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• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - The peace agreement signed in a climate of emotion and conviviality Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The signing ceremony of the peace agreement took place in a very convivial climate" says Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Agenzia Fides, who was prese ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have bee ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to the president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Maryam Kanwer, president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance", who works in the building of peace, conflict resolution and social welfare, is under threat. This is denounced by the "Asian Human Ri ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist attacks in Hassaké. Archbishop Hindo: "they are a sign of weakness and desperation" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday evening, June 23 the city of Hassaké in the northeast of Syria was hit by a series of attacks carried out by militant jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), causing deaths and injurie ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite the latest attacks, we hope that Boko Haram will be soon defeated" says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have concrete hope that Boko Haram will be defeated soon. We are praying that Boko Haram will soon become a thing that belongs to the past", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Do ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of CIMI: suicide and infant mortality are decimating the indigenous population Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There was a serious increase of violence and violations committed against indigenous peoples in Brazil in 2014, in particular we are talking about cases of murder, suicide, people who died due ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A new United Nations Office for Human Rights focused on North Korea, opens in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focusing on the human rights situation in North Korea: is the aim of the new United Nations Office for Human Rights, which opened in Seoul. In accordance with one of the recommendations of the g ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appeal of the UNHCR to the Dominican government: the consequences of expulsion could be devastating New York (Agenzia Fides) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the government of the Dominican Republic not to deport tens of thousands of people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of t ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Mass for solidarity and to ask to stop the deportation of Haitians from Santo Domingo New York (Agenzia Fides) - The battle to avoid the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who according to recent local legislation cannot obtain Dominican citizenship, has moved ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The exhortation of Mgr. Pante to 600,000 refugees welcomed in Kenya: "Do not lose hope" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 15 minutes a person becomes displaced in the world", recalled His Exc. Mgr. Virgilio Pante, Bishop of Maralal and Vice President of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Kenya E ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops: "The representation of minorities in Parliament has to be ensured" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Every authentic and healthy democracy must ensure the representation of linguistic, ethnic and religious minorities in Parliament: with this belief the Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka officially e ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 June 2015 the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, by His Exc. Mgr. Francisco González Hernández, ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London London (Agenzia Fides) – It is believed that a diplomatic row will break out between the UK and Spain, on the one hand, and Rwanda on the other, due to the arrest of General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake in London, head of t ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal from Torit: the few NGOs that have remained in South Sudan must not leave over 4 million displaced alone Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary that the international community intervenes forcefully to stop the fratricidal war between the supporters of President Salava Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar", says, in ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Tensions between Druze and Israeli government for medical aid provided to the anti-Assad militiamen Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between the Israeli army and the Druze residents of the Golan Heights continue after a group of them attacked an Israeli ambulance on Monday, June 22 which was carrying two militants ...