News

• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Wall in the valley of Cremisan changes route, but does not stop Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency released its verdict on actions brought by a convent of the Salesian Sisters and many families of Palestinian farmers aga ...
• 26 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The South African Bishops "regret" the approval of the Protection of State Information Bill Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African Bishops "regret" the approval of the Protection of State Information Bill and ask President Jacob Zuma to refer it to the judgment of the Constitutional Court. In a state ...
• 26 April 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - A missionary killed in the capital of Haiti Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A missionary of the Society of Mary, Canadian priest, was killed on April 24 in the capital of Haiti, on the same day in which the Haitian authorities had defined the results achieved in ...
• 25 April 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Education and sports activities for street children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - This past September, the Ministry for Women and Vulnerable Populations approved a national program for the protection of children and adolescents who live abandoned in the streets. This is the Yach ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, 87,000 children die from preventable diseases Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, about 435,000 annual deaths of children under five years of age, 20% die of polio, pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and hepatitis B, all preventable ...
• 25 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Controversy in Nigeria after the massacre in Baga Jos (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy fighting in recent days in the village of Baga, a fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad, in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, where at least 185 people have died, including many ar ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Report on Religious Freedom: sectarian and confessional violence increases Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The recent destruction of the minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo and the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops, note sources of Fides, symbolize "having crossed a red line" in the Syrian co ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Appeal: "Cherish the earth to save Mindanao" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to preserve the natural environment, and save the island of Mindanao: this is a joint urgent appeal by the Bishops of the four dioceses on the island of Mindanao, in southern Ph ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Candlelight procession in Jerusalem against the French law on same-sex marriages Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Jerusalem, as in other cities in the world, spontaneous gatherings are taking place these days to express dissent with the law authorizing the so-called same-sex marriage, which was ap ...
• 25 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A month after the conquest of Bangui rebels continue to vex the population Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the conquest, on March 24, of the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, by the rebels of the coalition Seleka, the situation is far from stabilized. While in Bangui mo ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New project for 2000 children at the National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi (NHP) and Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, in Rome (OPBG) have just launched a new project born from the need for special assistance to children wit ...
• 24 April 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Mgr. Martinelli is concerned about yesterday’s attack and saddened by the deaths of two nuns Tripoli (Agenzia Fides). "It was a terrible thing, the blast was felt in a radius of more than three kilometers. We are all on alert, even if the authorities are busy to restore security," says to Fides Agency His Exc. M ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: "Kidnappings are a plague: the aim is money" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - More than religion, the reason is money. In an interview with Fides, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Msg. Antoine Audo, argues that "the scourge of kidnapping," that plagues the nation, has the ai ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishops kidnapped: yesterday's news on their release proved wrong Aleppo (Agenzia Fides). The news spread yesterday on the release of the two bishops in Aleppo kidnapped the night before have no certain and definite confirmation. The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch confirms to ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of the bishops kidnapped: may God put an end to the tragedy of our people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A plea to the kidnappers so that they respect the life of the hostages, "refrain from any violence which is useful only to the enemies of our country" An appeal to abandon "all that allows or p ...