News

• 25 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Every year a thousand Christian and Hindu girls suffer forced conversion to Islam and abuse Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – In Pakistan every year at least a thousand girls, from local Christian and Hindu communities are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. This was affirmed in a recent report produced ...
• 25 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Young Christian woman abducted and forced into Islamic marriage Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Fouzia, 25 year old Christian woman, married and mother of three children, was abducted on July 23 by Muhammad Nazir a Muslim aged 55, father of eight children. The man forced Fouzia to convert ...
• 24 July 2015
  ASIA/KOREA – Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon ASIA/KOREA – Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 23 July 2015, appointed Auxiliary of the diocese of Suwon (Korea) Rev. John Moon Hee Jong, paris ...
• 24 July 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Training to counter unemployment: 29 teachers receive diploma Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Despite a situation of war, 29 students at the Jean Paul II Teachers Training College in Bangui recently received their diploma and will soon start work in schools in Central Africa where teach ...
• 24 July 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Parishes shelter demonstrators demanding solutions to the mining question AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Parishes shelter demonstrators demanding solutions to the mining question Potosì (Agenzia Fides) – Clashes between the Bolivian government and trade unionists groups in Potosì, demanding safety ...
• 24 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – School instruction during emergency situations a basic humanitarian necessity Juba (Agenzia Fides) – In South Sudan school instruction for girls is particularly difficult: early pregnancies or marriage, poverty and gender discrimination prevent many girls from regular attendance at school. Fight ...
• 24 July 2015
  AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Working at prevention” can put an end to violence, says Bishop Peña Rodríguez Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Dominican Republic, Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, has launched a proposal to focus on prevention in order to addres ...
• 24 July 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND – Jesuits provide assistance for women refugees victims of violence and human trafficking Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) –Women refugees from Asian and African countries such as Pakistan or Somalia, reach Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. They have experienced situations of war, sexual abuse and systematic oppress ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/CHINA – China’s six major seminaries offer 79 new workers for the Lord’s vineyard Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The six major seminaries in mainland China authorised by the authorities recently ended the academic year with the conferral of the baccalaureate upon 79 seminarians at the end of a first cyc ...
• 23 July 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mission Campaign 2015: material ready Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - “Mission is to serve” is the Theme chosen in Brazil for this year’s Mission Campaign 2015 (see Fides 28/04/2015), which will culminate with the missionary month of October and World Missi ...
• 23 July 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru and Brazil together to eradicate child labour in Amazonia Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – The governments of Peru and Brazil are launching a campaign to promote the eradication of child labour in Amazonia. On August 8 in Iquitos, the largest city in Peru’s Amazon region, there wi ...
• 23 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Trafficking of human persons, "flourishing business on the increase” EUROPE/SPAIN – Trafficking of human persons, "flourishing business on the increase” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Trafficking of human persons moves between 7,000 and 10,000 million dollars a year; some 2 million child ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Minor Christian girl sold and abused Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Tarfa Younis a twelve year old Christian orphan girl was sold to 55 year old Bashir a Muslim and repeatedly raped. Fides heard from “The Voice”, organisation, founded and directed by lawyer ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Also in Kirkuk expropriation of Christian homes Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – Now also in Kirkuk in the province of which it is the principal city, many properties and homes belonging to Christian citizens are being taken from the legitimate owners by means of falsified ...
• 23 July 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Some 16 months since the epidemic outbreak, Ebola still not under control Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – New cases of Ebola reported in Liberia and Guinea are spreading the fear that the virus could cross the border into Guinea-Bissau. A warning has been issued by the international chairman of Do ...