News

• 6 August 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Mgr. Farrell remembers Catholics the duty to welcome foreigners Dallas (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment on behalf of public figures is not new to American history", said the Bishop of Dallas (Texas, USA), His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Joseph Farrell in his column ...
• 6 August 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Child labor: illegal but cheap in a Country with 8 million working children Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - With 200,000 inhabitants, Korail is one of the largest slums of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. Among its labyrinthine streets, mud and garbage, there are thousands of homes of just 10 square meters ...
• 5 August 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The "Water project" for Aleppo to provide water to the martyred Syrian city has concluded Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Aleppo has again been without water since 31 July. A heat wave is expected for this week that will bring the temperature up to 45 degrees", said a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by the NGO "Le ...
• 5 August 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentina recalls the murder of Mgr. Angelelli who opposed to dictatorship La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The murder of Mgr. Enrique Angelelli, Bishop of La Rioja in 1976, was recalled on August 4 with a Mass in the Diocese of La Rioja (north-west of Argentina), with a huge number of comments on so ...
• 5 August 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops praise Obama's plan to cutt carbon dioxide emissions Miami (Agenzia Fides) - "An important step to protect the health of all, especially of children, the elderly, the poor and vulnerable communities, from pollution and the harmful effects of climate change", said His Exc. ...
• 5 August 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Thousands of victims because of heavy flooding Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese government has declared a state of calamity in the central and western regions of Myanmar's Chin, Rakáin, Magwe and Sagaing, the most severely affected by the floods that continue to ...
• 5 August 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Rain and wind storms are causing severe damage in South Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - A downpour has destroyed more than 100 houses in a camp for the displaced near Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. El Salam camp spokesman told the local radio station Radio Dabanga that the rains ...
• 5 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The government of Juba rejects IGAD's peace plan, criticized by many Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The government of South Sudan has refused the peace plan presented by IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the organization that brings together the Countries of the Horn of Africa), c ...
• 4 August 2015
  ASIA/INDIA – Over half a million children engaged in risky work in cotton fields New Deli (Agenzia Fides) – The number of children working in cotton fields continues to rise. According to a survey by the Indo-Dutch Committee and the private body Stop Child Labour Coalition, in India this activit ...
• 4 August 2015
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA –La Negrita celebrations: the local Catholic Church calls for intervention in favour of the family Cartago (Agenzia Fides). “It is our duty to sensitise our people regarding certain important issues; we cannot be indifferent to situations which are painful and shameful for a country like ours ", said Bishop Gabriel ...
• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Night shooting in the capital, human rights activist wounded Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“There was shooting throughout the night in Bujumbura and it continued in certain districts until 9am. It is not yet known if anyone was injured or killed” Fides learned from local sources i ...
• 4 August 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA – Bishops launch the African Year of Reconciliation Accra (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa launched an African Year of Reconciliation during celebrations for the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Symposium of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa ...
• 4 August 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLICA - “Haiti refuses to help its own emigrants to regularise their status ” Dominican Republic intellectuals claim Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) –Tension grows among the Haitians resident in the Dominican Republic because the Haiti government refuses entrance to its own citizens residing illegally in the neighbour coun ...
• 3 August 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - “Abortion is never therapeutic”: local Catholic Church attacks Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) – “We urge all authorities to safeguard every human person, in particular the weakest and most vulnerable, to love and respect them as a mother loves her child.”. This was said in ...
• 3 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - General Nshimirimana killed: fighting within the government or rebel ambush? Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“At the moment the situation in Bujumbura is quiet ” local sources in the capital of Burundi, told Fides the day after the killing of general Adolphe Nshimirimana, considered second in comma ...