News

• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Crisis at the border with Haiti: Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for government intervention Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On the crisis and the tensions that are registered at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic "only the governments on both sides, Dominican and Haiti, can find a solution to t ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian leaders debate over the electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the electoral law with which the legislative elections will be celebrated scheduled for next spring, sees distinctions and second thoughts emerge even among Christian leaders. As le ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal of the Diocese of Zamora for the priest missing since December 27 Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican diocese of Zamora sent to Fides Agency an appeal to pray for Father Santiago, of whom we know nothing. Father Santiago Alvarez Figueroa, 27 years old, on 27 December went to celebrate ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Extreme poverty forces children to leave school in order to find a job Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Education penalized by poverty. This is the situation for almost 50% of elementary school students in Bangladesh who are forced by the overwhelming poverty to leave school before completing fifth ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christians among those killed in the attacks in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Dismay, grief, fear, prayer: These are the feelings lived by the small Christian community in the province of Quetta, after the wave of terrorist attacks which yesterday, only in the city of Que ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - The tragedy of women bought, sold, sexually abused Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of human trafficking continues to rise and poverty causes the sexual exploitation of women who are the most vulnerable group in Yemen. They are bought and sold throughout the country ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - A small community of the Diocese of Feng Xiang becomes a point of reference for evangelization Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Nan Guan of the deanery of Bao Ji, in the diocese of Feng Xiang of Shaan Xi province, is a small community of about 200 faithful, but shows remarkable capacity for evangelizatio ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Rebels accept "in principle" a cease-fire; the Bishops denounce the violence on both sides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the coalition Seleka have accepted the agreement in principle to a cease-fire for a week. The announcement was made in Libreville, capital of Gabon, which holds the peace talks betw ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new government is preparing the "tax hike" on religious communities Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The government of South Korea, led by the new President Park Geun-hye, of the Conservative Party Saenuri, is preparing to introduce, in the new tax law, which will be enacted at the end of January ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops denounce the "growing social disillusionment " and propose public education as a basis for development Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Panama have expressed their concerns about the "growing social disillusionment, consequence of the increase of stress, aggression, fear, political tension and an impairment loss of ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Battles between Malian army and rebels rage Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Konna, 70 km from Mopti (central Mali), is at the center of fighting between the Malian army and Islamist rebels who control the north of the country. "According to the latest informa ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The ecumenical sensitivity of Patriarch Tawadros approaches the creation of a Council of Christian Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new climate of openness and collaboration that has been recorded in recent months among the various Christian communities in Egypt could soon lead to the establishment of a Council of Christia ...
• 10 January 2013
  VATICAN - Pauline Jaricot, fruitful fidelity to Christ and farsighted commitment to evangelization Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "If St. Franesco Xavier was the enthusiastic missionary of evangelization, Jaricot was the one who saw in the support of evangelization 'an important duty of the People of God', which called for sp ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment of the Regional Episcopal Conference for the formation of priests and seminarians of the continent and for the Year of Faith Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment to support the training of priests and seminarians of the continent, the celebration of the Year of Faith and the examination of pastoral projects of 2013 were the main themes of ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The tragedy of child soldiers continues, forced to kill and sexually exploited Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,500 children have been recruited for armed conflict both by the Séléka Rebel Alliance troups, which already control 75% of the country, and forces of the Government of the Central Afric ...