News

• 21 March 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We are coming to get your head": threats to the priest who accepts migrants Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) - "We are coming to get your head", with these words on behalf of strangers over the phone and then reported by a terrified immigrant used as an emissary, is how father Fray Tomás González was ...
• 21 March 2013
  EUROPE - "Compassion and righteousness in finance": financial advisers welcome the Pope London (Agenzia Fides) - "Society is crying out for compassion in finance", says a message of congratulations sent to Pope Francis from the "Association of Christian Financial Advisers" (ACFA), based in London. The Assoc ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - More than 3,000 children forced to work in caves to pay for college and help families Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children in Sierra Leone are forced to break rocks with a hammer to pay for their studies and to help their families make ends meet. It is the sad reality, quite usual in the count ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Monsignor Romero, 33 years after his death the cause of beatification advances San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The week to commemorate the 33 years of the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero continues. He was assassinated on March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass in the cha ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty in the country is three times higher than that of Chile and Uruguay Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - According to a report released by the research center Idesa Argentina, in Peru, poverty has been reduced from 49% to 28% of the population, in Chile from 21% to 11%, in Uruguay from 9 % to 8%. I ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Hopes and interrogatives after the surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, leader of a faction of the M23, who on March 18 surrendered to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is ...
• 20 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders defend Christians: the abuse of blasphemy is to be punished Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Punishing abuse and exploitation linked to the controversial blasphemy law is an urgent need for the respect of law and the rule of law in Pakistan: this was said by Muslim leaders who met in pas ...
• 20 March 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Commission "Justice and Peace" to Obama: respect for international law and fight illegal policies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Barack Obama’s visit in the Middle East - which began today, Wednesday, March 20 with the arrival in Israel - the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Assembly of Catholi ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Kano, " persecutions and martyrdom are concrete realities for many Christians in Nigeria " Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Boko Haram religious sect forms the most comprehensive and extensive challenge to our national life and religious freedom in Nigeria." This was stated by Mgr. John Niyiring, Bishop of Kano, a ...
• 20 March 2013
  AMERICA/CUBA - Good Friday: granted non-working day Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - For the second consecutive year, a government decree gives Cubans a festive day in Holy Week after decades due to tensions with the Catholic Church, the Havana government had canceled religious ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A Day dedicated to Girls and Indigenous Children Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 18, Girls and Indigenous Children Day of Venezuela is celebrated. This annual event is dedicated to the 41 indigenous communities in the Latin American country as a sign of recogn ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Why are we not able to live in peace?" Asks the Archbishop of Medellin Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of a violent weekend in which 31 people were killed, the Archbishop of Medellin, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Antonio Tobon Restrepo, expressed his concern regarding the violence that plagu ...
• 18 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - New violence against religious while the rebels threaten to march on the capital Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A religious was assaulted last week in the village of Bangao (80 km from Bambari in the Central African Republic) from the rebel coalition Seleka. According to testimonies collected by the Rése ...
• 18 March 2013
  AMERICA - From CELAM to Pope Francis: "Let us always remember the call to mission. Bishop and people" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We lived through the experience of his choice in an atmosphere of episcopal collegiality. This fact filled us with a deep joy for what it represents for the universal Church, and especially for ...
• 18 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy and forced conversion: two young Christians rescued Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian teenager Ryan Stanton, victim of false accusations of blasphemy, was rescued and taken abroad with his family. A Christian girl, Rafia Mansha, 14, kidnapped by a Muslim and forced i ...