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23 October 2014
AFRICA/BENIN - New schooling project for 450 children in the north of the Country
Sinendé (Agenzia Fides) - The NGO Educo, born from the union of Intervida and Educación Sin Fronteras, has promoted a project of education and improvement of educational institutions in Sinendé, in northern Benin, 564 ...
23 October 2014
AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church begins tomorrow
Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Forty representatives of the four Catholic dioceses of Algeria will meet in Algiers on Friday 24and Saturday, 25th October for the National Inter-diocesan Assembly of the Catholic Church.
The ...
23 October 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks and another 60 girls kidnapped: the possibility of a truce with Boko Haram vanishes
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hopes for peace vanishes after 5 people were killed in a bomb attack this morning at a bus station in Azari, in the State of Bauchi (northern Nigeria), and the abduction of 60 girls in the State o ...
23 October 2014
AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new location of the detention center in San Pedro Sula for the sake of prisoners
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "Five months of work without interruption" says with satisfaction Mgr. Rómulo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F., Auxiliary Bishop of San Pedro Sula (Honduras), who hopes for the arrival of other ...
22 October 2014
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of "St. John the Baptist" Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 30, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Jules Pascal Zabre of the archdiocesan clergy of Ouagadougou as Recto ...
22 October 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Appeal for minorities is shared in civil society
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The recent appeal to the central government and state governments to take "urgent measures to put an end to the orchestrated campaign and motivated by hatred and Violence against religious min ...
22 October 2014
AMERICA/HONDURAS - The right to food for 700,000 people suffering hunger: it is not food that is lacking, but justice
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Hunger is not caused by lack of food, but by the lack of justice": this is how the text sent to Fides Agency by local sources begins, which presents the campaign of Caritas in Honduras. "Ca ...
22 October 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious marriage canceled after threats to a young married couple
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian boy from Multan, Akram Masih, was arrested by the police in Multan for having forced a Muslim girl, Maria Bibi, of the District of Shiekhupura, to marry. The police broke into Akram ...
22 October 2014
AFRICA/CAMEROON - African Catholic Bishops: "Respect democratic turnover"
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The closing of borders is not the solution to Ebola", says the final communiqué of the annual coordination meeting of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECA ...
22 October 2014
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola, not only death and suffering: MSF celebrates the thousandth survivor
Foya (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, MSF has admitted more than 4,500 patients to its care centres. Among these, more than 2,700 were confirmed as having Ebola. Amidst all the ...
21 October 2014
ASIA/IRAN - Three evangelical Christians sentenced to six years imprisonment
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - An Iranian Islamic court has sentenced three leaders of the evangelical house church movement to six years imprisonment: Pastor Behnam Irani, Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, and Deacon Silas Rabbani o ...
21 October 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Too many interests behind Asia Bibi’s case: the truth of the facts are covered up
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "There are too many interests at stake behind Asia Bibi’s case. Too many vested interests and too much pressure that, in the end, cover up the truth of the facts", said in an interview with Fid ...
21 October 2014
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Indigenous people continue to be discriminated against, undernourished and not protected
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Amazon region and the provinces of Bolivar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Esmeraldas is where the highest percentages of children and adolescents who live in conditions of poverty are concentrated, ...
21 October 2014
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Therese of the Child Jesus" in the Archdiocese of Antananarivo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 31, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Abdon Rafidison of the archdiocesan clergy of Antananarivo as Recto ...
21 October 2014
AMERICA/VENEZUELA – May Saint John Paul II accompany Venezuela in the paths of peace and justice
Chacao (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela, Archbishop Aldo Giordano, took part in the tribute to Pope John Paul II prepared by the authorities of Venezuela in Chacao, one of the five municipalities that ...
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