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25 June 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - The Synod of the Chaldean Church begins with a Mass to ask for the gift of peace
Ankawa (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Synod of the Chaldean Church, housed in the town of Ankawa, a few miles from Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, began on Tuesday, June 24, with the celebration of the Mass presided by Patriarc ...
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25 June 2014
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Address the problem of Rwandan Hutu militias once and for all" ask the missionaries
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The recent armed clashes at the border of the two Countries between the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, shows, according to the missionaries of the Network for Peace in ...
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24 June 2014
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Children and young immigrants in the U.S.A: "They are not seeking adventure, they are fleeing from a war"
El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - On behalf of the United States Bishops' Conference, the Bishop of El Paso (Texas), His Exc. Mgr. Mark Joseph Seitz, will bring the testimony of the Catholic Church regarding children and young u ...
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24 June 2014
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Over 160 thousand immigrants in Texas, 37 thousand children are alone
El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - According to data released by the spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security of Texas, of the Border Police and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, so far this year 2014 at least 160, ...
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24 June 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Historic decision: the birth of the "National Council for the rights of minorities"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is a glimmer of hope for minorities in Pakistan with a historic decision, the Supreme Court has ordered the government to establish the "National Council for the rights of minorities", an i ...
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24 June 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal of Christian and Muslim leaders: "Pursue political dialogue for peaceful settlement and end the war"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop war and start talking". This is the urgent appeal by Christian and Muslim religious leaders to the government and the rebels of South Sudan so that thay apply the peace agreements signed on 1 ...
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24 June 2014
ASIA/NEPAL - 40 Christian leaders arrested for "forced conversions": religious freedom at risk
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - More than 40 Christian leaders were arrested, and then released, accused of alleged "forced conversions of Hindus". As Fides learns, the Nepalese police executed the wave of arrests, all leade ...
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24 June 2014
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Mission to relieve" the missionary campaign against human trafficking in persons
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission to relieve" is the theme of the Missionary Campaign 2014 which will be held during the month of October in Brazil. As highlighted in the note sent to Fides by the PMS in Brazil, "the t ...
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24 June 2014
AFRICA/KENYA - Christian leaders: "call off political rallies, demonstrations, one has to work to stop violence"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have watched in recent days as politicians who promised and swore that never again would Kenya walk the sad road of ethnic violence of 2007/2008, move around inciting Kenyans against one ano ...
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24 June 2014
ASIA/JORDAN - A thousand children born in the refugee camp in Zaatari. The director of Caritas: we give them a future
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Little Aisha, born on May 27, is the thousandth among infants born in the clinic in the Zaatari refugee camp, 80 kilometers northeast of Amman, where there are at least 85 thousand Syrian refugees ...
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24 June 2014
AFRICA/KENYA - Clean water and health care to reduce mortality among the most vulnerable
Isiolo (Agenzia Fides) - In the rural county of Isiolo in central Kenya, more than 143 thousand people devoted mainly to agriculture live. Due to poor sanitation, diseases caused by unclean water (gastro-intestinal infec ...
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24 June 2014
ASIA/TURKEY - The restoration of the cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is almost complete
Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - The cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is still closed and restoration work is not yet complete. But the prefecture authority has granted permission, however, to the Christians of Antioch, Iske ...
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24 June 2014
AFRICA/GUINEA - Control and prevent outbreaks of cholera with a highly effective oral vaccine
New York (Agenzia Fides) - An oral cholera vaccine proved to be 86 percent effective in controlling the disease during a recent outbreak in Guinea. Researchers with Epicentre, the research arm of the humanitarian organiz ...
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23 June 2014
AMERICA/PERU - Disabled children integrated in public schools in the south-west area of the Country
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru, in collaboration with Caritas Germany, has promoted the project "educational and social inclusion of children and young people with disabilities in the southwestern region of Peru". A ...
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23 June 2014
AMERICA/HONDURAS - It is time to take action! More than 13 thousand children and young Hondurans at the U.S. Border
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Children should be in every policy decision and in all social action, we cannot destroy them with bad decisions", said the Vicar of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in Tegucigalpa, Fathe ...
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