responded to the peace initiative of the gangs," said Mgr. Emiliani San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "There has not been so far a clear and obvious response from the government to support the peace process, we are still in time to save Honduras from violence," said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, ...
• 18 June 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 3, 2013 appointed rev. Fr. Heriberto Paizano Paizano of the Diocese of Granada as National Di ...
• 18 June 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Dominican Monge: the EU on the Turkish dossier got it all wrong Istanbul (Agenzia Fides - The authoritarian involution of the Turkish leadership was "favored by European politics, or better by the European polical immobility with respect to the integration of Turkey to the Union." Th ...
• 18 June 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Controversy on the dates of elections and in the meantime Christian churches organize the monitoring of the vote Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Over 200 Christian religious leaders, including priests and Bishops, have been trained to follow the upcoming presidential election in Zimbabwe. The program was sponsored by Southern Africa Crisi ...
• 18 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Catholic Church at the center of dialogue among the faiths to ease the tension Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We have started dialogue between Muslims, Catholics and Protestants to calm the situation down, otherwise this Country is likely to explode," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirr ...