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• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-The Diocese of Bangassou welcomes the victims of the "tyrant of child soldiers" Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - For about 5 years, the Bishop of Bangassou, His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre, welcomes boys and girls who succeed in escaping from the criminal Joseph Kony, "the tyrant of child soldiers", in ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya is free, but it is a freedom that must be conquered," said Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm again. When we left this morning at 7 am after Mass, we did not notice anything special " said His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to F ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-The Auxiliary of Lahore: "Thanks to firm faith, the status of Christians has improved " Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "To remain steadfast in faith": is the appeal to the faithful by His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Francis Shaw (OFM), auxiliary Bishop and apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese of Lahore, on the occa ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/THAILAND-Alarming phenomenon of child trafficking: forced to sell flowers and to beg Pak Kred (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangkok, about 1 thousand children are given for "rent" for very little money from the poorest families to traffickers who force them to beg and sell flowers on the streets. According to the ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ashton should speak of religious minorities, religious freedom, blasphemy": appeal of the NGOs Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Abuses against religious minorities, human rights, religious freedom, the blasphemy law: these are the hot spots and issues of "serious concern" that Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative f ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI-The divisions of the North could favour a Pan-African military intervention Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - " Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, is engaged in raising the morale of the army to prepare it for a possible intervention in the north. Last weekend he traveled to the Tibou region to meet mi ...
• 4 June 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Maryknoll Missionary awarded the "Humanitarian Award of Hong Kong" for commitment in favour of prisoners, the elderly and poor Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Thomas A. Peyton, 81, a missionary of the Society for Foreign Missions, Maryknoll, was honored with the Red Cross of the Hong Kong Special Administration "for his contributions to the car ...
• 4 June 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The truce on behalf of armed gangs, an example to stop violence in the Central American area San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) –It depends on the Church in every country to try to bring forward the mediation between gangs, which together with drug traffickers and other criminal groups have exacerbated the violence ...
• 4 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christians and Muslims re-launch the values of dialogue, tolerance, unity Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - While the country is ravaged by sectarian violence and the growth of religious extremism, Christian and Muslim leaders re-launch the values of dialogue, peace and tolerance. "Meeting, dialogue, p ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Two statements of the responsible of Shabaab suggest a crisis in the fundamentalist movement Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Somali Islamist group Shabaab seems to be weakened by recent military and diplomatic developments and are internally divided. On the military side, with the conquest of Afgoyee in ...
• 4 June 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Week of Migrants: intensify missionary activity in the field of human mobility Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 to 7 June "National Week of the Migrant and his family", coordinated by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferen ...
• 4 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "The desolation of Homs and the war of information ": the words of a greek-catholic Archimandrite Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Syria could be saved if everyone told the truth. After a year of conflict, the reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media": says a test ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops are devastated for the "Black Sunday" in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled and shocked by the two tragedies that hit Nigeria yesterday, the airplane crash in Lagos that killed 153 people, and the attack on a Christian church in Bauchi," says to Fides His ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO -Malnutrition and violence the innocent children and the population of Goma are having to face Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 4, is the "International Day of Innocent Children Victims of aggression" sponsored by the United Nations. The young ones and the entire population of North Kivu suffer the climate of te ...
• 2 June 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - It is important to bring war criminals to justice, but we also need to improve the population's economic and social advancement Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experience in Sierra Leone, sent his contribution to Fides Agency on the situation in Sierra Leone in the light of former Liberian Presid ...