News

• 18 October 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and FARC has started behind closed-door Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released a joint statement confirming the meeting for Dialogue for peace in Oslo, capital of Norway, albeit behin ...
• 18 October 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The violence is antithetical to the true values preached by Christianity and Islam, says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The need to return to the true values of Christianity and Islam to create a Nigerian society that lives in peace and harmony. This is the appeal launched by His Exc Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, A ...
• 18 October 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "No violence is justified under any circumstances," the Archdiocese after the violence in the Marconi barrio of the capital Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) –From Sunday 14 to Tuesday, October 16, the " Marconi barrio " of the Uruguayan capital became a war zone. A group of policemen, looking for some robbers, was the object of throwing stones, s ...
• 18 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Talibans in Asia united against Malala, but "Pakistan is with her" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - While the school in Mingora, where Malala Yousafzai studied, the girl victim of aTaliban attack who is struggling between life and death, has been forced to a temporary closure "because of the th ...
• 18 October 2012
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Year of Faith: "People are ready to publicly display their belief in God" Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics of Tahiti mobilized for the Year of Faith, expressing "full communion" with the initiative launched by Pope Benedict XVI and wishing to offer a "public witness of faith." As reported t ...
• 18 October 2012
  AFRICA/CHAD - The children who emigrated finally reunited with their families Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The majority of the students of the Koran in Chad who were in Nigeria for study reasons, and who in March were forced to flee back to their country because of the ongoing violence in northern Nige ...
• 17 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - "To carry out mission in an area where there are scars of violence": the testimony of the Archbishop of Ayacucho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During a break in the work of the Synod on the New Evangelization, Fides Agency met His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro Garcia-Calderon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho and President of t ...
• 17 October 2012
  VATICAN - The Synod of Bishops: a delegation to Syria to express solidarity and closeness to the population Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday afternoon, October 16, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, spoke at the Fourteenth General Congregation of the Synod of Bishops and announced that a Delegation of the ...
• 17 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For a just world, interest towards people must prevail over economics Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 1 million 300 thousand people who continue to live in extreme poverty, and nearly 850 million suffer from hunger, inequality and discrimination between one country an ...
• 17 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The church of San Francesco attacked in Karachi: the Franciscans in fear Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of St. Francis, the oldest of the archdiocese of Karachi, in the old town, was attacked by a mob of about 600 Islamic radicals that devasted the yard, but did not manage to b ...
• 17 October 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - In North Kivu, a new rebel group extorts money from the civilian population, reports a source of Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) a new rebel group has appeared that extorts money from the civilian population. This is denounced to Fides Agency by a missionary source who ...
• 17 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Armenian Catholic Bishop Marayati: the visit of the delegation of the Synod "reason to hope for Christians and for all the people of Syria" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The news that a delegation of the Synod of Bishops, being held in Rome, will be in Syria is a source of hope for Christians and for all the people of Syria. We all hope that the visit takes on t ...
• 17 October 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Immense destruction in Abyei, a complaint by an Archbishop Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS), was shocked to see the level of destruction carried out by the Sudanese army in the town of Abyei, disputed between Sudan and ...
• 17 October 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The "Caravan of mothers" in search of their children arrived in Mexico Tenosique (Agenzia Fides) – The "caravan of mothers" of Central America arrived in the Mexican territory, and on the very same day, according to news agencies, there was the first meeting of a Honduran with his parents ...
• 17 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha's case: postponed for a month, Ryan’s case: blasphemous SMS sent by Muslims? Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Two cases of young Christians accused of blasphemy continue to hold the Christian community’s breath in Pakistan. We are talking about Rimsha Masih, a 12-year-old falsely accused by an imam ...