News

• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Control and prevent outbreaks of cholera with a highly effective oral vaccine New York (Agenzia Fides) - An oral cholera vaccine proved to be 86 percent effective in controlling the disease during a recent outbreak in Guinea. Researchers with Epicentre, the research arm of the humanitarian organiz ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Disabled children integrated in public schools in the south-west area of the Country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru, in collaboration with Caritas Germany, has promoted the project "educational and social inclusion of children and young people with disabilities in the southwestern region of Peru". A ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - It is time to take action! More than 13 thousand children and young Hondurans at the U.S. Border Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Children should be in every policy decision and in all social action, we cannot destroy them with bad decisions", said the Vicar of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in Tegucigalpa, Fathe ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - An American missionary who dedicated her life to orphans in South Africa has been killed Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African police have arrested two men suspected of killing an 82-year-old U.S. religious, Sister Mary Paule Tacke, of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blo ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Confirmed: Christians are banned to use the name "Allah": for the Bishops "judges are not impartial" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Malaysia has confirmed the ban imposed on the Catholic weekly "Herald" to use the term "Allah" in its publications to refer to God. Thus the third degree of judgment co ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA - "Immigrants are transforming our Church", say the Catholic Bishops of North Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The issue of immigrants and migration was the focus of the work of the Conférence des Evêques de la Région Nord de l'Afrique (CERNA) which was held in Rome, from June 15 to 18. In the final stat ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Young people on hunger strike, the situation is still blocked Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - It has now been three days since 15 students have taken the decision to begin a hunger strike in the church of La Chiquinquira, in the area of La Florida in the capital Caracas, demanding the in ...
• 23 June 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The tragedy of child prostitution behind the glitz of the World Cup San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - The government has invested heavily in the construction and renovation of stadiums in the 12 cities which host the matches of the World Cup Brazil 2014, while a short distance from these beaut ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Archbishop Nona: statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed by Islamists, but the suffering of Christians must not become a pretext for propaganda Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, His Excellency Amel Shamon Nona, confirmed to Fides Agency the destruction of a statue of the Virgin Mary by the Sunni insurgents who have taken control of the ci ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - "Allah" issue: for Christian leaders "serious repercussions on religious freedom" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christian leaders gathered in the "Christian Federation of Malaysia", an interdenominational organization, express strong disappointment after the Supreme Court ruling that confirms the ban ...
• 20 June 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The Church has helped me to find a land": in Colombia 5.5 million internally displaced persons Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church has helped me to find a land, my land is now here in Colombia": is the testimony of Miodrag Jirsa, who comes from Yugoslavia and lives in the Latin American country as a refugee of wa ...
• 20 June 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A Catholic Dalit is Deputy Prime Minister of the new state of Telangana Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic doctor Thatikonda Rajaiah is the Deputy Prime Minister of the new Indian state of Telangana, newly established by the government of the Indian Union. As reported to Fides, th ...
• 20 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Missio-Aachen: a year dedicated to Pakistan Aachena (Agenzia Fides) - "The year 2014 is dedicated to Pakistan. Every year 'Missio' focuses on a reality with the dual aim of sensitizing the conscience of citizens in Europe and to launch special missionary cooperati ...
• 20 June 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: who boycots Parliament sessions to elect a new president places the Country at risk Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The choice of Lebanese MPs who boycot Parliament sessions convened for the election of the new President of the Nation, places Lebanon at a "great risk", particularly "amid the regional developm ...
• 20 June 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Here we are Lord, in the World Cup": special section on the website of the Catholic Bishops' Conference Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The joy and happiness of the people of Chile is the joy and hope of the Church. We are very pleased, and we thank God for this moment", said the spokesman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference o ...