News

• 3 April 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - In Gao the church and the Caritas local office were destroyed, the 200 remaining Christians fear for their fate Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Mali says its local office in Gao in northern Mali was destroyed along with the local church after Tuareg rebels seized the city at the weekend. This was reported by Caritas Mali in a sta ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA-Christians and NGOs to the UN: Stop to the gulag in North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations are asked to help North Korea to close forever the vast gulag system in the country: is what is asked, in a petition today to the UN Council for Human Rights, on behalf of over ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA - Over 50 million people in Muslim countries suffered serious damage in 2011 Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - At the International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition, the recent meeting held in Dubai, sources of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said that disasters and cri ...
• 3 April 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - 25 deaths per month due to the war of "blood minerals" in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In recent months, national and foreign armed groups still present in Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have resumed and intensified their military activities. This is revealed i ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Cathedral is still occupied, dialogue has been interrupted for the "Easter holidays" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Escobar Alas, complained that for the past three months, the Metropolitan Cathedral has been occupied by a group of ex-combatants, which d ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - Good Friday as a public holiday and a Cardinal Ortega’s message broadcast on national television Havana (Agenzia Fides) - With the churches that were overflowing with people, the Cubans began Holy Week in a more relaxed climate. Not only the announcement that Friday will be a public holiday on the island was made, b ...
• 3 April 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - To guide and protect the poor children of Abancay, giving them the human dignity Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - Children's Abancay has recently been presented, a non-profit association destined to guide and protect children in the city of Abancay, state capital of Apurimac, Peru. The Congregation of the D ...
• 2 April 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU-The Bishops call to live Holy Week as a "Week of Reconciliation" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "During Holy Week, we are called to live more intensely, our faith, renewing it in prayer, fasting, charity, listening of the Word of God. In this atmosphere of faith and hope, we prepare ourselv ...
• 2 April 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS-60 families still waiting to bury their loved ones who died in the prison in Comayagua Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice, Peace and Love" are the words written on a mural that depicts the Virgin of Suyapa which occupies one wall of the sports Leon Alvarado Institute of the city of Comayagua. These thr ...
• 2 April 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - To celebrate Easter, Christians occupy a requisitioned church Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – It is an act of extreme and risky protest, because the faithful might soon be arrested: yesterday, April 1, Palm Sunday, a group of Laotian Christians in the village of Kengweng in the pro ...
• 2 April 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Minorities and civilian victims of armed Salafist gangs: No to "religious war" Kusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In Kusayr, a large village near Homs, on the border with Lebanon the ethnic minorities and religious such as Alawites, Christians, Shiites have been subjected to violence and atrocities perpetrat ...
• 2 April 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The rebel advance, the fear in Mopti grows Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "A growing fear among the residents of Mopti and the rebels comes to conquer the city, many people are fleeing " Church sources in Mali told Fides, where rebels of the Movement of National Libera ...
• 2 April 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - To awaken with major ardor the missionary task: all communities prepare the third National Missionary Congress Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The main activity that involves the Pontifical Mission of Brazil in this period is the preparation of the third National Missionary Congress, on the theme: "Missionary discipleship in Brazil fo ...
• 2 April 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Observers divided over the candidacy of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in the presidential elections Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim Brotherhood's decision to present its own candidate in the presidential elections in Egypt is dividing the local and international commentators. On Sunday, 1 April, the Brotherhood lea ...
• 2 April 2012
  VATICAN - WYD 2013 in Rio de Janeiro "aims at increasing young people's faith in the world for mission" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "This World Youth Day (WYD) 2013 in Rio is situated in the context of the Continental Mission wanted in the meeting of the Bishops of CELAM in Aparecida in 2007. At the universal Church lev ...