News

• 31 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - UN alert: Judges under pressure to apply the "blasphemy law" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The issue of "blasphemy" is a "black hole" for the judicial system in Pakistan. The Pakistani judges are under pressure to condemn to death those accused under the "blasphemy law", while lawye ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Fighting in North Kivu, causing 80,000 displaced people, the missionaries denounce the "lies of war" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - For two weeks the fighting between the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and rebels of the Movement of March 23 (M23) have been concentrated on three hills: Mbuzi, Chanzu ...
• 31 May 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church demands a stop to the conflict in the Espinar area that has caused deaths and injuries Espinar (Agenzia Fides) - The Prelature of Sicuani, Cusco, Peru has published a report on the current situation in the province of Espinar, of which a copy was sent to Fides Agency, where the following acts of violence c ...
• 31 May 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Eradicate Poverty, inequality and social exclusion that cause the forced displacement of population: the meeting on Migration in Central America has just concluded Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, issued yesterday, May 30, an appeal so that the Government of the Dominican Republic rectifies the situation (as reg ...
• 31 May 2012
  VATICAN - "Despite the weakness of man, the difficulties and trials, the Church is guided by the Holy Spirit" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The events of recent days involving the Curia and my collaborators have brought sadness to my heart, but I have never lost my firm certainty that, despite the weakness of man, the difficul ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The Nigerian Bishops have played a role of which the universal Church should be proud," said the Bishop of Sokoto Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Nigeria has played a leading role in national peace efforts, but can do more, especially in promoting a political class inspired by Gospel values and the teaching of the Social Doctri ...
• 31 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Bishop Li Yi, a shining example of a caring and zealous priest pastor Changzhi (Agenzia Fides) - On May 24, 2012, liturgical memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, and World Day of Prayer for the Church in China, His Exc. Mgr. Ermenegildo Li Yi, O.F.M., 88 years old, Bishop of Cha ...
• 31 May 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Churches closed, bans and threats to Christians: religious freedom denied in Sumatra Medan (Agenzia Fides) – Threats to Christians, they are not allowed to gather to pray , churches are closed, appeasement of the civil authorities: is a disturbing picture on freedom of religion for Christians in Sumat ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuit Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio in prayer in Qusayr to stop the sectarian conflict Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The minaret wakes him in the night, but in doing so, "helps him in prayer before dawn, that of the monks of the East". An oasis of prayer "in the middle of the fight, in an enclosed city; constan ...
• 30 May 2012
  AFRICA - "We cannot afford to add terrorism to our long list of problems," says the Archbishop of Abuja Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - No African country is immune against the kind of terrorism that has invaded Nigeria and this is why religions in Africa must reject all forms of fanaticism that threatens to turn into violence. ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees welcomed by the Jesuits in the convent of St. Vartan Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Families of displaced Syrians, fled from the conflict that raged in the west of the country, found hospitality and were welcomed in the Convent of St. Vartan, run by the Jesuits in the Midan neig ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - More impetus to mission: the Sisters of Providence 250 years since its founding Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The evangelization continues to be the top priority for the Sisters of Providence, said of Portieux (Soeurs de la Providence de Portieux) that celebrated the 250th anniversary of the foundation ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians kidnapped: after Houla, they are possible target for revenge Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian Christians are a possible target of revenge by armed groups and Sunni Islamic militants who want to avenge the massacre of Houla. And they are privileged victims of kidnappings. As fa ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/TURKEY - Prime Minister Erdogan. "Abortion is murder, yes to the law to abolish it" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is murder": is what the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a meeting with groups and women's associations in Turkey. "What is the difference between killing a ...
• 30 May 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Taylor sentenced to 50 years imprisonment, "but who will pay the victims of violence?" Asks a missionary Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a sign that men should remember to atone their sins, but it is not true justice, which we leave to the mercy of God," said Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experie ...