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23 June 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appeal of the UNHCR to the Dominican government: the consequences of expulsion could be devastating
New York (Agenzia Fides) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the government of the Dominican Republic not to deport tens of thousands of people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of t ...
23 June 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Mass for solidarity and to ask to stop the deportation of Haitians from Santo Domingo
New York (Agenzia Fides) - The battle to avoid the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who according to recent local legislation cannot obtain Dominican citizenship, has moved ...
23 June 2015
AFRICA/KENYA - The exhortation of Mgr. Pante to 600,000 refugees welcomed in Kenya: "Do not lose hope"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 15 minutes a person becomes displaced in the world", recalled His Exc. Mgr. Virgilio Pante, Bishop of Maralal and Vice President of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Kenya E ...
23 June 2015
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops: "The representation of minorities in Parliament has to be ensured"
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Every authentic and healthy democracy must ensure the representation of linguistic, ethnic and religious minorities in Parliament: with this belief the Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka officially e ...
23 June 2015
AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 June 2015 the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, by His Exc. Mgr. Francisco González Hernández, ...
23 June 2015
AFRICA/RWANDA - Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London
London (Agenzia Fides) – It is believed that a diplomatic row will break out between the UK and Spain, on the one hand, and Rwanda on the other, due to the arrest of General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake in London, head of t ...
23 June 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal from Torit: the few NGOs that have remained in South Sudan must not leave over 4 million displaced alone
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary that the international community intervenes forcefully to stop the fratricidal war between the supporters of President Salava Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar", says, in ...
23 June 2015
ASIA/ISRAEL - Tensions between Druze and Israeli government for medical aid provided to the anti-Assad militiamen
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between the Israeli army and the Druze residents of the Golan Heights continue after a group of them attacked an Israeli ambulance on Monday, June 22 which was carrying two militants ...
22 June 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros receives a delegation of Chinese People
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese delegation led by Wang Zuo'an, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs of the Republic of China (SARA), was received on 18 June by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros I ...
22 June 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years after the attack against the elderly, the case has not yet been solved
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years ago members of the Sandinista Youth attacked a group of young people who were accompanying the elderly who were protesting outside the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security to ask ...
22 June 2015
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped on June 8 has been released, no ransom was paid
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Don Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict in Ido-Ekiti (in southwestern Nigeria), kidnapped on 8 June (see Fides 11/06/2015) has been released. This was confirmed to the local press by Hi ...
22 June 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Hunger strike in 12 states for political prisoners, the Church has been asked to intervene
Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Merida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, yesterday met young people on hunger strike in Mérida, during his visit to the church of El Llano (see Fides 03/06/2015; ...
22 June 2015
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Quevedo: "The disarmament of Islamic guerrillas is an important step for peace"
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - The beginning of the disarmament process of the Islamic militants of the "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" (MILF) is "a step that may seem small, but its importance should not be ignored": says C ...
22 June 2015
AFRICA/BURUNDI – Fear is widespread as legislative elections approach
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Even today there are demonstrations against the third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza in some neighborhoods in Bujumbura" say local sources from the capital of Burundi to Agenzia Fides. " ...
22 June 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Reopening of the church of the miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves; gathering to protest against the arson attack
Tabgha (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Christians in Galilee gathered on Sunday, June 21 at the Church of the miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, made the subject of an arson attack last Thur ...
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