News

• 10 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians "treated like animals" by Muslims in Punjab Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians are "treated like animals", they are denied the dignity of human beings: is the complaint that reaches Fides from Kasur district, in the Punjab province, a district already known for th ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Let us defend our water": Mgr. Escobar’s appeal San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, suggested yesterday, in his usual press conference on Sunday, that an appeal should be addressed to international organizations to c ...
• 10 June 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 March 2013 confirmed rev. Fr. Celestino Bundi as National Director of the Pontifical Mission S ...
• 10 June 2013
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on April 8, 2013 appointed rev. Fr. Mario Cassera as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 10 June 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Filing immigrants is a shame", denounces Fr. Solalinde Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a degrading and embarrassing act for our Central American brothers and sisters who are filed as soon as they cross the southern border of Mexico," is the complaint by Fr Alejandro Sol ...
• 10 June 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM – Free surgery for a group of disabled children Nam Dinh (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 30 disabled children in the northern Vietnamese province of Nam Dinh, will benefit from free surgery thanks to a program sponsored and supported by the Australian organization Hands ...
• 8 June 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN – Reporting the turbulent and controversial Middle East: Conference on the role of the Christian Arab media Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The two-day workshop organized by the Catholic Center for Studies and Media on the contribution offered by the Christian Arab media at the service of justice, peace and human rights begins on Mo ...
• 8 June 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudanese air force raid on the Nuba Mountains on the second anniversary of the war Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Two MIG fighters of the aviation of Khartoum dropped four bombs on the village of Kauda, in the Nuba Mountains. This was reported by the Sudan Catholic Radio Network, according to which the ra ...
• 8 June 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - RELAMI: Latin American Network of Missiology Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - A group of theologians, consultants and superiors of the missionary congregations, gathered in São Paulo on May 31 and gave the go-ahead to start off the Latin American Network of Missiologis ...
• 8 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Don Apollinaire Malumalu elected President of the Independent National Electoral Commission Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On June 7th Don Apollinaire Malumalu was elected President of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), by the National Assembly, the legislative chamber of the Congolese Democrati ...
• 8 June 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Agreement for the formation of the poorest young people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas of Peru and the Professional service and development training Center (government institution), signed an institutional cooperation Agreement, which lasts two years, aimed at human developme ...
• 7 June 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We talk a lot about poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," Caritas outraged by the President’s words Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "There is much talk of poverty, but we spend little time with the poor," says Mgr. Oscar Ojea Quintana, Bishop of San Isidro and President of Caritas Argentina, responding to journalists wi ...
• 7 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Twenty pastors of the Baptist Church attacked by Hindu extremists Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Hindu extremists brutally attacked 20 Protestant Pastors of the Baptist Church in the district of Mahehwaram Mandal, territory of Hyderabad, the state capital of Andhra Pradesh in south-centra ...
• 7 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Two Presbyterian pastors illegally detained since May 19 Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Two pastors of the Presbyterian Church have been held since 19 May by the authorities of South Sudan, that prevent any contact with the detainees’ relatives and their lawyers. This was revealed ...
• 7 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The UN denounces new violence against civilians in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Extrajudicial executions as well as other serious human rights violations were committed in and around the town of Pinga in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This was revealed ...