News

• 1 September 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Cardinal Jesús López Rodríguez to the media: "Criminal violence provoked by drug dealers needs to be stopped" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "What is happening in Santiago de los Caballeros is a scandal, we must stop the criminal violence provoked by drug dealers": with these words Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, ...
• 1 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Order for the arrest of Shahbaz Bhatti’s killers, but the country is struggling to combat terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi has issued an arrest warrant against two men suspected of being the Christian Shahbaz Bhatti’s perpetrators. Bhatti was the minister of reli ...
• 1 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Celebration at the end of Ramadan, lived in peace and in interreligious respect Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Eid-al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan (the Islamic month of fasting), was celebrated in Indonesia "in a peaceful manner, in respect of differences and inter-reli ...
• 1 September 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The serious economic situation puts at risk the closure of seminaries Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The rampant inflation and other economic problems which are seriously affecting Uganda, threaten the closure of seminaries despite the increasing number of priestly vocations in the country. Mgr ...
• 1 September 2011
  AFRICA - Cholera continues to spread in the countries in Lake Chad area Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - This year, due to cholera, about 1200 people in the countries bordering Lake Chad, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have died. The disease, caused mainly by poor sanitation and lack of drinking w ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-Ten elderly missionaries who have offered their lives for the mission in Taiwan continue to enlighten today's youth Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nazareth Spiritual Center of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) of the Diocese of Hsin Chu in Taiwan, live ten simple and extraordinary religious women. The elderly nuns are aged ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Supreme Court appeals for a new report, but "there is still no justice for Christians in Orissa" Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for Christians in Orissa affected by violence is still far off, despite faint steps forward. The Supreme Court has officially asked the National Commission for Human Rights to submit wi ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Christians discriminated and persecuted find asylum in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) – Pakistani Christians, victims of violence, discrimination and persecution, are welcomed and may extend asylum in India and get Indian citizenship: is what the Indian Ministry of the Interior has d ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Stop the violence, the causes are not only religious": statement from the Archbishop of Jos Jos (Agenzia Fides) - "The cycle of violence resulting in killings, bloodshed and the destruction of people’s hard earned means of livelihood in Jos and environs is, to say the least, very disturbing, a source of great ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Young Christians protect Muslims in prayer and looking forward to celebrating Eid, at the end of Ramadan Jayapura (Agenzia Fides ) - Young Christians from Papua are committed today as sentinels to guarantee security to all the Muslim communities who are praying and fasting for the end of Ramadan and to ensure that the celeb ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Millions of children are not registered at birth and remain without any assistance Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years since the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 12 million people are still deprived of citizenship. According to the UN Agency for Refugees, most of them live in Asia. The o ...
• 31 August 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Secretary General of PSMC visits Argentina for the first time Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PSMC) Baptistine Ralamboarison, visited Argentina for the first time since starting the job. According to informatio ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in Quetta: "Terrorism does not cease, Eid is a day of peace" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "A day of peace and celebration was transformed in a day of mourning and disaster. We must unite the efforts of Muslim and Christian citizens and all people of good will against terrorism", said ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "There are problems, but I am confident that reconciliation will prevail", says Mgr.Martinelli Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The feeling that I had already expressed, for more relaxation and peace is strengthened in light of the fact that from what I have been told, the road links between Tripoli and Tunisia have become ...
• 31 August 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We ask the intercession of John Paul II for peace in Mexico": the pilgrimage of the relics begins Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Mexico presented the program of activities that will take place from September 5 to 9, on the occasion of the veneration of the relics of Blessed John Paul II: "it is an oc ...