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5 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-The Auxiliary of Lahore: "Thanks to firm faith, the status of Christians has improved "
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "To remain steadfast in faith": is the appeal to the faithful by His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Francis Shaw (OFM), auxiliary Bishop and apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese of Lahore, on the occa ...
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5 June 2012
ASIA/THAILAND-Alarming phenomenon of child trafficking: forced to sell flowers and to beg
Pak Kred (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangkok, about 1 thousand children are given for "rent" for very little money from the poorest families to traffickers who force them to beg and sell flowers on the streets. According to the ...
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5 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ashton should speak of religious minorities, religious freedom, blasphemy": appeal of the NGOs
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Abuses against religious minorities, human rights, religious freedom, the blasphemy law: these are the hot spots and issues of "serious concern" that Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative f ...
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5 June 2012
AFRICA/MALI-The divisions of the North could favour a Pan-African military intervention
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - " Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, is engaged in raising the morale of the army to prepare it for a possible intervention in the north. Last weekend he traveled to the Tibou region to meet mi ...
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4 June 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Maryknoll Missionary awarded the "Humanitarian Award of Hong Kong" for commitment in favour of prisoners, the elderly and poor
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Thomas A. Peyton, 81, a missionary of the Society for Foreign Missions, Maryknoll, was honored with the Red Cross of the Hong Kong Special Administration "for his contributions to the car ...
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4 June 2012
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The truce on behalf of armed gangs, an example to stop violence in the Central American area
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) –It depends on the Church in every country to try to bring forward the mediation between gangs, which together with drug traffickers and other criminal groups have exacerbated the violence ...
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4 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christians and Muslims re-launch the values of dialogue, tolerance, unity
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - While the country is ravaged by sectarian violence and the growth of religious extremism, Christian and Muslim leaders re-launch the values of dialogue, peace and tolerance. "Meeting, dialogue, p ...
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4 June 2012
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Two statements of the responsible of Shabaab suggest a crisis in the fundamentalist movement
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Somali Islamist group Shabaab seems to be weakened by recent military and diplomatic developments and are internally divided. On the military side, with the conquest of Afgoyee in ...
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4 June 2012
AMERICA/PERU - Week of Migrants: intensify missionary activity in the field of human mobility
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 to 7 June "National Week of the Migrant and his family", coordinated by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferen ...
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4 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - "The desolation of Homs and the war of information ": the words of a greek-catholic Archimandrite
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Syria could be saved if everyone told the truth. After a year of conflict, the reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media": says a test ...
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4 June 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops are devastated for the "Black Sunday" in Nigeria
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled and shocked by the two tragedies that hit Nigeria yesterday, the airplane crash in Lagos that killed 153 people, and the attack on a Christian church in Bauchi," says to Fides His ...
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4 June 2012
AFRICA/DR CONGO -Malnutrition and violence the innocent children and the population of Goma
are having to face
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 4, is the "International Day of Innocent Children Victims of aggression" sponsored by the United Nations. The young ones and the entire population of North Kivu suffer the climate of te ...
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2 June 2012
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - It is important to bring war criminals to justice, but we also need to improve the population's economic and social advancement
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experience in Sierra Leone, sent his contribution to Fides Agency on the situation in Sierra Leone in the light of former Liberian Presid ...
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1 June 2012
EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Day for hundreds of boys and girls of the PSMC dedicated to Blessed John Paul II
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - There were about 1,700 children from different Polish dioceses, gathered in Warsaw for the ninth national Congress organized by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PSMC) in Poland. Th ...
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1 June 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - 60 years of Camillian mission in Taiwan, "so that the sick are assisted with compassion and professionalism"
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The 60-year mission of the Camillians (Ministers of the Sick) in Taiwan have been fully inspired by the spirituality of St. Camillus de Lellis: so that the sick are cared for with compassion and ...
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