News

• 13 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Kidnappings and threats against Christians in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Armed gangs of Islamic radical militants continue to terrorize the Christians of the district Essa Nagri, the largest Christian settlement in the city of Karachi, where about 50 thousand faithfu ...
• 13 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Give back the $ 4 billion stolen from the State" enjoins President Kiir to 75 officials Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Parliament of South Sudan has passed a resolution suspending 75 addressees of the letter from public office in which President Salva Kiir urges them to give back $ 4 billion stolen from state f ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Rights of children without protection: they work instead of playing, studying and resting La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty, migration, broken families are among the causes which force many children and teenagers to work. In Bolivia, there are 850 thousand boys, girls and teenage workers, accounting for 28% of ...
• 13 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 5 elements for sustainable development: Caritas Internationalis for Rio +20 Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - A call for a paradigm shift "toward a new civilization of love for humanity, which concentrates every action in the dignity and well-being of men and women": So says Caritas International ...
• 12 June 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Position and rights of disabled people in society and the Church: 30 years of service of "Faith and Light" Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The thirty years of service to disabled people on behalf of the community, "Faith and Light" in Hong Kong have always been inspired by one purpose: to give disabled people their position and r ...
• 12 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christian killed in Qusayr, where two priests confirm the ultimatum to Christians Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Maurice Bitar was killed in Qusayr, near the town of Homs where the Christian population - about a thousand people out of 10 thousand who lived there before the beginning of the vio ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We need a new pedagogy for evangelism," says the Archbishop of Concepcion Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - " Dios anda por estos lados, yo lo he visto" is the title of a photo exhibition organized by the Archbishop of Concepción, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Chomali, which will be presented soon in El ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Minors abandoned: more than one million poor children, deidicate themselves to begging and crime Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The reality of most Paraguayan children is very serious. Out of 2,500,000 children, 1,100,000 are poor. The situation gets more and more serious with the current change of season and cold weath ...
• 12 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Reconciliation": in Homs Syrian civil society take to the fields for a non-violent solution Homs (Agenzia Fides) – It is called "Mussalaha", which means "Reconciliation", and is an extraordinary non-violent popular initiative born in civil society in Homs, a city torn by conflict between the regular army and ...
• 12 June 2012
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - The Salafists are few but well organized Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The Salafists are few but are concentrated in crowds in the places where they stage their protests. In this sense they make a bad impression" says to Fides Agency Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Direc ...
• 12 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - At least two armed groups deployed against the independence of northern Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in northern Mali gets more and more complicated, which has been controlled for a few months by at least two rebel movements, the MNLA (National Liberation Movement of Azawad which p ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bombing of commercials and propaganda posters, but no-one explains the mechanism of voting Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Through the publishing of the weekly "Desde la Fe," of the Archdiocese of Mexico, the Catholic community criticized the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) as it does not explain to the citize ...
• 12 June 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni urges the community in Azerbaijan to become "Church-in-Mission" Baku (Agenzia Fides) – The need to pray for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life, the need to take good care of the family as a basic unit of society and the Church, the need to generate greater spirit of a ...
• 12 June 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Seven points of reference for the evangelization of every diocese in the Year of Faith Comayagüela (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Honduras, at the conclusion of the Ordinary Assembly which took place last week, sent to Fides a statement stressing that during this meeting, the situation of t ...
• 11 June 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope to the Bishops of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands: "In the work of evangelization ... continue to apply the eternal truths of the Gospel to the customs of the people whom you serve " Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The attention for the poor, the marginalized and the sick, especially those suffering from HIV/AIDS, and speaking publicly "as an objective moral voice on behalf of those in need ... in ord ...