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30 April 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Intimidation and abuse of Christians in Orissa: homes destroyed, faithful thrown out
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians who survived the violence in 2008 cannot find peace and are still today victims of abuse and intimidation: this is what was said by Fr. Ajay Kumar Singh, a Catholic priest i ...
30 April 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Elections among violence and attacks. Patriarch Sako: The policies of the West are due to the diaspora of Middle Eastern Christians
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open seats, despite the strict security ...
30 April 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child soldiers leave school to "avenge" their parents' death
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Oil interests and the politics of the area, in force since the colonial era, have generated great division and hatred among the people of Sudan. In an endless cycle of violence and thousands of dis ...
30 April 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Assiut. Two Christians killed
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Two Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on Tuesday, April 29th due to sectarian clashes which broke out in villages in the area of the city of Assiut, Upper Egypt, due to the contrasts between ...
30 April 2014
AMERICA/PANAMA - First Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The first Congress on human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 12 to 16 May 2014 in Panama. As Fides learns, the event is organized by several Catholic groups that have ...
29 April 2014
VATICAN CITY - Annual General Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies begins May 5
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The greetings and the Report of His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, Secretary-Adjunct of th ...
29 April 2014
AFRICA/CENTRAL ARICAN REPUBLIC - Sixteen unarmed civilians, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Borders, killed at Boguila Hospital
Boguila (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, dozens of heavily armed Muslim rebels opened fire in a hospital in Central African Republic, killing at least 16 people, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Bor ...
29 April 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC thanks Pope Francis for his interest regarding peace talks
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) have asked the Catholic Church to continue to follow, thanks to the encouragement expressed by Pope Francis, the peace talks being held in Havana, wi ...
29 April 2014
ASIA/INDONESIA - Lawyers and Islamic activists contest the application of the Sharia law to non-Muslims
Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - A clause in Aceh's new Islamic criminal procedural codes, finally approved in February could see non-Muslims tried in Sharia Court (see Fides 15/02/2014 ), but lawyers, legal experts and huma ...
29 April 2014
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Human trafficking, especially children, in Goma", denounces the local civil society
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A network of human traffickers, most of whom are children, work in Goma, capital of North Kivu (in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The complaint, in a note sent to Fides Agency, is b ...
29 April 2014
AMERICA/HAITI - International organizations committed to solving the new political crisis
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides ) - Yesterday, April 28 a delegation of the "Club of Madrid" met Prime Minister of Haiti Laurent Lamothe, with whom they discussed the need to hold elections this year, surpassing the new po ...
29 April 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million child workers, and 27% suffer from extreme poverty
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Children's Day, established by the United Nations on 30 April, the Mexican authorities have committed themselves to strengthening the struggle for the defense of children' ...
28 April 2014
ASIA/MYANMAR - Resignation of the Bishop of Loikaw and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Loikaw (Myanmar) by His Exc. Mgr. Sotero Phamo, in accordance with can. 401 § 2 of ...
28 April 2014
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Children sold for sexual and labor exploitation and for the sale of organs
Potosí (Agenzia Fides) - Child trafficking continues to increase silently in the region of Potosí in Bolivia, the poorest in the Country. According to a recent report published by the local press, until 2012, 15 000 ch ...
28 April 2014
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Transparency in everything, because people must have confidence
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of El Salvador has ruled on the government's initiative to propose a truce among gangs to end the violence and said that any attempt regarding social peace must be b ...
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