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1 October 2014
AFRICA/SUDAN - Epidemics and food shortages in refugee camps in Kass, South Darfur
Kass (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people living in the camp of El Batari, in Kass, South Darfur, complain of poor health, the spread of diseases and lack of health care by the authorities. According to what was report ...
1 October 2014
VATICAN - The feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, opens the Mission Month
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With today's liturgical feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897), proclaimed Patroness of the Missions in 1927 with St. Francis Xavier, October month of the missions begins, whic ...
1 October 2014
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The crisis pushes more and more faithful to religious syncretism" denounces Mgr. Nzapalainga
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The political and social crisis that is shaking the Central African Republic as a result of the civil war which broke out in December 2012, is leading several Catholics toward the drift of religi ...
1 October 2014
ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: hostility toward the Syrian refugees increases
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The effects of uncontrolled influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon open a disturbing scenario. The concern has reached the warning level. Among the local population hostility towards refugees cont ...
1 October 2014
ASIA/TURKEY - The Armenian Catholicos announces it will file an appeal to retrieve the properties of the ancient Sis
Athens (Agenzia Fides) - Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has made public his intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Turkey within the month of October for th ...
30 September 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pastor Zafar Bhatti is alive, another inmate wounded
Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Protestant Pastor Zafar Bhatti, in prison in Rawalpindi since 2012 for alleged blasphemy, was not killed or hurt, as erroneously reported in Pakistan in recent days (see Fides 26/09/2014). In ...
30 September 2014
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violence in the country does not decrease: a military chaplain killed
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of La Guaira, in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Raúl Biord Castillo, issued a statement, sent to Fides Agency, which informs the violent death of Fr. Reinaldo Alfonso Herrera Lures, who se ...
30 September 2014
ASIA/THAILAND - The armed conflicts, which so far have caused 6000 deaths, also involve minors
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Thailand has become caught up in an escalating cycle of violence. It is easy to come across children who clean firearms and fight in the ranks of Islamist rebels. It is a reality that h ...
30 September 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Working with the indigenous open to inculturation: the commitment of the Apostolic Vicar of Mitu
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We work with indigenous groups open to inculturation": with these words His Exc. Mgr. Medardo Gesù Henao del Rio, MXY, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Mitu, in the Colombian Amazon in South ...
30 September 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Prayers in South Africa for the recognition of the martyrdom of Benedict Daswa
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tzaneen, His Exc. Mgr. Joao Rodrigues, has asked the faithful to pray for the Congress meeting of theological advisers appointed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, ...
30 September 2014
AMERICA/PERU - How to prevent child labor and ensure adequate opportunities for growth
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Tierra de Niños" is the name of an organization established in Peru with the aim of offering aid to families and in the educational and social field so that boys, girls and adolescents acquire se ...
30 September 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I to "Muslim brothers": condemn violent extremism that exploits religion
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope you openly express your rejection and your condemnation of violent religious extremism, because it distorts religion". This is the appeal that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, ...
30 September 2014
ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The Latin Bishops of the region discuss the pastoral care of immigrants in the Arabian Peninsula
Ras Al Khaimah (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (CELRA) began yesterday, September 29, and will continue until Thursday, October 2. This year the meeting will be held ...
29 September 2014
ASIA/INDIA - The High Court: It is legitimate to declare that one does not belong to any religion
Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The Bombay High Court has ruled that the State cannot "compel any citizen to disclose his religion while submitting forms or declarations": the decision reaffirms the secular character of Indian ...
29 September 2014
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Child workers: the exploitation of children represents a permanent crisis
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The exploitation of child labor in Guatemala represents a permanent crisis, where the perpetrators of this heinous phenomenon are mostly family members or friends of the family, who force ...
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