News

• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million child workers, and 27% suffer from extreme poverty Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Children's Day, established by the United Nations on 30 April, the Mexican authorities have committed themselves to strengthening the struggle for the defense of children' ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Resignation of the Bishop of Loikaw and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Loikaw (Myanmar) by His Exc. Mgr. Sotero Phamo, in accordance with can. 401 § 2 of ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Children sold for sexual and labor exploitation and for the sale of organs Potosí (Agenzia Fides) - Child trafficking continues to increase silently in the region of Potosí in Bolivia, the poorest in the Country. According to a recent report published by the local press, until 2012, 15 000 ch ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Transparency in everything, because people must have confidence San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of El Salvador has ruled on the government's initiative to propose a truce among gangs to end the violence and said that any attempt regarding social peace must be b ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Seminarian kidnapped and murdered during Holy Week Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides ) - "The ecclesial community of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, through our Pastor, Mgr. Constancio Miranda Weckmann, announces with deep regret the death of our brother in Christ, Samuel Gustavo G ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A 7-year-old Christian Girl raped on Easter Sunday Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of those brutal acts, the emblem of the abuses suffered by Christians in Pakistan: on Easter Day, Saira, a 7-year-old Christian girl was raped by a Muslim man, Mohammad Alam Fakhar, in ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – The Bishop of Bossangoa: "The Muslim population of Bangui is held hostage by jihadists " Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim population of "Km 5" in Bangui is taken hostage by jihadist members that have infiltrated the capital of the Republic of Central Africa: this was reported to Fides Agency by His Exc. M ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - An exhibition on John Paul II, example of dialogue appreciated by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII; an exhibition dedicated to Pope Wojtyla: two events organized by the Catholic community in Pakistan was also at ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Aleppo again in the grip of war Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days attacks, incursions by rebels and operations of military retaliation in the Syrian city of Aleppo have intensified. An escalation which on Sunday 27 April devastated again even the ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Protecting the rights and education of poor rural people Mindanao (Agenzia Fides) - During the recent disasters that have occurred in the Philippines, the Camillian Task Force (CTF) have relied on the collaboration of the Missionary/Rural Associations of the Philippines (RMP), ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A reception center for the Congolese expelled from Brazzaville has been created in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo have created a reception center to assist its citizens who have been expelled from the neighboring Republic of Congo. The center, located in ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 28, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation by His Exc. Mgr. Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C., titular Bishop of Zucchabar, in accordance with canons 411 and 401 § 1 of the Code of ...
• 25 April 2014
  VATICAN - Fr. Szmydki, OMI, Secretary-General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April 3, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed Fr. Ryszard Szmydki, of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Malaria: Each year more than a million people die, mostly in Africa Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Today April 25, the World Day Against Malaria is celebrated, a disease that annually kills over one million people, 75% are African children. Every 30 seconds one of them dies. Mothers are also a ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - An interactive documentary explores the living hell in Bangladesh's clothing industry Savar (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh which caused the death of over 1100 local ...