News

• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - New violence and arbitrary arrests against Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - New violence against Christian communities in different places in India: As reported to Fides by the "All India Christian Council" (AICC) – a coalition that unites Christians of different de ...
• 11 October 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence against civilians in the territory of Masisi Masisi (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, September 27 armed groups clashed in the area of Osso - Banyungu, near Masisi, province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There were also attacks against civilians in ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Confidence in the future of the country, the Bishops call for a free and responsible election San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) – Just over a month since the presidential election, the Episcopal Conference of Honduras has asked the Honduran people to go to the polls "without pressure or threats, without selling th ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Children in Christ, firm in Faith", 20,000 letters to the Pope for the National Day of Missionary Childhood Juticalpa (Agenzia Fides) - On October 20, the National Day of Missionary Childhood will conclude. Among the initiatives of the Diocese of Juticalpa, the department of Olancho, the largest in Honduras, the authorities h ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Water should not be anyone's privilege": the first congress for water in Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than a hundred people gathered yesterday, 10 October, to attend the opening of the "First Cabildo for Water", a meeting organized by the Coalition for the Defence of Water and Life. The ev ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: does not want a "Kurdish State" in the Syrian province of Jazira Hassaké (Agenzia Fides ) - "The only ones who want to create a Kurdish autonomous region in northern Syria are the militants of the PKK, the Abdullah Ocalan party. But the project does not even receive acclaim from othe ...
• 11 October 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Soddo Vatican City ( Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, on 11 October 2013, appointed Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Soddo (Ethiopia) Rev.do Tsegaye Keneni Dérera of the clergy of Addis Ababa, Vicar General of the Apost ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders work for peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal and a shared commitment "to work together in order to build security and peace in Myanmar" was launched by the Burmese religious leaders of different faiths, at the conclusion of ...
• 10 October 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA – Doctors on strike stop the country, the mediation of the Church is requested Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Revolutionary Party (DRP) has called for the intervention of the Catholic Church in Panama to mediate in the conflict between the government and doctors who have been on strike for ...
• 10 October 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - "Pacem in Terris" in Japanese infects society Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - 50 years after its publication, the encyclical "Pacem in Terris", which Pope John XXIII addressed to the Church and all people of good will, is very modern and is experiencing a "second childhood ...
• 10 October 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Two years after the massacre of Maspero, Copts are still waiting for justice Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the second anniversary of the massacre of Maspero, which on October 9, 2011 saw 23 Christian Coptics massacred by the departments of the Egyptian army, hundreds of militant movements and acrony ...
• 10 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priests "expelled" by the guerrillas, the complaint of the Bishop Puerto Guzmán (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Mocoa - Sibundoy (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr. Luis Alberto Parra Mora, complained to a local radio station that the guerrillas have expelled some of his priests ...
• 10 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Foundation in favor of children victims of sexual abuse Cali (Agenzia Fides) – In Pasadena there is an institute where children can live "a new life". We are talking about the Asociación Hogar Niños por un Nuevo Planeta, created to protect the most vulnerable children in ...
• 10 October 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In the wake of the cyclone Haruna Sarodrano (Agenzia Fides) - About 50,000 people were seriously damaged by the cyclone Haruna that, for several days, brought torrential rains on the west coast of Madagascar. The floods ceased completely in May, finally ...
• 10 October 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church : "The massacre of Peshawar is strengthening our faith. Yes to dialogue with the Taliban" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The tragic massacre of Peshawar, which according to official figures, has caused 126 deaths and injured 166, "is strengthening the faith of Christians in Pakistan. That attack, in the church, ...