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19 May 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Tumaco: "here the State has not existed for years, childhood is abandoned to its fate"
Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - "In Tumaco children are taken away by the FARC and criminal gangs, they are simply taken away for their war": is the complaint by His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Giron Higuita, OCD, Bishop of Tumaco, who p ...
19 May 2014
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – Missionary children evangelize their peers with the first Bible in Oromo language
Kofale (Agenzia Fides) - The first "little missionaries" left from Kofale, Arsi region of Ethiopia, ready to evangelize their peers in Gode. With their notebooks, in which were represented the most salient scenes of the ...
19 May 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians, Ahmadis and a TV station: new victims of the blasphemy law
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan. The last cases reported by Fides concern some Christians, Ahmadis, and a popular TV station - "Geo Tv".
As Fides learns on 17 May a blas ...
19 May 2014
ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Christians flee from Aleppo, besieged city
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their luggage, closed their homes and fled to the coas ...
19 May 2014
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Humanitarian agencies: interventions are urgently needed for the population
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Somali crisis has hit the Country for more than 20 years. Currently famine, war and disease exacerbate the situation. Humanitarian agencies that are having to cope with a further imminent ...
17 May 2014
AMERICA/PERU - Ceramic workshop in prison, with the help of the local Church
Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - The prison in the city of La Oroya in the central Andes of Peru, has opened a ceramic workshop equipped with the machinery required for all stages of the production process. The inauguration ce ...
17 May 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Historic agreement in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, May 16, the session on the third point in the talks between the representatives of the Peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC ...
17 May 2014
ASIA/ISRAEL - A detention camp in the Negev desert. Full of Christians
Holot (Agenzia Fides) In the Negev desert there is a detention center with more than two thousand prisoners, mostly of Christian faith. We are talking about the center of Holot, where Eritreans and Sudanese who arrive in ...
16 May 2014
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe are on the rise: 241 cases in 2013
Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2013, the Observatory on intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe (see Fides 1/10/2010) recorded 241 cases of intolerance against Christians in law and politics, th ...
16 May 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate: priests must not make electoral propaganda
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - To all the Copt priests of Alexandria explicit provision was given not to directly support candidates for the coming elections, limiting the role of the Church to an awareness campaign on the impo ...
16 May 2014
AMERICA/HAITI - A center to transform cassava into flour and cope with food insecurity
Torbeck (Agenzia Fides) - Food insecurity in Haiti is strongly linked to the importation of food. To cope with this phenomenon, which in the Caribbean Country affects more than 600 million people, a cassava processing ce ...
16 May 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Christians: for a prosperous future, the new government has to limit Hindu extremist groups
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the official outcome of the Indian elections marked the victory of the nationalist "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), its leader Narendra Modi, likely to become the next Prime Minister, ann ...
16 May 2014
AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 18, 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Joao Augusto Mendes Martins, of the clergy of Santiago de Cabo ...
16 May 2014
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Basic Ecclesial Communities: the new face of the Church at the service of justice and peace
El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - From July 10 to 13, the XI National Meeting of the Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC) will be held in the Diocese of El Alto, with the slogan: "To build a new face of the Church from the BEC. For ...
16 May 2014
AMERICA/HAITI - Three years of Martelly’s presidency, among acclaim and requests for resignation
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly celebrated his third year of the presidential office on May 14 by listing a series of successes in front of hundreds of supporters, while the opposition ...
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