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• 28 July 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - It is necessary to vaccinate children against measles Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The immunization campaign against measles has just concluded in four health areas: Lumbishi, Numbi, Tushunguti and Shanje in the hilly surroundings of the town of Minova, the so called Hauts Pl ...
• 26 July 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Five new Korean Jesuit priests will welcome the Pope Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - There will be five new Korean Jesuit priests in the Catholic community as it prepares to welcome Pope Francis in his next trip to Korea (14-18 August): the Society of Jesus in Korea has in fact ce ...
• 26 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Pope Francis calls the Chaldean Patriarch. Rumors about the destruction of churches in Mosul have been denied Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis phoned the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako to manifest his participation and closeness to the suffering of the Iraqi people, starting from Mosul Christia ...
• 26 July 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - 193 years of independent and Catholic life Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenges faced by our authorities and all Peruvians will overcome only with the mutual recognition among all citizens, far from any form of discrimination; in respect of our healthy traditio ...
• 26 July 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Looking for a lawyer to represent undocumented children" Dallas (Agenzia Fides) - A campaign to recruit volunteers and lawyers ready to commit to help the children stopped at the border with Mexico has started in North Texas. The Catholic Church in North Texas, in the person ...
• 24 July 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishop of Brownsville: "In the face of a humanitarian crisis, we need a humanitarian response" Brownsville (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of children and young Central Americans stopped at the U.S. border with Mexico, in Texas, continues to present itself as a state of authentic humanitarian crisis (see Fides 24/ ...
• 24 July 2014
  AFRICA/BENIN - Children sold for 30 euro as slaves by their parents: a campaign against trafficking Porto Novo (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty and family breakdown are, without a doubt, two of the main causes of child trafficking. To these we must add the lack of education of children and their families, conflicts and polit ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Priorities for new president Joko Widodo: stop intolerance and guarantee religious freedom Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Priority for the new president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, and his new government is to address the issue of the growing religious intolerance in Indonesia, which has become a national concern, a ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan "Morning Star College" Seminary in Calcutta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 30, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Santhanam J.A., of the diocesan clergy of Bauripur, as Rector of the ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan "Khristo Jyoti Mohavidyaloyo" Seminary in Sambalpur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 16, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Francis Pereira, SVD as Rector of the interdiocesan "Khristo Mohavidy ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem rescues thousands of Muslims, who have taken shelter in schools and churches in Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - There are almost 1,300 Palestinians, the vast majority of Muslims, who have taken shelter in the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza in order to escape the bombing of the Israeli army ...
• 24 July 2014
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Over 700 million girls forced into marriage London (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world more than 700 million women were forced to marry when they were still children, of these 250 million (35.7%) before the age of 15. This is what was stated by the United Nations ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Thousands of children excluded from the vaccination campaign against polio which has resurfaced in the Country Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - About 765 000 children under 5 years of age live in areas of Syria where it is very difficult to reach because of the ongoing conflict and therefore were excluded from the recent vaccination camp ...
• 24 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Also displaced Christians and Hindus from North Waziristan: no to discrimination Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are also internally displaced Christians and Hindus from North Waziristan, an area where the Pakistani government has in recent weeks launched an anti-terrorism offensive against Taliban ...
• 24 July 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – There is no Christian in St. Anthony Abate’s hometown Qumans (Agenzia Fides) - There is not a single Christian or church in the Egyptian city of Qumans, formerly known by the name of Coma, in the central province of Beni Suef, where in 251 AD Saint Anthony was born, regarde ...