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• 16 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan philosophical Seminary in Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 March 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Godwin Michael Viegas, SVD (Society of the Divine Word) as Recto ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Expansion of a water system to provide water to about 22,000 people Cyeza (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Cyeza there is water! We are talking about a village that is located in the central part of the Country and now sees the realization, with the contribution of the non-profit organization M ...
• 16 July 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nearly two million Central American children are undernourished Managua (Agenzia Fides) - In Central America there are more than 2 million children under five years of age who suffer from anemia and more than 1 million and 900,000 who suffer from malnutrition. This is what was highli ...
• 16 July 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Priest murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate mass Montería (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish priest Luis Alfonso León Pereira, for 48 years at the service of the Colombian Church, was brutally murdered in the sacristy as he was about to celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy. The ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Doubts of the Burundian opposition regarding the mediation of Museveni Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The Burundian opposition does not have confidence in the mediator chosen by the East African Community, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, to try to unravel the political crisis in our ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "If Boko Haram succeed in cutting us off from the other part of Nigeria, Maiduguri is doomed" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The rate of the Boko Haram attacks in the past few weeks have become worrisome and dangerous. This remains the only route linking Maiduguri city with the other parts of the world. One can only im ...
• 16 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Melkite priest in the Syrian province of al-Suwayda missing. A kidnapping is feared Shahba (Agenzia Fides) - Since last Sunday no one is able to get in contact with Greek-Melkite priest Antoine Boutros and with Al-Said Abdun, who was driving him from the city of Shahba to Sama Hinadat, where father Anto ...
• 15 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign of the diocese of San Pedro Sula: "An honest man is not corrupt" San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "In this context of outrage over corruption there is the request to denounce it, so that everything is out in the open: the causes, those responsible and the measures that should be taken ...
• 15 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAN - National Director of PMS: "We give thanks to Christ for the nuclear deal" Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "This agreement is certainly a positive step for our Country, as well as for the rest of the world. I think many of us, these days, were waiting for this result with trepidation". This is what Ch ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros withdraws the complaint against the militants of the "38 Copts" association Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic activist Nader El Serafy, co-founder of the "Copts 38" association revealed that Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II withdrew the complaint lodged by the Coptic Church against militan ...
• 15 July 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nearly 30 percent of Argentines live in a situation of poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - 28.7 percent of Argentines live in poverty and 2 million people are below the level of poverty: these are the findings of the last report of the Argentine Social Debt Observatory, ODSA, of ...
• 15 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new ward for children suffering from dengue and chikungunya Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - A new ward for the assistance of children infected with dengue and chikungunya was recently inaugurated at the Children's Hospital of Tegucigalpa. The aim of this new structure, built by the ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram strikes again, but no longer controls whole territories Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Boko Haram is still able to strike and unfortunately cause victims, but unlike a few months ago, no longer controls towns and villages", says Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of Social Communica ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Caritas launches the program of consolidation of democracy in view of the elections in October Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Burkina Faso has launched the "project of consolidation of democracy and social cohesion (2015-2017)" run by OCADES, Caritas Burkina Faso. The project was presented yesterday, ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "We will continue to be poor without a moral transformation", says the Archbishop of Blantyre Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Why are we poor?" asked His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Luke Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre, in his message for the 51st anniversary of the independence of Malawi, celebrated on July 6. "Our poverty is mu ...