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28 May 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN – Children do not go to school in order to beg in the street
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of school-age boys and girls live and work in the street, earning a few cents a day to help their poor families. Among the initiatives to help these children, ...
27 May 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN – Changes to the blasphemy law: the government's bill, Christians approve
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan is moving to stop the abuse of the blasphemy law: the executive has in fact developed a bill that will be presented and discussed in Parliament for approval.
"It is a ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Tornado among the strongest recorded in the country affects Ciudad Acuña: 14 deaths and massive damage
Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña on May 25 has killed 13 people, 150 have been injured, 750 houses damaged and 4,000 without electricity. The phenomenon occurred around 6 am in the western pa ...
27 May 2015
ASIA/ISRAEL - Protest demonstration of Christian schools against discriminatory policies
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools of Israel staged an unprecedented demonstration to denounce the discriminatory policies. Nearly 700 among teachers, parents and children, and religious gathered at 11 am on W ...
27 May 2015
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "We are going back to chaos," says a missionary after the vote to remove the President
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is discouraged because there is a feeling of returning to the chaos that characterized the political life of the island for years", says to Fides Fr. Luca Trengia, Director ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops’ refelection: "Thinking Brazil", social inequalities in Brazil
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The second volume of "Thinking Brazil" has been published. The text, approved on the occasion of the general Assembly of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) held in April in Apa ...
27 May 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian Churches: "Stop the violence, instigated by leaders, most of whom call themselves Christians"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "People are being killed, raped and tortured. (...). Children are being recruited into armed groups and looting is endemic", denounces the South Sudan Council of Churches, the body that brings toge ...
27 May 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - Assyrian hostages: jihadists release two women
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Two elderly women in the group of more than 230 Assyrian Christians taken hostage in February by the State Islamic jihadists in the Syrian north-western region of Jazira, have been released and ...
27 May 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Radio and TV to announce the Gospel in the Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez
Nuflo de Chavez (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of San Julian of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nuflo de Chavez is working on a radio-television center of the parish. The community of 160 thousand people is looking forward to t ...
26 May 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Stop deaths! An agreement has to be reached as soon as possible", asks Cardinal Salazar Gómez
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogota, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez, speaking to the local press reiterated that war must end and an agreement between the government and the FARC has to be reached as soon a ...
26 May 2015
ASIA/NEPAL - A month ago the first earthquake in Nepal, and now the most current emergency is the arrival of the monsoon rains
Katmandhu (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the earthquake struck Nepal, the most current emergency is the arrival of the monsoon rains expected in a few weeks. Once the rains begin, it will be harder to reach remote are ...
26 May 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian lawyers: "The blasphemy law has to be abolished"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in the neighborhood of Sanda, in Lahore, the scene of anti-Christian violence carried out on Sunday 24 May. After a case of alleged blasphemy (of which a Christian is accused ...
26 May 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - The jihadists retreat from the villages on the river Khabur, leaving destroyed crosses and vandalized churches
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadi militias of the Islamic State (IS) retreated from the villages along the river Khabur, in the northeastern Syrian province of Jazira, which they had occupied on February 23, forcing ...
26 May 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Security situation worsens due to clashes
Maper (Agenzia Fides) - The intensification of the clashes between the government and the opposition is gradually deteriorating the situation in some of the areas of Unity State on the border with the State of the Lakes, ...
26 May 2015
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops denounce: "In eastern Congo three basic training camps for jihadists; but the UN observes without intervening"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A climate of genocide, a hearth of jihadist fundamentalism and a process of Balkanization". These are "the three greatest dangers" denounced by the Bishops of the Province of Bukavu (eastern D ...
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