News

• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Peace talks have been suspended after general abducted Chocó (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government has suspended peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), after an army general was taken captive, in the west of the country. Colombian President ...
• 17 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian arrested for blasphemy; investigation into the murder of Kasur continues Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Qaiser Ayub, 40, was arrested for an alleged case of blasphemy by the police in Lahore. The complaint was registered pursuant to art 295-C of the Penal Code (insulting the Prophet), ...
• 17 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO – Burkina Faso appoints transitional President Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - After 16 days since the fall of power, which lasted 27 years, of former President Blaise Compaoré, and the settlement of a military junta, a civilian was appointed ad interim President of B ...
• 17 November 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishops: not only tolerance but authentic fraternity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics are called to build "true brotherhood, based on love and mutual respect" in Indonesia: says the final message, written at the conclusion of the General Assembly of the Indonesian Bisho ...
• 17 November 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Stop to minerals of war: appeal to the European Union so that it strengthen controls Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Gold, tungsten, tin and coltan. These minerals are used in a wide range of industrial and commercial sectors including those of electronics and aerospace, which contribute to foment some of the ...
• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A project to spread Afro culture among children of Yungas communities La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Afrobo foundation, which deals with the protection of the rights of Afro Bolivian children of different Yungas communities, has implemented a project for the dissemination of afro cu ...
• 17 November 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church on the mega project of the Interoceanic Canal: "Everyone must be heard" Leon (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, has appealed to the government of Nicaragua so that it dialogues with farmer communities who have been protesting for two months against the planned ...
• 15 November 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - Families evicted from villages after converting to Christianity Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Seven Hmong Christians were arrested in the province of Luang Namtha, northern Laos, on November 2, after converting from animism to Christianity. As Fides learns, after a few days five of the ...
• 15 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A Comboni missionary found dead in a mass grave, among other bodies Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The body of Fr. John Ssenyondo, a Comboni missionary of Ugandan nationality, was found in a mass grave near the town of Chilapa, along with other dead bodies. This is confirmed to Fides by ...
• 15 November 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - 25 Christian families still in Raqqa. Obligation to pay a "protection tax" Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – In Raqqa, the city of northern Syria which has become a stronghold of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) since 2014, counts only 23 Christian families of the 1500 who lived there before the ...
• 15 November 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - "Network for a Culture of meeting", also Cusco present at the XIII Meeting of RIIAL Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - The XIII Continental Meeting of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL), an organization that relies on the support of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, takes pl ...
• 15 November 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle: "The Pope's visit, a blessing that invokes responsibility" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "The papal visit will surely bring much blessing to the Filipinos, especially to the poor, the survivors of recent natural and human-caused calamities, and the victims of injustices. The concern ...
• 14 November 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church online, in English and Spanish Washington (Agenzia Fides) - A publication on the Internet with over 700 pages, in English and Spanish, with a very clear index and a search engine to quickly find any word: is what the Episcopal Conference of the United ...
• 14 November 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Mobile sinks to counter Ebola Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - The initiatives to try to prevent the further spread of the Ebola virus and support the people affected by this terrible disease continue. According to the local newspaper Awoko, last October, ...
• 14 November 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The poor and vulnerable children in the Country seek refuge in Thailand Naypyidaw (Agenzia Fides) - In order to attend school, children in Myanmar are forced to emigrate on their own, without their parents, towards camps in the mountainous forests of Thailand. Decades of war and neglect have ...