News

• 12 March 2012
  VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus recalls that "violence never serves humanity, it only dehumanizes" and launches an appeal for Madagascar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Commenting on the Gospel passage of the third Sunday of Lent, the story of Jesus’ action throwing out of the temple animal sellers and money-changers from the temple of Jerusalem (cf. Jn ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/YEMEN - African migrants tortured by human traffickers until their ransom is paid Hajjah (Agenzia Fides) - The discovery of 70 men and women battered, held prisoners in Hajjah, a remote area of the Governorate of Yemen near the Saudi border, led to an investigation into the torture and blackmail Afric ...
• 12 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We knew that sooner or later the instability of the northern Countries of Nigeria would have reached us, but not in such a tragic manner", said Mgr. Onaiyekan Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who commit these attacks do not think in a rational way, and it is therefore difficult to find a logic. To expect to transform Nigeria into an Islamic State with violence is a completely ins ...
• 12 March 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Caritas Campaign against violence, to respect the dignity and human rights Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign launched by Caritas at a national level, intends to recover in Honduras those deep Christian values such as respect for human dignity and human rights, tolerance, solidarity and ...
• 12 March 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The massacre of Kandahar "plays into the hands of the Taliban": Civil society calls for justice and transparency Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacre in Kandahar is a sad episode that we cannot ignore. We want guarantees that that this does not happen again. Afghan society experienced a day of profound mourning for the crime again ...
• 12 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacre of Jos: "the Boy Scouts prevented the car bomb to pounce upon the faithful in church," says Archbishop Jos (Agenzia Fides) - The Boy Scouts managed to prevent the suicide attack on Sunday, March 11 against the church in St. Finbarr, in Jos, capital of Plateau State, in the west of Nigeria which could have had even more se ...
• 10 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Vicar: "Kofi Annan come without prejudice or pre-packaged instructions" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – There is a chance for peace in Syria if there is an observer like Kofi Annan "listen and enter into the psychology of the Syrian people", says to Fides the Franciscan Fr. Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM, ...
• 10 March 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Re-evaluate the role of women in the Peruvian Amazon: An exhibition of missionaries Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Centro Cultural Jose Pio Aza, of the Order of the Dominicans, has organized the photo exhibition "The Amazon with a Woman’s face". As reported to Fides by a note from the Peruvian Episcopal C ...
• 10 March 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Pope in Mexico: the Church protagonist of the mass-media, full coverage on TV Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, after five visits of the Blessed John Paul II in Mexico, the Mexican Church will be responsible for full television coverage of the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Mexico. ...
• 10 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The largest Islamic extremist group is illegal: for the Church "it is a good start" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan has outlawed the largest Islamic extremist group in the country: the group "Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat", also known as "Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) (" Soldiers of the Companions ...
• 10 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Women disfigured with acid: the first prosecution of an offender under the new law Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Faisalabad have officially registered today, March 10, the first case of a woman disfigured by acid, with the prosecution of the offender thanks to a new law, refer local sources of ...
• 10 March 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A video about Joseph Kony and child soldiers triumphs on the web: the words of the Bishop Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda has suddenly become "the center of the world" thanks to the Internet: a video about Joseph Kony, described as "the tyrant of child soldiers" has had over 70 million viewers on Youtube a ...
• 9 March 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan Major Seminary "St. Roberto Bellarmino" in Kisantu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 30, 2011 appointed rev. Simon Matondo-Tuzizila, of the diocesan clergy of Matadi as Rector of the inter-dioce ...
• 9 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - A Catholic killed in Orissa accused of witchcraft Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Hindu men killed a Catholic of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, in Orissa, accusing him of practicing "witchcraft". As reported to Fides by the local Church, the accusation ...
• 9 March 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The catechumens’ assessment and the intense spiritual retreats distinguish the Lenten journey of mainland Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The catechumens’ assessment, spiritual retreats and other opportunities to strengthen faith, characterize the intense Lenten journey of Chinese Catholics on the continent. Among the spiritual ...