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17 September 2011
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN-The Jesuits: no more cluster bombs, more hope for the country
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuit missionaries in Afghanistan have welcomed the ratification, announced by the government in Kabul, of the International Convention for the banning of cluster bombs, which prohibits the u ...
17 September 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church asks for more guarantees for the safety of journalists, "the martyrs of communication"
Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - Journalists are "courageous prophets", sometimes "martyrs of communication". The state needs to protect them, ensuring "the free practice and expression for those who carry out this profession", ...
17 September 2011
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Poor farmers sell kidneys to pay off debts: the complaint of the NGOs
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – It is a growing practice that is becoming a real scandal: in the North of Bangladesh, the poor farmers, who are reduced to poverty, sell their kidney to pay off debts. The transplant is carried ...
17 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - New violence against Christians, "for political reasons", says a Bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The new violence against Christians that takes place in Indian states like Madhya Pradesh or Karnataka (south-central India), are carried out "for political reasons," says. His Exc. Mgr. Ch ...
16 September 2011
AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Schools are closed for the orphans and the poor: the government does not pay fees
Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The vast majority of primary and secondary schools in Swaziland have not been able to start their school activities as the government has failed to solve the problem of the additional fees provi ...
16 September 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionary Campaign 2011: "Mission and Ecology"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary campaign for 2011 will officially be presented next Wednesday, September 21, at the national headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, in Brasilia,. Accor ...
16 September 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - The Commission for the Pastoral Care of Workers in Hong Kong urges HSBC to revoke the dismissal of 3 000 employees
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Revoke the decision to immediately dismiss 3 000 employees in 3 years, intensify the contact with the employees making them participate in the bank development, take upon oneself social respon ...
16 September 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya has changed, there is an atmosphere of tranquility and peace", says Mgr.Martinelli from Tripoli
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Libya has changed, there are other colors, there is even greater peace of mind" says His Exc. Mgr.Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who returned to the Libyan ...
16 September 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Radio Tepeyac, the radio station of the poor
San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Tepeyac has started broadcasting recently on the internet and only after a few days the number of "listeners via the Internet" has grown significantly, surpassing all e ...
16 September 2011
VATICAN - The professor of theology, real educator: course for theologians at ICMA
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of its specific commitment to "train the educators", the ICMA (International Centre for Missionary Animation) is organizing a French language course for theologians from 19 to 30 Se ...
16 September 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Half a million women abort each year; the Christian churches "committed to life"
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The issue on abortion will be on the agenda of the Commission of the Criminal Law of Deputies that will talk about this topic for the first time on Sept. 27. Representatives of those who su ...
16 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods in Sindh: aid denied to Christians and Hindus, the "untouchables" of religious minorities
Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Among the flood victims of Sindh (South of Pakistan), Christian and Hindu "Dalits" families, considered the "untouchables", are thrown out of refugee camps set up by the government and do no ...
16 September 2011
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - To talk about reconciliation to those who saw their parents being killed: witness of a missionary who takes care of the "hidden wounds" of the civil war
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is fairly calm but there is still much insecurity, especially in the evening, when there is a sort of unwritten curfew, so after 8pm nobody leaves the house, because security is n ...
15 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy against a Christian, the court invites him to "leave the country"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian high school teacher has suffered false accusations of blasphemy by a student and some Muslim professors, because of dislike, revenge and hatred towards Christians. He was forced to l ...
15 September 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Thousands of faithful pilgrims from all over China under the pouring rain at the Shrine of the Cross, the Calvary of the East
Mei Xian (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful Catholics coming from all over China went on a pilgrimage, under the pouring rain, to the Sanctuary of the Cross on Mount Pao Wo (nicknamed "the Calvary of the East"), in ...
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