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11 June 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops invite the winners of the elections to fulfil the promises made
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We have chosen to participate, now what do we have to do?"; with this title, the Episcopal Conference of Mexico issued a statement, also sent to Agenzia Fides, to motivate public opinion an ...
11 June 2015
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Three people killed in Bujumbura, but for the President the demonstrations have now finished
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Last night the police killed three people, a woman and two children, in a neighborhood in Bujumbura, where so far there had been no demonstrations" refer local sources from the Burundian capi ...
11 June 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist militants of al Nusra Front massacre dozens of Druze civilians in Idlib
Idlib (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadist militiamen linked to al-Nusra Front have massacred dozens of Druze civilians in Qalb Loza village, in the Mount Simmaq area, near the town of Idlib. Eyewitnesses of the massacre told ...
10 June 2015
AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for 129 small children with Aids
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A place where to find shelter, where everyone knows who they are and what they need, from medicines, food and a family. We are talking about Nyumbani children’s home in Nairobi, which includes ...
10 June 2015
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - National Director of the PMS: "Faith and youth walk together in East Timor"
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "In the young there is the seed of faith. People have trust in the Church and is attracted by the message of Christ. Today we have, in the two inter-diocesan seminaries, over 120 major seminarians ...
10 June 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Haiti to Brazil in the hands of human traffickers, with the hope of a better future
San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - Located in a central district of San Paolo (Brazil), the "Mision de Paz" managed by the Italian Scalabrini missionary Fr. Paolo Parisi, is one of the landmarks for the Haitian community of nea ...
10 June 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: a year after the fall of Mosul, only national reconciliation can save the country
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - On the first anniversary of what is called "the tragedy of Mosul" when the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) conquered the second city of Iraq, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis ...
10 June 2015
ASIA/LEBANON - The Lebanese pray for the unity of the Country in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - From 12 to 16 June, a series of liturgical celebrations and moments of Marian devotion will be held in various locations in Lebanon on the occasion of the second anniversary of the consecration o ...
10 June 2015
ASIA - Climate change and ecology at the attention of Asian churches
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of Asia focus their attention on environmental issues and climate change. As Fides learns, in view of the publication of Pope Francis’ Encyclical dedicated to the issues of protect ...
10 June 2015
AFRICA - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", says a UN African Special Representative
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", said the UN Special Representative for Central Africa, the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily, during a meeting of Heads of the UN missions, wh ...
10 June 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The inhabitants of port of Buenaventura subjected to "collective torture"
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The capture of Carlos Quintero, one of the most feared bosses of the criminal gang "La Empresa" which controls the port of Buenaventura (Colombia), and which is said to be the instigator of ...
10 June 2015
AFRICA/UGANDA - Fleeing insecurity and epidemics, Burundians pour into Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 7, ooo Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, had arrived in Uganda through Rwanda and Tanzania. The cholera outbreak and worsening sanitation conditions in some of the refug ...
10 June 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New appeal of Christian leaders to stop the "senseless war"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop immediately this senseless war that is bringing immense suffering to the South Sudanese people". This is the urgent appeal of the new South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC).
The appeal, whic ...
9 June 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Human trafficking, new areopagus of consecrated life in Latin America
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - During the Congress of Consecrated Life organized by CLAR (Latin American Conference of Religious), which will be held in Bogota (Colombia), from June 18 to 21, a workshop "Human trafficking: a n ...
9 June 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - The five Patriarchs of Antioch in Damascus: no to the disintegration of Syria
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The only path to follow to try to get out of the Syrian crisis is a "political solution", accompanied by the commitment of regional and global powers to counter the jihadist of the Islamic Stat ...
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