News

• 29 April 2013
  AFRICA/MALI – The situation improves but the plight of displaced persons and refugees is not forgotten Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Commission for Dialogue and Reconciliation has already begun its work, the safety conditions have improved and the civil administration is resuming its duties in the northern cities liberate ...
• 29 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Holy Week of the Eastern Churches begins in the sign of the bishops kidnapped Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities in Syria are working together to plead for the release of the two bishops of Aleppo kidnapped – the Syrian-Orthodox Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and the ...
• 29 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Theft in the churches: Cardinal Terrazas responds to Morales Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - In a clear and direct manner the Bolivian Cardinal Julio Terrazas, confirmed the suitability, loyalty and dedication of his confrere bishops, in service to the Church of Bolivia and denounced ...
• 29 April 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - Vaccination campaign against deadly childhood diseases Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After one year since the launch of a campaign of vaccination against various childhood diseases, including measles and polio, Haiti is ready for a similar project against tetanus and rota ...
• 29 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A missionary: "The collapse of the factory brings together the elements of discontent: explosive situation" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The story of the collapse of the factory on the outskirts of Dhaka" has shocked the nation and has aggregated all the elements of discontent in society," says to Fides Agency Fr. Silvano Garello, ...
• 27 April 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Church defends the Amazon environment, threatened by the interests of market Pastaza (Agenzia Fides) - "The voracity of huge unscrupulous multinational corporations and governments threaten the natural environment of the Amazon": is what the bishop of Riobamba and president of the Episcopal Commi ...
• 27 April 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Clashes amaong Indians and exploitation of the earth: for the Bishops it is "a conflict due to indifference" Pastaza (Agenzia Fides) - Riots and massacres among different tribes of Indians, with regards to the exploitation of the land of the Amazon: it is due to the tensions suffered in recent weeks in Eastern Ecuador, in the A ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Eight arrests for the collapse of the factory, three Christian girls missing Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - As one continues to dig under the rubble of the eight-storey building which collapsed last Wednesday on the outskirts of Dhaka, burying more than three thousand people, all workers from three text ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The "new Korean martyrs": an example in the Year of Faith Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is even martyrdom. We wanted to express our spiritual closeness to all the faithful who bore witness to their faith in the distant past, in recent decades, and many still keep alight the fl ...
• 27 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 70 churches destroyed in the state of Benue Makurdi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church stressess a gloomy picture of the situation in the state of Benue, in central Nigeria: the social and religious crisis that crosses the region, more than 70 churches have bee ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Anxiety for the bishops kidnapped. New details on the dynamics of the seizure Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - While among the Christians of Syria and around the world anxiety increases for the fate of Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos al-Yazigi - Syrian Orthodox and Greek-Orthodox bishops of Alepp ...
• 26 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Archbishop Douglas: "It is urgent to find something better than the death penalty" Mount Hagnen (Agenzia Fides) – Before the blind violence towards other human beings, of rapists and murderers, the pain and frustration of the victims, "the reaction of many, even of the General Attorney, is to ask for ...
• 26 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Our leadership is intact" ensures the Archbishop of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Christian leaders in Southern Sudan have asked for clarification on the apparent tension between the leaders of the State when a month ago, President Salva Kiir had withdrawn the delegation of cert ...
• 26 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Drug addiction, HIV, salmonella, tuberculosis: street children’s health at risk Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to being malnourished and carry out heavy and dangerous work, street children are also victims of diseases such as tuberculosis, salmonella, HIV/AIDS, influenza. About 60% of these ...
• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The ultimatum of the Islamists to the government: "Approve the law of blasphemy or we will siege Dhaka" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in Bangladesh between Islamist movements and the government. The group Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) - which at the beginning of April had promoted a major demonstration - has launched ...