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• 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 ...
• 22 April 2015
  OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Merieti Riiki, of the Filles de Notre-Dame du Sacré Coeur (FD ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal: heavy fighting between soldiers from three different ethnic groups Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting with the use of heavy weapons between two groups of soldiers of the army of South Sudan with many victims is what is happening today, April 22, in Malakal, the capital of South Sud ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Outbreak of measles in Darfur: cases continue to multiply Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The local Ministry of Health has confirmed a sharp increase in cases of measles in Sudan. Currently we are talking about 1,472 people infected. The dead recorded so far are 25, while other 3000 ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Imams and priests promote the "culture of encounter" preaching together in schools in Minya Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The collective "mission" of a large group of imam linked to al Azhar – the biggest theological center of Sunni Islam - and Coptic priests begins today, who for a few days will visit together the ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Video of the massacres of Ethiopian Christians: the jihadist that exposes the obligations of Christians is a Saudi terrorist Ryad (Agenzia Fides) - The militant of the Islamic State who in the macabre video with the execution of Ethiopian Christians launches threats against "the people of the cross" and recalls the obligations of Christians in ...
• 21 April 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Consecration of the Bishop of Orizaba: active participation of the indigenous community in Náhuatl language Orizaba (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in the history of the Diocese of Orizaba (Mexico), during the rite of episcopal ordination of His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Cervantes Merino, which will take place on April 24, the Xo ...
• 21 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peripheral areas left to themselves due to national conflict: tribal clashes reawaken Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was not possible to celebrate the Easter Triduum in Malakal due to clashes between the Shilluk and Dinka tribes" refer to Agenzia Fides missionary sources from the capital of the South Sudan St ...
• 21 April 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops in assembly: Mission, emigration and social crisis Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The XCV Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) will be held from April 20 to 24. There will be a special day: Friday 24, the Bishops will go on pilgrimage to Avila, on the o ...
• 21 April 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Emergency for violence and attacks against minors Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - Bucaramanga is a city, capital of the department of Santander, in Colombia. From a recent communication of local authorities it seems that there are 45 reported cases of child abuse per day ...