News

• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Supreme Court appeals for a new report, but "there is still no justice for Christians in Orissa" Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for Christians in Orissa affected by violence is still far off, despite faint steps forward. The Supreme Court has officially asked the National Commission for Human Rights to submit wi ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Christians discriminated and persecuted find asylum in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) – Pakistani Christians, victims of violence, discrimination and persecution, are welcomed and may extend asylum in India and get Indian citizenship: is what the Indian Ministry of the Interior has d ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Stop the violence, the causes are not only religious": statement from the Archbishop of Jos Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "The cycle of violence resulting in killings, bloodshed and the destruction of people’s hard earned means of livelihood in Jos and environs is, to say the least, very disturbing, a source of great ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Young Christians protect Muslims in prayer and looking forward to celebrating Eid, at the end of Ramadan Jayapura (Agenzia Fides ) - Young Christians from Papua are committed today as sentinels to guarantee security to all the Muslim communities who are praying and fasting for the end of Ramadan and to ensure that the celeb ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Millions of children are not registered at birth and remain without any assistance Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years since the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 12 million people are still deprived of citizenship. According to the UN Agency for Refugees, most of them live in Asia. The o ...
• 31 August 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Secretary General of PSMC visits Argentina for the first time Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PSMC) Baptistine Ralamboarison, visited Argentina for the first time since starting the job. According to informatio ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in Quetta: "Terrorism does not cease, Eid is a day of peace" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "A day of peace and celebration was transformed in a day of mourning and disaster. We must unite the efforts of Muslim and Christian citizens and all people of good will against terrorism", said ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "There are problems, but I am confident that reconciliation will prevail", says Mgr.Martinelli Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The feeling that I had already expressed, for more relaxation and peace is strengthened in light of the fact that from what I have been told, the road links between Tripoli and Tunisia have become ...
• 31 August 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We ask the intercession of John Paul II for peace in Mexico": the pilgrimage of the relics begins Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Mexico presented the program of activities that will take place from September 5 to 9, on the occasion of the veneration of the relics of Blessed John Paul II: "it is an oc ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Alarm regarding drug use among children Port Louis (Agenzia Fides) - Drug dealing does not seem to cease on the island of Mauritius and is a growing concern among social workers and service centers for the increasing use of drugs among children and young peop ...
• 30 August 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The diocese of Jin Zhong welcomes three new priests on the feast of St. Bartholomew Yu Ci (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful from the Diocese of Jin Zhong in Shan Xi province, received with great enthusiasm and joy three new priests on August 24, the day the Church remembers St. Bartholomew, Apostl ...
• 30 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Mission Year": focus on the role of Christians and rights for religious minorities Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Rights, freedom, the role of Christians in the Pakistani society, the fight against extremism, evangelism, inter-religious harmony: these are the central themes of the Mission Year launched by t ...
• 30 August 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Solidarity on behalf of Cardinal Terrazas with the brothers of Tipnis who are protesting for the construction of the highway Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - During his homily last Sunday, August 28, Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, asked everyone’s solidarity for all the brothers who are leading a march against the constructio ...
• 30 August 2011
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA-Almost half of those enrolled in Catholic schools do not come from Catholic families Adelaide (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent survey by Advertiser on AdelaideNow, about 20,000 of the 48,783 southern Australian students enrolled in Catholic schools do not belong to the Catholic Church: it is a fig ...
• 30 August 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL-Another native has died because of violence, the denunciation on behalf of IMIC Cachoeirinha (Agenzia Fides) - An indigenous youth involved in the attack against the school bus in Terena de Cachoeirinha has died. On June 3, 2011 an incendiary bottle was launched against the school bus with 30 high s ...