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28 September 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Economic and social crisis: minors, adolescents and older people in the streets rummaging for food among the waste
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The long economic and social crisis that Venezuela is experiencing and the great difficulty in finding groceries are having a worrying impact on children and families living in more vulnerable s ...
28 September 2017
AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops alarm: "There is a risk of economic collapse and open conflict if political forces do not talk"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Majority and opposition must listen to IEBC’s (Independent Electoral Commission) invitation to dialogue, and chart the way forward with the aim of holding free, fair and credible Presidential ...
28 September 2017
ASIA/JAPAN - "Is the Gospel needed in Japan?"
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "A question remains carved in our minds and in our hearts. A question that Cardinal Fernando Filoni provocatively left us during his pastoral visit: Is the Gospel needed in Japan? Where and how to ...
28 September 2017
VATICAN - Appointments at Propaganda Fide
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples announced the following appointments:
The Holy Father has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio in Gre ...
28 September 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church announces a conference on homosexuality. Patriarch Tawadros: marriage can only be heterosexual
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Coptic Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II reiterates the unavailability of the Coptic Church to legitimize in any form, marriage among same-sex, while Coptic environments announce a forthcomi ...
27 September 2017
AMERICA/CHILE - Mapuche issue: clashes and arrests outside the Cathedral of Concepcion
Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people were arrested after a demonstration outside the Cathedral of Concepcion in southern Chile. During the demonstrations, several citizens who support 4 Mapuche activists who h ...
27 September 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Governor Nawfal al Akoub: more than 1,400 Christian families have already returned to the Nineveh Plain
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1400 Christian families have already returned to their homes and villages scattered in the Nineveh Plain, which they abandoned in the summer of 2014, due to the advance of the jihadist m ...
27 September 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A woman converts from Islam to Christianity: now she and her family risk their lives
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Pakistani woman from Punjab who has chosen to convert from Islam to Christianity has been threatened with death and forced to flee from her home, to take refuge in a secret place and is hiding ...
27 September 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Promotion of health care in rural villages, not "proselytism"
Gumla (Agenzia Fides) – The Daughters of Sant'Anna, Catholic Sisters present in the Indian state of Jharkhand, are at the forefront of health care assistance for those people who do not have it, especially in rural are ...
27 September 2017
AFRICA/CONGO RD - "The Church is under attack" denounces the President of the Episcopal Conference recalling the abducted priests
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Priests are not engaged in politics. If there have been appeals on behalf of some pastoral agents, it is in the framework of civil commitment, respect for values such as justice, peace and rec ...
27 September 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Church: Public institutions must help correct false religious concepts of reproduction
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - State institutions must help counteract and correct concepts of reproduction that claim to be religious-based, and are also followed by the people. This is the wish expressed in the public speech ...
26 September 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi nominated for Sakharov Prize 2017: the blasphemy law in the spotlight
Lahore (Agenzia FIdes) - Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy and in jail since 2009, has been nominated for European Union’s high-status award edition 2017 of the prestigious "Sakharov Prize ...
26 September 2017
AFRICA/TOGO - Sokodè under siege: "active non-violence" to contribute to peace
Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "We are going through difficult times, yesterday our town of Sokodé was besieged by the army; each of us has to contribute to bringing new air into the Country", says to Fides Father Silvano Ga ...
26 September 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Arauca appeals to ELN: "to make the peace process credible"
Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to launch this appeal to everyone, we must make the peace process credible, we must make people feel that all this is true, that the path that has been taken is true, that we are acting s ...
26 September 2017
AFRICA/GHANA - President of Parliament at the Synod on youth: "Seek Christian values and do not be seduced by secularism"
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "In our Country today, there is a growing emphasis on prosperity, especially among the youth. Society basically says: the richer you are, the better off you are. That is pretty much true if you li ...
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