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9 June 2012
ASIA/IRAN - A Protestant church ordered to close, the crackdown on churches continues
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - A Protestant church of the "Assembly of God" in the Janat-Abad area of Tehran, has been ordered the immediate closure by intelligence Branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to local ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/LAOS - "Too charismatic, too many conversions": A Christian Pastor arrested
Luang Namtha (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian leader was arrested in Laos. The Christian Pastor Asa Sing, 53 years of age, head of a Protestant Christian Church in the village of Peeyeur in the district of Sing, within the ...
9 June 2012
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Argentina, the national campaign "Zero Poverty, dignity for all" has begun
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Zero Poverty, dignity for all" is the title of the new campaign of Caritas Argentina, launched today, June 9, as Fides learned from the Episcopal Conference Argentina.
Mgr. Oscar Vicente ...
9 June 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - More than 500 thousand children without school education: emergency
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 thousand children in Haiti are without a school education, the overall illiteracy rate is over 50% and the right to education is denied to thousands of families: is the alar ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - Urgent reform of the judicial and penal system: essential step in the rule of law
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar must eliminate from the justice and penal system practices such as illegal and arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, forced confessions, processes behind closed doors, death ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Ultimatum to Christians: "Leave Qusayr"
Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - Exodus of Christians in the west of Syria: the Christian population has left the town of Qusayr, near Homs, following an ultimatum from the military chief of the armed opposition, Abdel Salam Har ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA-Appeal of the Greek catholic Patriarch: a month of fasting and abstinence for peace
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of massacres and bloody events experienced recently in Syria, Gregorios III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Damascus, has launched a heartfelt appeal to all the faith ...
8 June 2012
AFRICA/MALI - Clashes between rebels in northern Mali
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The separation between the two groups has now fully been realized" says Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Fides, confirming reports of clashes in the north bet ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of Corpus Christi in the sign of evangelization
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, commonly known as the Corpus Domini, was celebrated yesterday, Thursday, June 7, in several Chinese Catholic communities, ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bomb in front of a madrasa: the Church calls for the end to violence and peace
Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A bomb exploded today outside the gate of an Islamic religious school (madrasa) in Quetta, capital of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. The toll of the powerful explosion caused 15 victims a ...
8 June 2012
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Mobile Libraries for orphaned and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The activity of mobile libraries for orphaned and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS and for youth in situations of conflict has just been launched in Abidjan. The project, sponsored by the Ass ...
8 June 2012
AMERICA/PERU - Mining conflict: there is still no dialogue, despite the repeated requests of the Church
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church denounced the police for having unjustly accused her of instigating the violent anti-mining events that occurred in the southern province of Espinar, where last week two demonst ...
8 June 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Dialogue between Church and state must continue and be strengthened," said the Apostolic Nuncio
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice President of Venezuela, Elias Jaua, and the Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, met on Wednesday, June 6 with the Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, in order to str ...
8 June 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Bishops of Kivu launch the alarm of a large scale war
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There are consistent indications that evoke the specter of a war which still has hidden reasons". This was the warning given by the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu in eastern ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights and religious minorities: Pakistan under observation
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Increase efforts to protect human rights, enact laws on crucial issues such as torture, education and women's rights: is what the Pakistani government has asked the UN High Commissioner for Hu ...
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