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3 July 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 6 hospitals looted or burned in a few months, at least 58 people killed in the hospitals
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in hospitals and the destruction of medical facilities are denying medical services to many of South Sudan's most vulnerable people, said Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the report: "Sout ...
3 July 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historic meeting between religious communities for peace in the country
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics, Jews and Muslims in Colombia have signed an historic joint declaration for peace. As FIdes learns, the agreement took place on 1 July in Bogota, in the presence of Cardinal Ruben Salaz ...
3 July 2014
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - 1,512 suspected cases of chikungunya in addition to 5,698 confirmed cases of dengue
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Ministry of Health in El Salvador (MINSAL) there are 1,512 suspected cases of chikungunya in the State of El Salvador. Most of them in the department of San Salvador, with ...
2 July 2014
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: No to the restoration of the death penalty
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday July 2, reiterated its opposition to restore the death penalty. In the note sent to Fides, the Bishops recall the Gospel passage ...
2 July 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - Immigrant children: now even more controls on the southern border of Mexico
Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - The northern and southern borders of Mexico are completely different: while the northern border with the United States is guarded by thousands of police and cameras, the southern border was virt ...
2 July 2014
ASIA/VIETNAM - "Christian family, the cradle of vocations to priesthood" for the Church in Vietnam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A careful family pastoral, prayer, and the quality of faith in families, are the secrets to keeping the vocations to priesthood alive in Vietnam: "If a family is holy, there are vocations", ...
2 July 2014
AFRICA/CONGO R.D. - The Bishops recall "the sacred duty to protect the nation and preserve peace"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A message of peace and hope to the Congolese people" was addressed by the Bishops of the African country at the end of the plenary Assembly of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO ...
2 July 2014
AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian crisis and lack of investment in social sectors affect 70% of children
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict in 9 of the 18 States of Sudan continues to aggravate the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees. The phenomenon affects mainly children, in fact 70% of the ...
2 July 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - A young Palestinian kidnapped and killed. Patriarch Twal: Stop human sacrifice
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not worthy of political and religious leaders to support, feed, foment revenge. Revenge calls for revenge, blood calls for blood. And innocent people who are killed, all the children ki ...
2 July 2014
AMERICA/PERU - Legislation for therapeutic abortion is "immoral, unconstitutional and illegal"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Peru, faced with the approval of the National Technical Guide for therapeutic abortion by the Ministry of Health, are turning to the Catholic faithful, citizenship and especially to ...
2 July 2014
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign in schools in favor of children on the issue of responsibility
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - Even this year, the Catholic Church of San Pedro Sula has launched the campaign for Children 2014 in all educational institutes in the city. This is the 36th edition and has the theme of ...
1 July 2014
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Political crisis: Bishops’ appeal for the common good
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Honesty and commitment to the common good are essential ingredients of politics. An authentic political authority in a democratic system is accountable to the people it represents. It seem ...
1 July 2014
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Still difficulty for many undocumented Haitians
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The ordeal for the descendants of migrants, mostly Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who need to regularize their position otherwise risk losing their citizenship continues. Des ...
1 July 2014
ASIA/TAIWAN - Half a century at the service of the Church and of society, and religious institutes look to the future
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Union of Superiors of Religious Women Institutes in Taiwan was the occasion to better look at the biggest problems that religious institutes active ...
1 July 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Helping indigenous women and promoting their social and economic development
Chintapalli (Agenzia Fides) - Helping Indigenous women to start units of “Mutual Aided Cooperative Societies” (MACS) among them in order to promote their socio-economic development is a new project by the Salesians i ...
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