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15 April 2011
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tension is high in Ouagadougou for the military revolt
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – Uncertain situation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, where a military revolt forced President Blaise Campaoré to take refuge in his native village (Ziniaré, about thirty mile ...
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14 April 2011
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Religious freedom denied, over 50 thousand Christians in prison camps
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights trampled and denied freedom of religion, more than 50 thousand Christians in prison camps for their faith, victims of a judicial system based strictly on ideology of the regime: this ...
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14 April 2011
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Christian missionary in prison, "Week of Prayer for Freedom" in North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian missionary, an American citizen, will be put on trial in North Korea for "crimes against the nation": this is Jun Young-Su, a lay missionary of the Church of Orange County, California ...
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14 April 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - "Providing weapons just means extending the war, " says Bishop Martinelli
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, or rather a way to lenghthening it, " says Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Trip ...
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14 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - "People need help, we must intervene: 25 000 refugees in the parish of the Salesians in Duékoué
Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast who does not recognize the election of his successor, Alassane Ouattara, does not put an end to the tragic situation tha ...
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14 April 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Profession of the Rule for 5 members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Five members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong have made a profession of the Rule on April 3. Among them was Don Francis Tam Kam Wing, the Hong Kong diocesan priest, who said that th ...
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14 April 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Serious outbreak of measles since the beginning of the year 6,524 cases and 33 deaths have been recorded
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A cholera outbreak in Katanga province continues to exacerbate another outbreak of measles which in the last six months has affected the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Children infected w ...
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14 April 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egypt supports the mediation of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III with Ethiopia over the Nile waters
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Shenouda III, spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church could play a role as mediator in the dispute that opposes Egypt and Ethiopia for the redistribution of the Nile waters. According ...
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14 April 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment": Bishops' document
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB) presented the pastoral letter: "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment." The press conference was chaired by Archbishop Oscar Apar ...
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14 April 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Visit of solidarity by PM Pauletti in Haiti: "Involved in concrete support"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, Father Camilo Pauletti, spent a week in Haiti (April 2 to 9) and was able to see the problems, experiences and hopes of th ...
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14 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "United as sisters in Christ": a letter from a cloistered nun to Asia Bibi
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "I feel very close to Asia Bibi, to her suffering, as a sister in Christ" writes Sister Mary Immaculate Perez to Fides, abbess of the nuns from the Franciscan Monastery Conception of Escalona ...
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13 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girls, victims of forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In Pakistan forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages are on the rise. The victims are mostly Hindu and Christian girls, belonging to religious minorities, complain Fides local s ...
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13 April 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - The Christian Churches in Tripoli ask for “an immediate and unconditional ceasefire by all parties involved”
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The violence and bloodbath must stop immediately, as war is not the solution to the current problems,” affirms a statement by the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches in Tripoli (Libya) ...
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13 April 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Good Friday march and prayer for the victims of the rising anti-Christian attacks
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – On Good Friday, 22 April, there will be a silent pilgrimage, accompanied by fasting and prayer on the streets of Mumbai for more than 20,000 Indian Christians of all denominations. The initiati ...
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13 April 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - “The fundamentalist message can not take root among the youth of the revolution,” says Fr Verdoscia from Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrest of Mubarak was probably also determined by the former President's speech on television. The promoters of the revolt in Tahrir Square criticized Mubarak for defending himself, pointin ...
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