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24 April 2015
AMERICA/CUBA - Secular Franciscans in Cuba: more and more involved in parishes
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Secular Franciscan Order in Cuba counts 318 perpetually professed (men and women, single and married, lay people, deacons, priests and a Bishop) who are committed to living the Gospel accordi ...
24 April 2015
AMERICA/CUBA - The Pope's visit will support the Cuban Church in its attention to the cause of peace and the common good
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church in Cuba has received the news of the Pope's visit in September with great joy, in the new era of rapprochement with the United States, a process in which the Vatican acted as ...
24 April 2015
EUROPE/SPAIN - Migrants: disappointment for the CIE Regulation, approved a year ago and still unrealized
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, April 22, the Jesuit Service for Migrants (SJM) presented the "CIE Report 2015" (CIE: Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros), which are the subject of controversy due to the lack ...
24 April 2015
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Islamic and Christian religious leaders: "Necessity to review the Bangasamoro Basic Law"
Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - An additional reflection is necessary. In a recent statement, sent to Agenzia Fides, the Inter Faith Council of Leaders, IFCL of the city of Zamboanga, on the island of Mindanao, highlights "t ...
24 April 2015
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - President of the Episcopal Conference: "Namibia is a stable Country, but the gap between rich and poor increases"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "After 25 years since its independence, Namibia is a politically stable Country and is growing economically. One of the biggest problems we have to face, however, is the distribution of the wealth ...
24 April 2015
EUROPA - One million children die of pneumococcal disease, but vaccines are too expensive
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year about one million children die of pneumococcal disease. Currently in the poorest Countries, the price to vaccinate a child is now 68 times more expensive than it was in 2001, with many p ...
24 April 2015
AFRICA - Only one African child out of 5 suffering from malaria receives efficient treatment
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, April 25, World Malaria Day will be celebrated. Unfortunately, the phenomenon is still widespread and from the latest reports from the World Health Organization, it appears that only ...
24 April 2015
EUROPE/ARMENIA - Maronite Patriarch: they avoid naming the Armenian genocide for fear of legal consequences
Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - "After one hundred years, the international community is looking for a definition for the Armenian Genocide and is afraid to call it genocide because they fear the legal consequences". This is h ...
24 April 2015
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops: "We plead to the human traffickers who are tricking the youth to leave their country through illegal means to stop their acts"
Addis Ababa (Fides) - "We the Ethiopian Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia condemn in unambiguous terms this barbaric terrorist act and call up on all international communities and Governments to provide protection to migrants ...
24 April 2015
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Forced removal of a cross: the government orders an investigation
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Malaysia has ordered an investigation after a group of Muslim protesters forced a small Protestant church in the neighborhood of Taman Medan, the capital Kuala Lumpur, to ...
22 April 2015
ASIA/MACAU - A new musical piece dedicated to Fr. Matteo Ricci
Macao (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, April 26, the "Missa in honorem Matthaei Ricci", will be performed in the church of St. Joseph's Seminary in Macao, where in the last two centuries many missionaries have studied. His M ...
22 April 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Episcopal Council for Peace analyzes the situation of the talks
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the members of the Episcopal Council for Peace (CEP), to analyze the prospects of the peace process with the guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, was held yesterday, April 21, in Bogota ...
22 April 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The state of human rights in the country worsens
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The human rights situation in Pakistan is strongly deteriorating: is what the latest Report of the "Human Rights Commission of Pakistan" (HRCP) says, one of the largest NGOs in Pakistani society, ...
22 April 2015
AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawians fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa: "We were chased like dogs"
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We were chased like dogs", said the first vanguards of the 3,200 Malawians that the government is repatriating from South Africa, where violent xenophobic clashes are being carreid out. This w ...
22 April 2015
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic schools are not "against Hindu culture"
Goa (Fides) - "We are not here to promote any culture or to promote a religion" but "in the name of secularism guaranteed by the Constitution": this is what, in a note sent to Fides, the Conference of Religious of Goa sa ...
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