News

• 27 March 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Meeting between representatives of the Churches on the condition and the current problems of the Christian communities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, March 26 leaders and representatives of the Churches and Christian communities in Iraq gathered at the headquarters of the Chaldean Patriarchate in Bagdad to discuss the pres ...
• 27 March 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Government Offices open at Easter: the protest of Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Some tax offices and government departments have told their employees to stay open on 29, 30 and 31 March, which for Christians are days that go from Good Friday to Easter. As learned from Fid ...
• 27 March 2013
  AFRICA - Crisis in Central Africa repercussions in Chad and South Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The fall of President François Bozizé has generated some consequences in Chad and South Africa, two Countries with troops involved in the crisis in the Central African Republic. The new "strong ...
• 26 March 2013
  AMERICA/REP. SANTO DOMINGO - Hope for the inhabitants of bateye living in extreme poverty San Pedro de Macoris (Agenzia Fides) - Among the sugar cane plantations, 70 kilometers east of Santo Domingo, Haitians and Dominicans survive thanks to humanitarian aid that covers most of the local population. 10% of th ...
• 26 March 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - The president of Caritas: Syrian refugees are more than 500 thousand Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian refugees who have found refuge in Jordan have already crossed the threshold of 500 thousand. This was reported to Fides Agency by Wael Suleiman, director of Caritas Jordan. "Every day," ...
• 26 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "Let us avoid the political crisis to become religious," said the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are again in a difficult moment in which the population is shunted from right to left," said Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, in an interview with Radio France International ...
• 26 March 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Plans to relocate refugees are unrealistic," said Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "IDP’s in Mogadishu live in difficult conditions, under threat of extortion and eviction" denounces the latest report of Caritas Somalia sent to Fides Agency. The report, while acknowledgin ...
• 25 March 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - 61 million children without education: Global Campaign for Education Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Without teachers school does not exist!" Is the motto of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) launched at the Global Action Week for school Education that is promoted each year with the aim to ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Romero was not a politician but a true pastor San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Romero was not a political figure, but a true pastor, because he lived preaching the Gospel, therefore it is not fair to make him a character linked to the political-party system," sa ...
• 25 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Seleka conquers the capital Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebel coalition Seleka entered Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. The advance of the rebels toward the capital began on March 22 (see Fides 22/03/2013) and ended yesterday, ...
• 25 March 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - 1500 children die every day due to preventable diseases Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - 25% of children in the age group between 0 and 5 in India die from causes related to diarrhea. For millions of people in the Asian country, the lack of water is a constant challenge. Two-third ...
• 25 March 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholics and Orthodox celebrate Easter according to the Julian calendar Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Most of the Catholic communities in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Cyprus are preparing to celebrate the liturgies of Holy Week not these days but in the first week of May, ac ...
• 25 March 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Gestures that are potentially prophetic" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) -The Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz and President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. José Maria Arancedo, said that the arrival of Pope Francis at the Chair of Peter, is an ...
• 25 March 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A secessionist group sows terror in Lubumbashi Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Several hundred armed men sowed terror in Lubumbashi, capital of Katanga in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo, before laying down their weapons in the local base of MONUSCO (UN Miss ...
• 23 March 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigration reform, perhaps even the support of the Pope Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The archbishop of Los Angeles, Mgr. Jose Gomez, has provided details of the meeting that a delegation of 15 U.S. religious leaders recently had with President Barack Obama on the reform of i ...