News

• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters storm Christian school Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks protesting against the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" for publishing blasphemous cartoons of the prophet Mohammed stormed a Chri ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The story of a missionary: Malawi on its knees due to the damage caused by cyclones Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Cyclones of the Mozambique Channel have brought devastation in Malawi", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary who for decades has lived and worked in Malawi. "In ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops to the government: "To support a secular India and respectful of the rights" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is important to support the secularism of the Indian nation and together build a nation in which the rights and freedoms of every person are respected: is what the Bishops write to the In ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian aid denied in conflict areas: MSF forced to close activities Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - Because access to people trapped in conflict areas has been systematically denied by the authorities in Sudan, the Brussels-based operational centre of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announce ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops denounce: "Land grabbing threatens the stability of the Country" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Land grabbing can lead to a break up in the country" warn the Bishops of Southern Sudan. According to Catholic Radio Network (CRN), at the end of the plenary meeting of the local Episcopal Confere ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Court orders the return of land to a Christian Foundation Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Istanbul Administrative Court ordered the restitution of property rights of a large plot of land to the sira Kadim Meryemana Foundation, linked to the Syrian Orthodox Church, land which had bee ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/TAIWAN - X Congress of the Word of God in Chinese Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Witnessing the Word of God, a new Evangelization - Pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved (Mt 9:17)": was the theme of the X world Congress of the Word of God in Chinese, he ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - "We have lost a great opportunity": criticism regarding the Law on Education Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Chile, through its Commission for Education, is disappointed that the new Law on Education recently approved by Congress, does not address issues related to governmen ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal battle for the custody of the children of the Christian couple burned alive Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five different applications have been lodged at the Court of Lahore demanding custody of the three children of Shama and Shahzad Masih, the Christian couple accused of blasphemy and burned alive ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Remove a cross in the state of Chin": the order worries Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Burmese state of Chin (in western Myanmar) has ordered the removal, by 30 January, of a 16-meter-high cross, located on a hill in the city of Hakha. As Fides learns, the ordi ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - US Senators: The United States have to encourage the creation of a province for Christians in the Nineveh Plain Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of suffering experienced by Christians and other minorities forced to flee from Nineveh Plain raises "serious concern", to the point of asking the US State Department to "suppor ...
• 29 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "We pay tribute to the consecrated who founded the local Church" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Consecrated men and women established the local Church in our dioceses and most of our parishes, serving people of every background in countless ways", say the Bishops of the Southern Afri ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The country remembers "the Bishop of the Indios" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador is celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Mgr. Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba, the "Bishop de los Indios", as he was called by everyone in the Latin American country, who dedicated ...
• 29 January 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly 50 000 children victims of homicide because of armed conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - More than two million children are victims of violence in Colombia: abused and displaced. According to a document published by the Victims Unit, sent to Agenzia Fides, currently 2,182,707 child ...
• 29 January 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of Bishop of Lolo and appointed of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 January 2015, The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Lolo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by His Exc. Mgr. Ferdinand Maemba Liwo ...