News

• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Two thousand villages flooded: Indian friars and nuns active in helping the victims in Uttarkand New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The flash floodings in Uttarkand are "a national tragedy that affects many of our people. As religious Indians, along with all the Church, we are deeply moved and we respond with prayer and wi ...
• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and boycotted in Orissa on charges of "forced conversions" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Hindu extremists have launched a series of attacks and boycotts against Christians in Orissa (eastern India). As reported to Fides by local sources, on 24 June a large group of Hindu extremi ...
• 27 June 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – More violence in the TIPNIS, the Church at the side of the indigenous peoples Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - After the clashes which occured last weekend between the 2 groups that control the representation of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), the Catholic Church a ...
• 27 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Acts of vandalism and insults against a church: a Muslim man forgiven Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Forgiveness, reconciliation, trust: with this attitude, the community of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in the Apostolic Vicariate in Quetta, Baluchistan province, handled a tric ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest who disappeared days ago found dead Monteria (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Father Néstor Darío Buendía Martinez (see Fides 25/06/2013) was found dead in an isolated area of the town of Los Cordobas. Although the priest had never reported of hav ...
• 26 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - From social conflict to religious violence: fear of Christians in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Interfaith tension in Rahim Yar Khan, a town in Punjab. An episode of conflict between Christians and Muslims has generated mass protests of Christians and could escalate into open anti-Christian ...
• 26 June 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - 15 victims and about twenty wounded in an attack by an armed group from Ethiopia Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 15 victims (including 6 women and 5 children) and about twenty wounded. This is the toll of an assault carried out on June 23 by an armed gang in Choroko, in the County of Mandera, on t ...
• 26 June 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church condemns the assault against the elderly who ask for a pension Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "How can one keep silent with regards to an unjust act against the elderly who are an example for us and for our future," said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, Mgr. Silvio Baez. T ...
• 26 June 2013
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Patriarch Kirill: let us collect funds for Christians in Syria Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - An amazing collection of money in all the churches of the Patriarchate of Moscow, to be allocated to the Syrian people torn by civil war. The initiative was launched yesterday, Tuesday, June 25, ...
• 26 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Minister for Minorities and Human Rights in Punjab is Catholic, but the budget is low Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is a Catholic minister in the government of Punjab province, the heart of Pakistan, at an economic, political and cultural level. His name is Khalil Tahir Sindhu, a lawyer elected from the ...
• 26 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The instability of Katanga at the center of the Congolese political struggle Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The failed assault on Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi by an armed commando highlights once again the insecurity in the province of Katanga. The assault was carried out in the night between 22 and ...
• 25 June 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop of Seoul: "A year of pastoral service, with the smell of the sheep" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To evangelize according to Pope Francis’ words, when he says that "Pastors must have the smell of the sheep": is the pastoral perspective of the Archbishop of Seoul,His Exc. Mgr. Andrew Yeom S ...
• 25 June 2013
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Jesuits launch a new educational project and a new school Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits launch a new educational project in Cambodia: a secondary school with four classes per year, and a small elementary school will be built in Battambang. The project also includes a ...
• 25 June 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The university conflict has to be resolved in a positive way " ask the Bishops Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) has launched an appeal to the government and university field in order to create a space of "real and sincere dialogue" in order to find an immediate s ...
• 25 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The social fabric is completely torn" the Bishops write to the President of Transition Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The rebellion led by the coalition Seleka has shaken the foundations of national unity. The Central Africans live in fear and distrust." This is the cry of alarm launched by the Bishops of the C ...