News

• 18 January 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Widespread religious violence in Indonesia Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Intolerance and violence on religious basis are increasingly common in the Indonesian territory: in 2013 there were 222 incidents of violence that took place in 20 provinces, 7 more compared to ...
• 18 January 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Geneva 2" Conference: the World Council of Churches calls for an immediate truce Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – In the Syrian conflict "there is no military solution"; "an immediate cessation of all hostilities and armed clashes on the Syrian territory" is urgent; humanitarian assistance must be ensured; ...
• 17 January 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - "Heart to Heart": a heart that continues to beat to support the vocational path Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Heart to Heart" is the name of the Group that supports vocations in the parish of Bei Tang of the Archdiocese of Shaan Xi, in mainland China, born in 2009. According to information collected by ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - 68 thousand children vaccinated against measles in the IDP camps in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Extreme violence in the capital of the Central African Republic continues. Attacks, lynchings, looting and reprisals happen every day. One hundred thousand displaced persons live in the M'Poko ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian leaders: "It is an abomination to see a political struggle turned into an ethnic war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We are heart-broken to see what was purely a political problem in the ruling party, SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement), quickly slides into an ethnic one on a rapid and frightening scale", ...
• 17 January 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Women prisoners in the house: illiterate, poor and marginalized Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The current conditions of poverty, violence and discrimination in Iraq weigh more on women who, in a male-dominated society, just look after children and the home. Most are illiterate, and become ...
• 17 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal for the people of Tierra Caliente, "chastised by the scourge of fratricidal and absurd violence" Michoacán (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who have followed the escalation of violence in Michoacán know perfectly well that the bloody war among criminals, with wounded bodies and horror, was the conclusion of the classic 'n ...
• 17 January 2014
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Hery Rajaonarimampianina is the new Head of State Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Hery Rajaonarimampianina is the new President of Madagascar. This was officially declared on January 17 by the President of the Special Electoral Court (CES), which rejected the appeal pres ...
• 17 January 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Campaign to abolish torture, often used against detainees for religious and political reasons Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The torture of prisoners, particularly prisoners for religious and political reasons, is still widely used in Vietnam. In 2013, the torture suffered by people held for their moral and political be ...
• 17 January 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Birth of the "Christian women’s Movement" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – To launch a message of emancipation and woman’s dignity; rediscover the fundamental role of women in the Church, coming out of the cliché of subordination or inferiority complexes; emphas ...
• 17 January 2014
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cooperation projects in a different Cuba Holguin (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the American diocese of Chicago, His Exc. Mgr. John Manz, from Cuba, where he is on a visit to strengthen cooperation, said that "interaction is the best way to improve respect for ...
• 16 January 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Children subject of rights: an obligation for all States Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The website of the "Information System on early childhood" in Latin America (SIPI) has been updated. SIPI is a system oriented to satisfy the rights of early childhood in the continent. The ...
• 16 January 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The 8000 Dakar missionaries committed to bringing "the joy of the Gospel" everywhere, Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 8000 children and young people of the Archdiocese of Dakar gathered on Sunday 12th January, on the feast of the Baptism of Jesus, at the National Shrine of Popenguine in the sign of ...
• 16 January 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Young Christian killed and beheaded by jihadists Homs (Agenzia Fides) - Islamist groups have killed and beheaded a young Christian man, seriously wounding another. The incident, which occurred on 8 January, was reported to Fides only now by a priest in the diocese of H ...
• 16 January 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Rehabilitation center for child soldiers who escaped from the guerrillas Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In the last 15 years there have been thousands of children and child soldiers who have managed to escape the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). Ma ...