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• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian government dedicates a garden to the Martyrs of the Assyrian Genocide in the center of Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian government has offcially titled as "Garden of the Syrian martyrs" Qishleh garden, in the center of Damascus, to coincide with the centenary of the massacres of Christian Syrians, Ass ...
• 17 April 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Floods favor the spread of the chikungunya virus Portoviejo (Agenzia Fides) - Ecuador declares chikungunya ‘state of emergency’, an infectious disease transmitted by the insect vector of dengue hemorrhagic fever. According to the latest data released by the local M ...
• 17 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops condemn the outburst of xenophobic violence: "we are a nation of peace who conquered apartheid" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has observed with sadness the outburst of xenophobic violence in Durban which the Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier ha ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities towards the Jubilee of Mercy Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholic communities have welcomed the publication of the "Misericordiae vultus" Bull that proclaims the special Jubilee of Mercy, and are already intensely living the preparation ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christian Cemeteries vandalized in Mosul and in Galilee Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the Islamic State (IS), who since last June have been controlling Mosul, have ravaged the oldest Christian cemetery of the city, publishing pictures of the destruction of the tom ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shots fired against a Catholic school in Lahore, three injured Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, gunmen opened fire on a school in Lahore, the "St Francis High School", a Catholic high school located in the district of Bahar, in the Anarkali area. This was reported by sources i ...
• 17 April 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Bolivia is not out of the global crisis"; Bishops fear repercussions on the poor and excluded La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB), His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Aparicio, Archbishop of Cochabamba, has warned about the possible effects of the global economic crisis in the coun ...
• 16 April 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Moving Dadaab Refugee Camp back to Somalia must go hand in hand with allocating more resources to Northern Kenya for it to succeed", says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Now that there is a government in Somalia, it is good if the camp is closed and the people are allowed to return back home", said His Exc. Mgr. Paul Darmanin, Bishop of Garissa, commenting on t ...
• 16 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Patriarch will participate in the commemorations of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, to be held in Yerevan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, will travel to Yerevan on April 20 to take part in the most significant events planned to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genoc ...
• 16 April 2015
  AMERICA - Almost 4 million children in Latin America do not have access to primary school Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50% of the Latin American Countries and the Caribbean have managed to have access to primary education, although unfortunately there are still nearly 4 million children who d ...
• 16 April 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Eleven soldiers killed, the Church asks for a definitive cease-fire Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Military Bishop of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Fabio Suescun Mutis, has strongly condemned the events in the municipality of Buenos Aires, in the north of Cauca (Colombia), where 11 soldiers were ...
• 16 April 2015
  OCEANIA/VANUATU - Church's response plan helps residents in aftermath of cyclone Pam Port Vila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Vanuatu, supported by Caritas Oceania agencies, including Caritas Australia and Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, have been distributing tarpaulins and other emergency aid a ...
• 16 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The lawyers: "Justice after the death of Nauman Masih, killed because a Christian" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We are shocked. The death of Nauman Masih, the 14-year-old Christian burnt alive by a group of Muslims, is surprising. Two days ago the doctors said that despite the severe burns, the boy would ...
• 16 April 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY – Even the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople will commemorate the victims of the Genocide Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Even the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, based in Istanbul, will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the systematic massacres against the Armenian people which began on April 24 ...
• 16 April 2015
  AMERICA - Bishops Emeritus continue to give their contribution Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - After the first meeting of the Bishops Emeritus of Latin America, held in Bogota in March (see Fides 04/03/2015), Father José Gregorio Melo Sánchez, Secretary of the Ecclesial Communion and Dia ...