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4 June 2013
AFRICA/NIGER - The assault on the prison of Niamey reveals the links between Boko Haram and groups of Mali
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The assault on the prison of Niamey (see Fides 03/06/2013) was carried out by a commando of the Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram sect. This was stated by the Minister of Justice of Niger who noted th ...
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4 June 2013
VATICAN - The conditions of Christians in Iraq and Egypt: Reunion of the Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches (ROACO), the committee which unites funding agencies from various countries around the world for the sake of providing assistance in ...
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4 June 2013
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Malnutrition causes learning difficulties to a quarter of children around the world
London (Agenzia Fides) - In the developing countries, and the poorest in the world, malnutrition has serious consequences in the field of literacy as well as being a major obstacle for progress against infant mortality. ...
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4 June 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pressures of the police to save the rapists of a young Christian
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sectors of the police have moved to save the rapists of a Christian girl, Fouzia Bibi, a 15-year-old in the district of Kasur in Punjab, brutally raped by two Muslim men Shabir Ali and Sher Moham ...
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4 June 2013
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The opposition warns the ruling party: "dissolve the militia or we will be forced to defend ourselves"
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Nevers Mumba, President of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), the main opposition party in Zambia, has demanded the ruling party, the Patriotic Front (PF), to dissolve the youth militia ...
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3 June 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - What does the future hold for Christians after the election? The problem concerning blasphemy
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - What future do Christians have in Pakistan? After the recent elections that brought to power the "Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz" (PML-N) party and decreed new Premier Nawaz Sharif, many Christi ...
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3 June 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - 2 migrants who had denounced extortion have been killed, the Church asks for protection
San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The killing of two Honduran immigrant women on 30 May in Chiapas, in southern Mexico, was a revenge on behalf of a gang dedicated to extortion of undocumented immigrants that ...
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3 June 2013
AMERICA/COLORADO - Children hospitalized with respiratory crisis for having ingested marijuana
Denver (Agenzia Fides) - The consumption of marijuana is legal in 18 States and in Washington. In Colorado baked food, candies and fizzy drinks containing this so-called light drug, is sold to relieve pain, for example, ...
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3 June 2013
AFRICA/NIGER - About a dozen people have died in the assault in the prison in Niamey
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Ten people have died in the assault in the prison in Niamey on Saturday, June 1, during which about twenty prisoners escaped, including some dangerous jihadists. This was stated to Fides Agency b ...
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3 June 2013
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Pre-meditated attack against a peaceful gathering in a church
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Oasis Forum and its constituent members are appalled and shocked by the behavior of the Patriotic Front (PF, the ruling party) cadres who attacked a peaceful gathering of several civil socie ...
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3 June 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo: "Chaos and rubble in Syria. United with the Pope we call for dialogue "
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We see only chaos and destruction in a conflict that is against everything and everyone. In a country disfigured, with the civilian population led to the slaughter, Pope Francis’ appeal calls ...
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3 June 2013
ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Pelatre with regards to the riots: the prospect of compromise seems to have the upper hand
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The riots which broke out in Turkey are a "warning sign" that the Turkish government might want to consider if it is to protect the stability that in the past 10 years has favored the country's ...
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3 June 2013
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 19 April 2013 appointed rev. Fr. Christiaans Willem, O.S.F.S as National Director of the Pontific ...
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29 May 2013
AMERICA/CHILE - Complaint by a religious group for violence against Mapuche children
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A group of men and women religious and priests engaged in the pastoral work with Mapuche communities, composed of the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern ...
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29 May 2013
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 24 April 2013 appointed Fr. Michael Abdo Abdo OCD as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
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