News

• 8 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Agreement for the formation of the poorest young people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas of Peru and the Professional service and development training Center (government institution), signed an institutional cooperation Agreement, which lasts two years, aimed at human developme ...
• 7 June 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We talk a lot about poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," Caritas outraged by the President’s words Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "There is much talk of poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," says Mgr. Oscar Ojea Quintana, Bishop of San Isidro and President of Caritas Argentina, responding to journalists wi ...
• 7 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Twenty pastors of the Baptist Church attacked by Hindu extremists Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Hindu extremists brutally attacked 20 Protestant Pastors of the Baptist Church in the district of Mahehwaram Mandal, territory of Hyderabad, the state capital of Andhra Pradesh in south-centra ...
• 7 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Two Presbyterian pastors illegally detained since May 19 Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Two pastors of the Presbyterian Church have been held since 19 May by the authorities of South Sudan, that prevent any contact with the detainees’ relatives and their lawyers. This was revealed ...
• 7 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The UN denounces new violence against civilians in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Extrajudicial executions as well as other serious human rights violations were committed in and around the town of Pinga in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This was revealed ...
• 7 June 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - A mosque in Taksim Square? Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Premier Tayyip Erdogan, who returned yesterday to his country after his visit in some Countries of the Maghreb, called for the "immediate end" of the demonstrations which have trigg ...
• 7 June 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A seminary attacked "for unknown reasons," says the Bishop Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-diocesan seminary "Jisu Dhyana Niloy" in the Diocese of Dinajpur, in the north of Bangladesh, was attacked yesterday afternoon by a group of local Muslims. This is confirmed to Fides ...
• 6 June 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Synod of the Chaldean Church has begun Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, June 5 the Synod of the Chaldean Church convened by the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako began in Baghdad. The beginning of the assembly was also attend ...
• 6 June 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The crisis is a disadvantage for everyone: the Church welcomes the new North-South negotiations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The willingness to re-open the joint industrial zone in Kaesong is a step forward that will kick off a process of thaw and rapprochement between North and South Korea. This is what the Korean Chur ...
• 6 June 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops’ warning: Too much violence in Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul (Agenzia Fides) - " Injustice generates more violence!" say the Bishops of the Western Region (Mato Grosso do Sul), in a statement issued on June 5 on the resurgence of the clash of land in the region ...
• 6 June 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam involves Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia (and even Israel?) Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam which is currently under construction on the Blue Nile is creating tension between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. According to a report published by a tri ...
• 6 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extremists who burned the Christian area have been released; the man accused of blasphemy on trial Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of men who in March set fire to the Christian area of Lahore "Joseph Colony" were released by the police and out of 83 men identified and arrested, 31 have obtained bail. On the other ha ...
• 6 June 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - More than 52,000 Congolese expelled from Angola in 3 weeks; an NGO reports cases of sexual violence Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - 52.231 people have crossed the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last three weeks, expelled by force by the authorities in Luanda. This was reported by the NGO ...
• 6 June 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - There is a truce between the gangs that have only made a general declaration of repentance San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "The gangs have made a declaration of repentance towards God and towards society, but not among themselves. I cannot understand how and why there is so much hate among them." This was sta ...
• 5 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Protect Somali nationals in South Africa", The Prime Minister of Somalia’s appeal to President Zuma Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "I appeal to the government of the Republic of South Africa as a matter of urgency to intervene and contain this unnecessary and unfortunate violence against Somali business communities to ...