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• 22 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal from Homs: "Respect the humanitarian truce" Homs (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal to respect the humanitarian truce in Homs reaches Fides Agency by representatives of the Christian community, civic leaders and important Sunni Muslims of the city. Families trapped ...
• 22 June 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - The rights of refugees and asylum seekers should be respected Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The rights of refugees and asylum seekers should be respected. If they have the right to flee to save their lives, they should be granted the right to enter the Country of arrival. In addition, ot ...
• 21 June 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "To take charge of reviewing ways and decisions that have excluded and condemned the poor to misery": Bishops of Brazil for Rio +20 Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB), expects that the Rio +20 meeting confirms the commitment of the construction of an alternative development model, integral and based ...
• 21 June 2012
  VATICAN - Pope’s appeal: "to immediately end the killing in Nigeria" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the general audience on Wednesday, June 20, Holy Father Benedict XVI launched the following appeal "to an immediate end to the killing of innocents " in Nigeria: "I am following with ...
• 21 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children and adolescents at risk: new scenarios require new responses Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The forum "Children and adolescents at risk in the current socio-political realities of Ecuador" opened yesterday, June 20, in Quito. Sponsored by the Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador U ...
• 21 June 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO - Biso na Biso: the voice of the forest promotes relations between Bantu and Pygmies Pokola (Agenzia Fides) - A community radio station that broadcasts from Pokola, 800 kilometers north of the Congolese capital Brazzaville, is committed to promoting and facilitating the understanding between the majority ...
• 21 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Truce in Homs, but civilians cannot leave the city yet Homs (Agenzia Fides) – There is truce between the Syrian army and rebels: after long and difficult negotiations, a cease-fire agreement was reached to allow the release of civilians trapped in Homs. However, say Fides ...
• 21 June 2012
  VATICAN - "New evangelization, that is, new proclamation of the message of Jesus, which brings joy and frees us.": the instrumentum laboris of the Synod Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Handing on the Faith" is the title of the third chapter of laboris the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme: "The new evangelization for the transmission of the Chris ...
• 21 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic politician: "Solid democracy in Pakistan, Christians part of the country" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy is solid in Pakistan, I see no danger of a coup," says to Fides Akram Gill, Catholic politician, until now Minister of State for National Harmony, commenting on the difficult politi ...
• 21 June 2012
  AFRICA/COMOROS - Flooding, damage to crops, diseases due to heavy rains Moroni (Agenzia Fides) - Following the heavy rainfall recorded in the wet season from November to May, about 65,000 inhabitants of the Comoro islands, corresponding to 8% of the population, have been severely affected by ...
• 20 June 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To evangelize among violence, the atheist ideology and consumerist culture: witness of the Apostolic Vicar of San Vicente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Every community member should become a missionary, evangelist, the laity are having to become pastoral operators, only this will give us strength and courage to continue this mission,": says His E ...
• 20 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Premier disqualified, there is a risk of instability: the Church supports democracy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gilani from his office yesterday, due to the effect of the sentence imposed on him for contempt on April 26. The Supreme C ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/TOGO - Protect children with disabilities from cultural traditions that marginalize them Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - Fear, shame and deep-rooted cultural traditions, continue to marginalize disabled children in Togo, as in much of the continent, who are often ridiculed, locked up, hidden and neglected, cutting t ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram has declared war on Christians, but does not represent the entire Nigerian Islam," says Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is fair to say that Boko Haram is against Christians and the Christian religion, but let's be careful not to confuse this sect with the entire Muslim population of Nigeria, with which we try t ...
• 20 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The revolution is not and should not be an "Islamic Jihad" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The Syrian revolution is a struggle for the ideals of democracy, freedom, dignity, human rights. It is not and must not become an 'Islamic jihad', which is why Christians have nothing to fear ...