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11 June 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "necessary to ensure the rights of all religions throughout the Country"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Religion is a powerful social force, but it can be used for both good and evil. The role that the political system assigns to religion has a lot to do with the impact it can have on the nation, f ...
11 June 2014
AFRICA - Economics and Finance: Is Africa the continent of the future?
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is the largest promising market for investments of European and American multinationals. This was stated in a study conducted by the Wall Street Journal on the Frontier Markets Sentiment In ...
11 June 2014
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The plight of child migrants from Central America and forced to repatriate
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Pentagon has announced that it will host 1,800 undocumented children who arrived alone in the United States, mostly from Central America, because their number has exceeded the carrying ca ...
11 June 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Kirkuk defended by the Kurdish Peshmerga. In churches one prays: enough violence and pain
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The villages around Kirkuk are already beyond the control of the Iraqi government, while in the urban area people are locked up in the house and the Kurdish Peshmerga militia have come from Kurdi ...
10 June 2014
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A motorway to unite the country ... even the Church is moving
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic, His Exc. Mgr. José Dolores Grullón Estrella, the population of the capital has discouraged the President of the Re ...
10 June 2014
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Projects in favor of Children: day care, healthy eating, education
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Attention and special measures for Ecuadorian children are some of the objectives of the local government Currently, thanks to a program that is part of the project of Infant Buen Vivir (CIBV) cen ...
10 June 2014
AFRICA/ERITREA - "A desolated and grief-stricken Country, this is why the population flees", denounce the Bishops
Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to emigrate if one lives in a decent Country" say the Bishops of Eritrea in a 36 page pastoral letter, written on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of the Coun ...
10 June 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A country under terrorist attack: civil society calls for the commitment of the government
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Terrorism in Pakistan has become a very serious problem in recent years. The death toll of terrorist attacks has risen to about 60,000 over the past 13 years. The government is protecting instit ...
10 June 2014
ASIA/INDIA – Poor or non-existent sanitation facilities in the state schools of Madurai district
Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - In Madurai district, the oldest city in Tamil, there are 1,226 public schools. Last year the Ministry of Education identified 210 schools in the district with no bathrooms. According to the Righ ...
10 June 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Yes to amnesty for Boko Haram, as long as there is sincere repentance and compensation for the victims" says Cardinal Onaiyekan
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the duty of government to ensure justice and enforce good order normally entails punishing criminals, this may at times not exclude offering pardon and amnesty", said Cardinal John Oloru ...
10 June 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - ISIL rebels seize Mosul. Christians flee to the Nineveh Plain
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), conquered in the late evening of Monday, June 9th the seat of the provincial government in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. The g ...
10 June 2014
ASIA/MYANMAR - Three years of war and abuse on ethnic minorities: appeal for peace by civil society
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The end of the war with the Kachin minority, stop to violence and abuse of human rights, the start of a serious negotiating table: is what a forum of more than 55 Burmese and international organi ...
10 June 2014
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - USCCB General Assembly - 2014 June
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) 2014 General Assembly (spring session) will be held in New Orleans from 11 to 13 June. On this occasion, according to the note sent to ...
10 June 2014
AMERICA/BRAZIL - World Cup: everything ready, but who has thought about the safety of children?
Fortaleza (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the start of the World Cup, to be held from 12 June to 13 July in 12 Brazilian cities, a group of institutions have raised the alarm about the safety of children and adolesce ...
9 June 2014
Vatican - Without the Holy Spirit there is no mission, there is no evangelization
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus was peremptory with the Apostles were not to leave Jerusalem until they have received from the power of the Holy Spirit. Without Him there is no mission, there is no evangelization. ...
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