Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - The referendum convened by the government of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan to sanction their independence from Iraq is a decisive step for the future of that region. And if Europe cannot stand ...
Makung (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 July, San Camillo Hospital in Makung, Pescadores islands, Taiwan, celebrated 60 years of activity. The hospital was built by Camillian Missionaries (MI) when, expelled from China in 1952, arrived in M ...
New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) - Tension and violence among Hindus and Muslims in India: in the past few days clashes and violent protests of the local Muslim community occurred in the Western Bengal state, after the provocation of a y ...
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of the tens of thousands of talibés children in Senegal does not seem to diminish (see Fides 31/3/2017). Although, in March 2017, over 1,500 children were removed from the streets of Dakar, ...
Copiapó (Agenzia Fides) - The Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe House of Migrant in Copiapó hosted a conference on the rights of foreign workers residing in the Chilean region of Atacama, promoted by the Pastoral Ministry for Migrant ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 24, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Mgr. Byron Heralda Chevannes, of the diocese of Juticalpa, a ...
Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - If 58.7 percent of young people under the age of 18 are poor, "it is clear that this is a sign of something that could not be solved". "We all are responsible, in one way or another, although we have 30 y ...
Naipyidó (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's armed forces released 67 child soldiers under pact with UN. This is its first discharge this year as part of a process to end forced recruitment of underage fighters. This is the first step to ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today Pope Francis appointed Fr. Jesús Ruiz Molina, M.C.I.I, Parish priest in Moungoumba, and diocesan coordinator of the Commission for Catechesis in the Diocese of M'Baïki, as Auxiliary Bishop of ...
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "We call on all Sierra Leoneans, especially those who are of voting age, to strongly reject all acts of violence, unnecessary provocations, various forms of fraud that distort results, as well as anythin ...
Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor exploitation in Colombia is punishable: from 3 to 7 years in prison. According to the police which deals with the country's childhood and adolescent, about 869,000 children work at night, ...
Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Church's presence in Mongolia and 25 years since the liaison of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Mongolia. As Fides learns, this "Silver Ju ...
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – After the liberation of the city of Mosul, from the militia of the self-styled Islamic State that had conquered the city in June 2014, now the ambition is "that all displaced people and the sons of religi ...
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – In order to resolve the serious food and drug crisis, and the insecurity that is causing innumerable victims throughout the country, it is urgent: "To recognize the autonomy of all public powers and wor ...
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than six hundred Maronites from Lebanese emigrated families will come to Lebanon to participate in the "Maronite Youth Days" from 21 July. The initiative, conceived under the patronage of th ...
