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18 June 2018
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - March for life: "No" to the legalization of abortion
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Korean Catholics march in defense of life: this is the spirit of the "March for Life", an event held on the streets of Seoul on 16 June to say "no" to the legalization of abortion and reaffirm the ...
18 June 2018
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Patriarch Matthias: the Church will counteract the phenomenon of "child brides"
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Tawahedo Church of Ethiopia will intensify the interventions and training and sensitization courses to warn families about the harmful effects produced by the social praxis of s ...
18 June 2018
AFRICA/UGANDA - "We are taking care of the wounds inflicted by the LRA" says the Archbishop of Gulu
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The north of Uganda now lives in calm. The LRA threat concerns the past, since this guerrilla group is no longer present in Uganda, but has moved to some areas of neighboring Countries such as the ...
16 June 2018
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Beyond all borders": 15,000 young people at the Focolare Genfest, for the first time in Asia
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Around 15,000 young people from all over the world, including Filipinos from 86 Catholic dioceses, are expected to meet for the Genfest youth festival being organized by the Focolare Movement to ...
16 June 2018
ASIA/MYANMAR - Conflict in the Kachin state: new appeal for truce
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In different parts of the Kachin State of Myanmar, a Burmese state with a Christian majority population, the conflict between the Burmese Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has intensifi ...
16 June 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Guanellians close to the disabled, the outcasts of society
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - They are rejected by the family. Excluded from the society. Mentally disabled children are marginalized in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For them there is no network of public facilities. T ...
15 June 2018
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The President responds to the proposal made by the Bishops, National Dialogue convened
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua have informed that on Tuesday, June 12 they received the response of the President of the Republic, Daniel Ortega, regarding their proposal to find a peaceful resolutio ...
15 June 2018
ASIA/INDIA - The Church of Orissa is preparing to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the anti-Christian massacres
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Indian state of Orissa (or Odisha), in the East of India, is preparing to celebrate the solemn commemoration of the victims of the anti-Christian massacres of 2008 ...
15 June 2018
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean patriarch congratulates Muslims for the Eid al Fitr festival and takes part in a dinner for the end of Ramadan
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday evening, Thursday 14 June, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako took part in a dinner held at the Chaldean church of Mar Korkis, in Baghdad, on the occasion of the end of Ramadan, the ...
15 June 2018
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Care and assistance for the ethnic minority Batwa, the forgotten Pygmies
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Batwa, an ethnic group which represents about 2% of population in Burundi, is a community still strongly discriminated against in a country that was torn apart by a civil war until 2005 an ...
15 June 2018
AFRICA/UGANDA - The Bishops: "We are worried about the wave of kidnappings"; most of the victims are women
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "We note with great concern that there has been an increase in kidnappings, organized crime and killings in our country", say the Bishops of Uganda in their final statement of their Plenary Ass ...
14 June 2018
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Caritas Senegal launches a national campaign for migrants and refugees
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - From 19 to 24 June, Caritas Senegal is organising a week of shared activities with migrants and refugees in Dakar, as part of the Global Action Week of Caritas Internationalis.
The Global Action ...
14 June 2018
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in the Nineveh Plain host Muslims for the evening meal that interrupts Ramadan fasting
Bartella (Agenzia Fides) - The initiatives of coexistence and reconciliation in the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plain in which the local Christian and Islamic communities find themselves sharing the iftar, the even ...
14 June 2018
ASIA/INDIA - The Church teaches the values of the Indian Constitution in Catholic schools
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - We need to read, comment and teach the new generations the Preamble of the Indian Constitution in Church-managed schools in India: this is what the Office for Education and Culture under the C ...
14 June 2018
ASIA/MYANMAR - Card. Bo: "The silence of Aung San Suu Kyi speaks of pain, responsibility, struggle for peace"
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Myanmar is a primary commitment, not only for Myanmar, but for the whole world. It could become an example for the rest of the world: a country in which 135 different recognized ethnic ...
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