News

• 13 March 2012
  AFRICA - The "Tripoli Plan" for the security of North Africa and the Sahara Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - An important meeting of the Ministers of Interior of the nine Countries of North Africa and the Sahelo-Saharan area (Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Chad, Niger , Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Sudan) was ...
• 13 March 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Justice and Peace," asks an effort for a second round of peaceful elections and without fraud Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission "Justice and Peace" has launched an appeal for the second round of Senegalese presidential elections to take place peacefully. On March 25, voters will be asked to choose ...
• 12 March 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - A million people suffer from hunger, a soup kitchen for children from poorer families has been opened Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - One million people in Spain suffer from hunger, and the phenomenon seems to be even more severe among children. To cope with this emergency, the Association Mensajeros de la Paz, founded and dire ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Respect for human rights: why is it applied selectively?", Asks the Apostolic Vicar Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The West always remember not to do unto others what you do not want others do unto you",: with these words, remembering a "motto of the Holy Scripture", Mgr. Joseph Nazzaro, OFM, Apostolic Vicar ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Every penny saved can be useful for the mission": the testimony of the life of Fr. John Chen, who died at age 88 An Guo (Agenzia Fides) - "He was a true priest, a true religious and true man of God", "his testimony was given with his own life", "he was salt and yeast, as recommended by the Lord", "his life is a crystal decorated wi ...
• 12 March 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "The God of life does not want death": the appeal of Cardinal Terrazas after the recent episodes of violence Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - We are called to urgent and concrete answers to everything that is opposed to life, because God's Word is clear when he says "Thou shalt not kill". In this, God is determined, clear and preci ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of "Maria Goretti Pakistani": released the man accused of murder Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The police station in Sadar Samundari near Faisalabad, has released the 28-year old Muhammad Gujjar Arif, of Samundari, alleged murderer of Amariah Mansha, an18-year-old Catholic who was brut ...
• 12 March 2012
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus recalls that "violence never serves humanity, it only dehumanizes" and launches an appeal for Madagascar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Commenting on the Gospel passage of the third Sunday of Lent, the story of Jesus’ action throwing out of the temple animal sellers and money-changers from the temple of Jerusalem (cf. Jn ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/YEMEN - African migrants tortured by human traffickers until their ransom is paid Hajjah (Agenzia Fides) - The discovery of 70 men and women battered, held prisoners in Hajjah, a remote area of the Governorate of Yemen near the Saudi border, led to an investigation into the torture and blackmail Afric ...
• 12 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We knew that sooner or later the instability of the northern Countries of Nigeria would have reached us, but not in such a tragic manner", said Mgr. Onaiyekan Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who commit these attacks do not think in a rational way, and it is therefore difficult to find a logic. To expect to transform Nigeria into an Islamic State with violence is a completely ins ...
• 12 March 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Caritas Campaign against violence, to respect the dignity and human rights Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign launched by Caritas at a national level, intends to recover in Honduras those deep Christian values such as respect for human dignity and human rights, tolerance, solidarity and ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The massacre of Kandahar "plays into the hands of the Taliban": Civil society calls for justice and transparency Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacre in Kandahar is a sad episode that we cannot ignore. We want guarantees that that this does not happen again. Afghan society experienced a day of profound mourning for the crime again ...
• 12 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacre of Jos: "the Boy Scouts prevented the car bomb to pounce upon the faithful in church," says Archbishop Jos (Agenzia Fides) - The Boy Scouts managed to prevent the suicide attack on Sunday, March 11 against the church in St. Finbarr, in Jos, capital of Plateau State, in the west of Nigeria which could have had even more se ...
• 10 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Vicar: "Kofi Annan come without prejudice or pre-packaged instructions" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – There is a chance for peace in Syria if there is an observer like Kofi Annan "listen and enter into the psychology of the Syrian people", says to Fides the Franciscan Fr. Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM, ...
• 10 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Re-evaluate the role of women in the Peruvian Amazon: An exhibition of missionaries Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Centro Cultural Jose Pio Aza, of the Order of the Dominicans, has organized the photo exhibition "The Amazon with a Woman’s face". As reported to Fides by a note from the Peruvian Episcopal C ...