News

• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 4 out of 10 children are extremely poor and deprived of basic necessities Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - About 4.8 million children in Argentina belong to families who do not have sufficient income to buy basic goods needed every day. Of these, about 800,000 come from extremely poor families w ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The phenomenon of child labor increases in Yucatan Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Every year child labor in the Mexican state of Yucatan increases. In the streets of Merida, Progreso, Umán Kanasin there are children who beg, wash windows, sell sweets, chewing gum, chocolate.. ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - March of prayer for the Syrian bishops kidnapped. "May the Almighty safeguard the stability in the Hashemite Kingdom" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand people crossed Amman yesterday evening with candles in their hand to pray for the release of the bishops and priests kidnapped in Syria and ask for the gift of peace through ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - "The Church is object of persecution but the government does not intervene" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The recent attack carried out during the inauguration of the parish of St. Joseph the Worker in Arusha (see Fides 6 and 7 May, 2013) is only the latest in a series of acts of persecution a ...
• 22 May 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - No to worship in the Persian language: a Christian Pastor arrested, the church risks closure Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Pastor, Robert Asserian, of the Protestant denomination "Assembly of God" was arrested yesterday in Tehran during a prayer meeting in his church. As reported to Fides by the NGO "Ch ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Nigeria now almost totters on the brink. Prayer is essential to restore peace" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Catholic Church in Nigeria have warned against the granting of blanket amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group describing such an act as an "endorsement of crimin ...
• 22 May 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of National the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 confirmed Rev.. Fr. Yvon B. Mabandza, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Brazzavil ...
• 22 May 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Repression against indigenous peoples has become a systematic practice", denounces the CIMI Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), issued a statement on May 20 in which it denounced the "illegal and authoritarian" manner with which the missionaries and staff of CIMI were treated ...
• 21 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 18,000 street children exploited and at risk of physical, psychological and sexual violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of street children in Mexico is particularly severe and complicated to solve. In fact, despite local institutions try to propose help both to young children and their families ...
• 21 May 2013
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - "Spirituality of communion": the new Archbishop’s manifesto Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Spirituality of communion" is the style and pastoral manifesto of the new Archbishop of Singapore, just appointed by Pope Francis. His Exc. Mgr. William Goh succeeds His Exc. Mgr. Nichols Chi ...
• 21 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – Bishops say: "Yes to the State of emergency but it is politicians have to work for peace," Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome the President’s efforts to put national challenges under control," said His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ni ...
• 21 May 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: there is no majority and minority in the Church Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The attachment to one’s "Chaldean" ethnic and cultural roots should not become fanatical cult of one’s national identity, if one does not want to obscure the Church's catholicity. This is th ...
• 21 May 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Chile has a debt with the Mapuche community," said Msg. Vial in his greetings to the community Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "Chile has a debt with the Mapuche community," said Mgr. Manuel Camilo Vial Risopatrón in a statement sent to Fides, who a week ago became Bishop Emeritus of Temuco (Chile), who for eleven years ...
• 21 May 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The "invisible" children of the continent are deprived of their rights Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Half of the African children are "invisible" because they do not appear in any population register. This is what emerged in a statement released on the occasion of the XXI Meeting of the Afr ...
• 21 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "There is less violence, but there are still no social programs," said Mgr. Gallardo Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Veracruz (Mexico), Mgr. Luis Felipe Gallardo Martin del Campo has recognized the work carried out by the authorities of the homonymous State with regards to safety and reported th ...