News

• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Femicide continues to spread: nearly 4000 women were killed between 2002 and 2013 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in Honduras is the result of an average of 15 murders a day, attributed to several reasons, and puts the Country among the most violent in the world where there remains a serious si ...
• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The theme of the 97th Episcopal Assembly: "Encourage evangelization of cultures" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are eager to hear representatives of society, who during this Plenary Assembly will be artists, journalists, businessmen and a politicians. Representatives of indigenous peoples, a migr ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Bishops alarm: "The political situation is serious; the democratic climate is deteriorating day by day" Niamey (Agenzia Fides ) - "The current political situation is serious and the democratic climate that seemed clear after the success of the last election, is deteriorating day by day", say the Bishops of Niger in a messa ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Intimidation and abuse of Christians in Orissa: homes destroyed, faithful thrown out Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians who survived the violence in 2008 cannot find peace and are still today victims of abuse and intimidation: this is what was said by Fr. Ajay Kumar Singh, a Catholic priest i ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections among violence and attacks. Patriarch Sako: The policies of the West are due to the diaspora of Middle Eastern Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open seats, despite the strict security ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child soldiers leave school to "avenge" their parents' death Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Oil interests and the politics of the area, in force since the colonial era, have generated great division and hatred among the people of Sudan. In an endless cycle of violence and thousands of dis ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Assiut. Two Christians killed Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Two Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on Tuesday, April 29th due to sectarian clashes which broke out in villages in the area of the city of Assiut, Upper Egypt, due to the contrasts between ...
• 30 April 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - First Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The first Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 12 to 16 May 2014 in Panama. As Fides learns, the event is organized by several Catholic groups that have ...
• 29 April 2014
  VATICAN CITY - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies begins May 5 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The greetings and the Report of His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, Secretary-Adjunct of th ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL ARICAN REPUBLIC - Sixteen unarmed civilians, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Borders, killed at Boguila Hospital Boguila (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, dozens of heavily armed Muslim rebels opened fire in a hospital in Central African Republic, killing at least 16 people, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Bor ...
• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC thanks Pope Francis for his interest regarding peace talks Havana (Agenzia Fides) - FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) have asked the Catholic Church to continue to follow, thanks to the encouragement expressed by Pope Francis, the peace talks being held in Havana, wi ...
• 29 April 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Lawyers and Islamic activists contest the application of the Sharia law to non-Muslims Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - A clause in Aceh's new Islamic criminal procedural codes, finally approved in February could see non-Muslims tried in Sharia Court (see Fides 15/02/2014 ), but lawyers, legal experts and huma ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Human trafficking, especially children, in Goma", denounces the local civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A network of human traffickers, most of whom are children, work in Goma, capital of North Kivu (in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The complaint, in a note sent to Fides Agency, is b ...
• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - International organizations committed to solving the new political crisis Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides ) - Yesterday, April 28 a delegation of the "Club of Madrid" met Prime Minister of Haiti Laurent Lamothe, with whom they discussed the need to hold elections this year, surpassing the new po ...
• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million child workers, and 27% suffer from extreme poverty Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Children's Day, established by the United Nations on 30 April, the Mexican authorities have committed themselves to strengthening the struggle for the defense of children' ...