News

• 8 May 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - A "Turkish plan" for Syriac Christians? Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey may offer Turkish citizenship to all Syriacs of the Christian community who are or have been related to former citizens of Turkey and who are now in a d ...
• 8 May 2013
  VATICAN - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies, from May 13 to 18 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the greetings and the Report of His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the works of the Annual General Meeting of the Pon ...
• 8 May 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to a Christian NGO committed to a transparent policy and the participation of women Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The women of a Christian NGO have received threats by Rao Kasif Raheem Khan, a Muslim candidate of the "Pakistan Muslim League-N" party for their campaign of education of voters with regards ...
• 7 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - International effort for the release of the Bishops kidnapped, but beware of fake mediators Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A great international and ecumenical effort is in progress to try to save the lives and release the two Bishops of Aleppo in Syria kidnapped two weeks ago, the Syrian Orthodox Gregorios Yohannn ...
• 7 May 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - After the clashes in Baga, displaced people are still homeless Baga (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of residents of Baga, in the northeastern State of Borno,in Nigeria, are displaced for fear of further clashes between the radical Islamist group Boko Haram and the combined forces of Nig ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Stop weapons," says the Church in the Country with the highest murder rate in the world San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "There are crazy people who want to impose chaos in the Country and do not respect the laws," denounced Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), commenting on ...
• 7 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - No justice for the Christian victims of the massacres in Orissa: the figures of impunity Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Five years after the anti-Christian massacres that shocked Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa, justice is still far and impunity prevails. In the "pogrom" of 2008, over 400 vil ...
• 7 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – Attack in Arusha: the testimony of the Apostolic Nuncio to Fides Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The faithful are in a state of shock and I am in town specifically to be close to the Catholic community," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Francisco M. Padilla, Apostolic Nuncio in Tan ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Minor workers engaged in heavy activity and at risk Salta (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) has discovered a traffic of child laborers in an agricultural property in Salta, at the foot of the Andes, where 97% of these were not recorded. ...
• 7 May 2013
  AFRICA/GABON - Church organizes procession against ritual crimes Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is organizing in all the dioceses of Gabon on 11 May a procession to sensitize the population and authorities on the so called criminal rituals. This is what the Bishops o ...
• 7 May 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The social media revolution has arrived in Papua Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In order to go to school, look for a job, go shopping, go to church or participate in the prayer, the young people of Papua use Facebook: the social network, now widely spread among young p ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A sad record to abolish: 5 million internally displaced persons Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia there are 4.9000000 to 5.5000000 displaced according to the report prepared by the Church through the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral, on the basis of data collected by the Se ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another priest killed Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been killed in Colombia. Father José Antonio Bayona Valle, 48 years old, a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Barranquilla (Colombia) was killed last night with 18 s ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/NEPAL - We need to change behavioral attitudes to combat malnutrition Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Across the country, child malnutrition, which causes stunting (low height for age, also known as chronic malnutrition) and other long-term effects on health, is not due to food insecurity or l ...
• 6 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - "Let us wait to have more information before speaking out about the attack in Arusha" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to have precise information before expressing ourselves about what happened, because the situation is very delicate," say to Fides Agency sources of the local Church from Tanzania ...