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11 July 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - After the Bishops also international organizations denounce the serious situation in Chocò
Chocò (Agenzia Fides) - The representative in Colombia of the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations, Todd Howland, Bishop of the Diocese of Quibdó, Mgr. Juan Barreto, the "Defensor del Pueblo", Jorge ...
11 July 2014
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The struggle for survival of 40 000 female-headed households in the former war zone
Valipunam (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Valipunam, 322 kilometers north of the capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, is located in one of the remotest corners of the former war zone in the country. The dirt roads are impossi ...
11 July 2014
AFRICA/UGANDA - Over 200 religious leaders in Africa discuss Sustainable Development and the Post 2015 Development Agenda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Africa Faith leaders have agreed to involve their various constituencies in setting up a Post-2015 Development Agenda collective mechanism to ensure the full implementation of the goals that was ...
10 July 2014
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Insults and defamation: a campaign that has no political agenda
Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - Avoid insults and cowardly actions, instead worry about presenting a government program and make it known to the people: asked the Archbishop of Sucre and President of the Social Pastoral Caritas ...
10 July 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 9, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Theodore Mascarenhas, S.F.X., as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ranchi (India).
The Bishop-elect was born on November 9, 1960, in Ca ...
10 July 2014
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The worst outbreak of Ebola puts health workers at risk
Kenema (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone, along with neighboring Guinea and Liberia, are going through the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded before, 481 deaths have been reported since July 2 (see Fides 05/06/2014). Seven ...
10 July 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 3 children die every day; 50 thousand at risk for malnutrition, diseases and ethnic conflicts
Yuba (Agenzia Fides) - An average of three children die per day, and one in seven before the age of five, due to the severe humanitarian crisis in the Country. Three years after the independence of South Sudan, the popul ...
10 July 2014
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Catholic priest taken hostage by bandits has been released
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was taken hostage by bandits engaged in rustling in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. The incident occurred on July 8, when some armed thugs (called "Dahalo" which in M ...
10 July 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Third day of raids on Gaza. Caritas Jerusalem: security is not achieved by killing innocent children
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - According to local medical sources, the third day of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip began with 14 deaths including 7 women and 4 children. In one night between Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 ...
10 July 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The new President of the Episcopate reiterates that peace is the great challenge of the country
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, IMC, has been elected President of the Colombian Episcopal Conference (CEC). The new President met with representatives of the ...
10 July 2014
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appeal of Caritas: "Help us bring home more than 2,400 people expelled from Brazzaville"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched an appeal to help the Congolese expelled from the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) who find themselves in precarious conditio ...
10 July 2014
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai to Lebanese missionaries: the Arab world needs the Gospel
Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab world "needs the Gospel and its teachings: those of love, brotherhood, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation". This is what the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, ...
9 July 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Makurdi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, C.M.F., Provincial Bursar and military Chaplain, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Makurdi (Nigeria).
Fr. Wil ...
9 July 2014
AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the Bishop Coadjutor of Puerto Maldonado
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2014, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. David Martínez De Aguirre Guinea, O.P., advisor of the regional Dominican vicariate Santa Rosa de Lima, as coadjutor bishop of the apos ...
9 July 2014
ASIA/INDIA - The drama of tea pickers left to themselves
Dharanipur (Agenzia Fides) - A team run by the Jesuits in North Bengal is providing food and health care to the workers of a tea plantation where two people were killed at the end of last year, presumably due to causes r ...
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