News

• 23 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan Roham: the people suffer even when there is no fighting Monaco (Agenzia Fides) - The suburban areas of northern Syria "are mostly controlled by various insurgent groups." The military government has abandoned the rural areas to concentrate its presence on the city of Hassaké ...
• 23 May 2013
  EUROPE/FRANCE - 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 April 5, 2013 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Patrick Le Gal, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Lyon ...
• 23 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fear of further outbreaks of cholera in refugee camps Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In Niger, a cholera epidemic has affected 248 people in Ayorou, in the northwestern region of Tillabéry. According to the health offices of Tillabéry and the United Nations Agency for Refugees ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic student killed in the village of Kushpur Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A premeditated attack, a young Catholic student was killed and two people were wounded: is the toll of the attack which took place in the village of Kushpur, in the district of Faisalabad, in ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians will bring aid to Syrian refugees during a journey of solidarity Ernakulam (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Christians mobilize for their confreres in Syria which has caused since the beginning of the civil war more than 90,000 victims and refugees continue to increase. The Syrian Christi ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 4 out of 10 children are extremely poor and deprived of basic necessities Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - About 4.8 million children in Argentina belong to families who do not have sufficient income to buy basic goods needed every day. Of these, about 800,000 come from extremely poor families w ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The phenomenon of child labor increases in Yucatan Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Every year child labor in the Mexican state of Yucatan increases. In the streets of Merida, Progreso, Umán Kanasin there are children who beg, wash windows, sell sweets, chewing gum, chocolate.. ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - March of prayer for the Syrian bishops kidnapped. "May the Almighty safeguard the stability in the Hashemite Kingdom" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand people crossed Amman yesterday evening with candles in their hand to pray for the release of the bishops and priests kidnapped in Syria and ask for the gift of peace through ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - "The Church is object of persecution but the government does not intervene" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The recent attack carried out during the inauguration of the parish of St. Joseph the Worker in Arusha (see Fides 6 and 7 May, 2013) is only the latest in a series of acts of persecution a ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - No to worship in the Persian language: a Christian Pastor arrested, the church risks closure Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Pastor, Robert Asserian, of the Protestant denomination "Assembly of God" was arrested yesterday in Tehran during a prayer meeting in his church. As reported to Fides by the NGO "Ch ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Nigeria now almost totters on the brink. Prayer is essential to restore peace" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Catholic Church in Nigeria have warned against the granting of blanket amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group describing such an act as an "endorsement of crimin ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of National the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 confirmed Rev.. Fr. Yvon B. Mabandza, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Brazzavil ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Repression against indigenous peoples has become a systematic practice", denounces the CIMI Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), issued a statement on May 20 in which it denounced the "illegal and authoritarian" manner with which the missionaries and staff of CIMI were treated ...
• 21 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 18,000 street children exploited and at risk of physical, psychological and sexual violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of street children in Mexico is particularly severe and complicated to solve. In fact, despite local institutions try to propose help both to young children and their families ...
• 21 May 2013
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - "Spirituality of communion": the new Archbishop’s manifesto Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Spirituality of communion" is the style and pastoral manifesto of the new Archbishop of Singapore, just appointed by Pope Francis. His Exc. Mgr. William Goh succeeds His Exc. Mgr. Nichols Chi ...