News

• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New law on religious freedom? The Church disagrees Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, has asked Parliament to review the draft of a new law on religious freedom: the measure - which should serve to protect the Muslim minority, victims of viole ...
• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Neither Geagea, nor Aoun. For Patriarch Rai the new President must be a "figure of consensus" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, forsees that the next President of Lebanon will not be Michel Aoun or Samir Geagea, the two most well-known Christian leaders linke ...
• 11 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic media practitioners have been called upon to use their profession to bring an end to communal clashes and violence in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray you come out with the best approach of using communication in different and diverse cultures to curb the very spate of communal clashes and violence in Nigeria". This call was made by the ...
• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The government also puts a priest in the list of "terrorist" because he defends the Tamil Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the decision of the UN Human Rights Council to start an investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka - after thousands of complaints from individuals, local organizations, churches, ...
• 11 April 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on Sunday Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - As many as 775,500 voters out of a population of 1.6 million will cast ballots in an election that was delayed twice, according to the United Nations Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea Bi ...
• 10 April 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - A march for the freedom of 5 peasants on hunger strike, accused of the Curuguaty massacre Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 people, including religious, supporters and relatives of the five peasants arrested two years ago and are still awaiting trial, marched on the evening of April 8 from the Cathedra ...
• 10 April 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The president of Caritas Lebanon: the international community has to open refugee camps in Syria Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has reached an unsustainable threshold for Lebanon, equal to 25/30 per cent of the population present on the national territory. The global and regional ...
• 10 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Solidarity Visit to Bangui of a U.S. interfaith delegation Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, April 8, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Rashad Hussain traveled to the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) with an interreligious delegation of leaders fr ...
• 10 April 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A functional and "colorful" pediatrics ward for children in the new hospital in Pujehun Pujehun (Agenzia Fides) - The new hospital in Pujehun, in the southern district in Sierra Leone, was built in 2010, where there is a maternity and pediatrics ward. Along the way you will find the Main Hospital, which is ...
• 10 April 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - There is growing concern about the influx of refugees from Central Africa Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing concern in Cameroon for the influx of refugees from the neighboring Central African Republic in the department of Mayo- Rey, in the north of the Country. Thousands of refugees, ...
• 10 April 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni closes the conference "Listening to America": "We have become a Church that listens, a Church that travels with God's people who live in America" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Three intense days to listen carefully to a plural continent, full of hope and contradictions. A complex continent, inhabited by many peoples and cultures": with these words Cardinal Ferna ...
• 10 April 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - For the Bishop of Posadas: "Lynchings, a serious social problem to be solved together" Posadas (Agenzia Fides) - After the recent gang violence against suspected criminals that is taking place in different parts of Argentina (see Fides 03/04/2014), His Exc. Mgr. Juan Ruben Martinez, Bishop of the Diocese o ...
• 10 April 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Democrats win: high hopes for Christians after the general election Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections will give us the hope of a better country, in all its aspects: for democracy, for human rights, religious tolerance, for the socio-economic development. In the Catholic Church and ...
• 9 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Death of the Chaldean Patriarch emeritus Emmanuel III Delly. Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans died in a hospital in San Diego (California). He was 87 years old. The news was given by sources of the Chaldean Churc ...
• 9 April 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church invites us to be in solidarity with the victims of the rains, Neuquen is the most affected area Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the climate emergency that the city of Neuquén is living following the heavy rains in recent days, many families in our neighborhoods have been displaced and many others have suffered s ...