News

• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Schools are closed for the orphans and the poor: the government does not pay fees Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The vast majority of primary and secondary schools in Swaziland have not been able to start their school activities as the government has failed to solve the problem of the additional fees provi ...
• 16 September 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign 2011: "Mission and Ecology" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary campaign for 2011 will officially be presented next Wednesday, September 21, at the national headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, in Brasilia,. Accor ...
• 16 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Commission for the Pastoral Care of Workers in Hong Kong urges HSBC to revoke the dismissal of 3 000 employees Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Revoke the decision to immediately dismiss 3 000 employees in 3 years, intensify the contact with the employees making them participate in the bank development, take upon oneself social respon ...
• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya has changed, there is an atmosphere of tranquility and peace", says Mgr.Martinelli from Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Libya has changed, there are other colors, there is even greater peace of mind" says His Exc. Mgr.Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who returned to the Libyan ...
• 16 September 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Radio Tepeyac, the radio station of the poor San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Tepeyac has started broadcasting recently on the internet and only after a few days the number of "listeners via the Internet" has grown significantly, surpassing all e ...
• 16 September 2011
  VATICAN - The professor of theology, real educator: course for theologians at ICMA Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of its specific commitment to "train the educators", the ICMA (International Centre for Missionary Animation) is organizing a French language course for theologians from 19 to 30 Se ...
• 16 September 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Half a million women abort each year; the Christian churches "committed to life" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The issue on abortion will be on the agenda of the Commission of the Criminal Law of Deputies that will talk about this topic for the first time on Sept. 27. Representatives of those who su ...
• 16 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods in Sindh: aid denied to Christians and Hindus, the "untouchables" of religious minorities Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Among the flood victims of Sindh (South of Pakistan), Christian and Hindu "Dalits" families, considered the "untouchables", are thrown out of refugee camps set up by the government and do no ...
• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - To talk about reconciliation to those who saw their parents being killed: witness of a missionary who takes care of the "hidden wounds" of the civil war Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is fairly calm but there is still much insecurity, especially in the evening, when there is a sort of unwritten curfew, so after 8pm nobody leaves the house, because security is n ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy against a Christian, the court invites him to "leave the country" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian high school teacher has suffered false accusations of blasphemy by a student and some Muslim professors, because of dislike, revenge and hatred towards Christians. He was forced to l ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Thousands of faithful pilgrims from all over China under the pouring rain at the Shrine of the Cross, the Calvary of the East Mei Xian (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful Catholics coming from all over China went on a pilgrimage, under the pouring rain, to the Sanctuary of the Cross on Mount Pao Wo (nicknamed "the Calvary of the East"), in ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission "Justice and Peace": "the UN envoy is invited to Pakistan, we need to abolish the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Pakistani Bishops have invited the UN Special Observer on religious Tolerance to visit Pakistan to see the "abuses and violence against religious minorit ...
• 15 September 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Strong solidarity towards the victims of the fire in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Kenyans in Nairobi are queuing up to donate blood for the victims of the pipeline explosion and fire which killed a hundred people and injured 118 people in the slums of Sinai, in Na ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a court "influenced by Islamic extremists" and "without a lawyer" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is more than a shadow on the case of Asia Bibi, a 40-year old Christian woman, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy. Asia was judged by a court "under the obvious pressure of Islamic ex ...
• 15 September 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND -Prevention, concrete initiatives, prosecution of traffickers: how to counteract the globalization of human trafficking Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - "To counteract the scourge of trafficking of women and children with greater determination and more concrete results, a convergence of efforts is necessary: a mentality that is centered on the un ...