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4 January 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - Farewell to death penalty: all those condemned to death sentence are commuted to life imprisonment
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a further turning point, announced by the government of Myanmar, in the field of the new measure of amnesty which concerns hundreds of prisoners: in addition to significant reductions in pu ...
4 January 2012
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - After 20 years since the Peace Agreements, the Church calls for a new national social Pact
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The budget of twenty years is positive but today the country needs "something more": just days before the 20th anniversary of the historic "peace agreements" signed on January 16, 1992 in ...
4 January 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sad toll for 2011 in Colombia: 117 children killed
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011 117 children were murdered in Colombia, 41 of them under 5 years of age. This is what emerges from the statistics, sent to Fides, on the toll statements released at the end of 2011 concer ...
4 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taseer’s murder "a disgrace to Pakistan, where nothing has changed"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "A year after the death of Governor Salman Taseer, who was killed on January 4, 2011, nothing has changed. The human rights defenders are fearful and silent. The blasphemy law seems to be untouch ...
3 January 2012
EUROPE/POLAND - The "Star Singers" of Czestochowa help the children of Sudan
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people of Holy Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, in the days between 26 December 2011 and January 6, 2012, are giving birth to their now usual Christmas activit ...
3 January 2012
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for an election campaign without violence
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, has asked the aspirants to the presidency of the Republic for a campaign that is worthy of the importance of consult ...
3 January 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Every day 41 children disappear, involved in criminal gangs or destined to exploitation
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico 41 children disappear every day. According to UNICEF, over the past 5 years over 75 000 children have gone missing, of whom about 20 000 are victims of traffickers. In the period 2 ...
3 January 2012
AMERICA/PERU - More than 492 000 families in extreme poverty sustained in 2011
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011, the social program Juntos supported a total of 492,871 families in Peru who live in extreme poverty in 702 districts of 116 provinces of 14 departments. This social initiative is active in ...
3 January 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" pastoral letter for 2012 of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" is the theme of the 2012 pastoral letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, signed on January 1, Solemnity of ...
3 January 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "It is not enough to add years to life, but it is necessary to give life to years"
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In a long homily during the Mass on the first day of the new year, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, highlighted that Honduras has its sense of direction, ...
3 January 2012
AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops make the program known about the Pope's visit to Cuba
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mexican Episcopal Conference (see Fides 02/01/2012), the Cuban Episcopal Conference announced the program of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Cuba The text of the statement, of which a co ...
3 January 2012
ASIA - "Asian of the Year": the Catholic Shabhaz Bhatti or the dissident Ai Weiwei?
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Is Shabhaz Bhatti, a Pakistani Catholic minister murdered, or Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident and blogger the "Asian of the Year 2011"? : this is the debate registered by Fides among organiz ...
3 January 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR-New rules for the labour law, less military spending: Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - New rules concerning the labour law are urgent and are "strategically important" for Myanmar; the state budget should cut military spending and invest in employment, health, education: this is wh ...
2 January 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than one million child workers in the country
Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest figures of the population census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), over a million children aged between 10 and 14 continue to wor ...
2 January 2012
AFRICA/SOMALIA -Famine emergency is still far from resolved
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Somali Prime Minister denies that the population of Mogadishu is dying of hunger, contradicting the United Nations and the sad landscape of increasingly crowded fields of malnourished peop ...
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