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21 May 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - The police free four kidnapped Copts
Minya (Agenzia Fides) - An operation carried out by the police led to the release of the four young Copts who had been kidnapped on the night of Sunday 17 and Monday, May 18 as they were returning, in a car, from a visit ...
21 May 2015
AFRICA/NIGER - Civil society denounces: serious human rights violations in the east of the Country
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Security forces in Niger are committing human rights violations in the region of Diffa, in the east of the Country, where in February a state of emergency was declared because of the raids carrie ...
21 May 2015
ASIA/NEPAL - The work of solidarity of the Catholic Church to earthquake victims continues
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "The work of solidarity of the Catholic Church continues, especially in the more remote districts. In recent days we had a coordination meeting with all the priests, nuns, religious involved i ...
21 May 2015
AFRICA - Rubber and leather shoes that "stretch" for African children
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are hundreds of millions of children who cannot afford to have a pair of shoes. A young American has invented a pair of rubber and leather sandals, made with a system of clamps ...
20 May 2015
AFRICA/KENYA – First beatification in Kenya: the Italian missionary Sr. Irene, "mother all mercy and love"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - On 23rd May, all eyes will be set on Dedan Kimathi University grounds in Nyeri, near the Consolata Mathari Chapel where Italian missionary Sr. Irene Stefani, of the Consolata Missionaries (MC) i ...
20 May 2015
ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops: "We would be happy for the canonization of Mother Teresa"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a universal symbol of mercy and compassion. The Indian Bishops would be extremely happy and grateful to the Holy Father and hope wholeheartedly that the canonizat ...
20 May 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - Four Copts kidnapped on the way to the Marian shrine of Jabal al-Tair
Minya (Agenzia Fides) – Four young Coptic Christians in the province of Minya, Upper Egypt, were kidnapped along the country road they were walking to reach the ancient church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the villag ...
20 May 2015
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 90% of HIV-positive Dominicans live in extreme poverty
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - 90% of the approximately 80,000 people with HIV in the Dominican Republic live in extreme poverty. AIDS patients die of hunger, they are unemployed, marginalized from society, deprived of ...
20 May 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Half a million families with serious addictions to alcohol and drugs
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Half a million Argentine families have severe addictions and the abuse of alcohol has become the main problem and plague: this was stressed in the first report of the "Barometro del Narcotr ...
20 May 2015
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Food insecurity in the north of the Country
Maroua (Agenzia Fides) - It becomes increasingly difficult to find food in northern Cameroon especially due to the insecurity caused by Boko Haram which has seriously damaged agriculture and cross-border trade. Aid agenc ...
20 May 2015
ASIA/YEMEN – Saudi-led airstrikes bomb one of the three Catholic churches in the Yemeni territory
Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Aden, in Yemen, was bombed on May 11 in a Saudi-led airstrike against Houthi rebel positions and suffered serious damage but was not fully destroyed. This ...
20 May 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO – Mgr. Moreno Barron’s appeal: Go and vote, do not sell your vote
Tlaxcala (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the elections to be held on 7 June His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Moreno Barron, Bishop of Tlaxcala, has accused politicians of being responsible for what happens in Tlaxcala, namely ...
20 May 2015
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Malaysia and Indonesia welcome the Rohingya: "Compassion wins" says a Jesuit
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a matter of compassion. It is a question of saving lives, men, women and children. The step carried out by the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia, which have agreed to accept the ...
19 May 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado" in El Valle occupied with violence for a few hours
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Around 2 am on Monday, May 18, a group of about 30 women and 18 children violently entered Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado", in the village of El Valle (Caracas, Venezuela ), occupying the premises an ...
19 May 2015
AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the failed coup, demonstrations resume against the third presidential term
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a scary situation, because we fear more violence", say to Fides local sources from Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, after the failed military coup led by General Godefroid Niyombare ...
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