ASIA/MYANMAR - Armed forces have released 67 child soldiers
Naipyidó (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's armed forces released 67 child soldiers under pact with UN. This is its first discharge this year as part of a process to end forced recruitment of underage fighters. This is the fir ...
10 July 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - First African Assembly of the Scalabrinians
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the missionary Sisters communities of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinians, present in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Mozambique and Angola, have gathered ...
10 July 2017
AFRICA/CAMERUN - Bishops confirm their position: Bishop Bala did not drown
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops Conference of Cameroon, His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, during a meeting with journalists convened on July 8 at the Episcopal Conference, reiterat ...
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appeal of Filipino Bishops: "No more war in Marawi"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "No more war in Marawi! We ask the return to normality and peace as soon as possible in Marawi and in the area. We wonder if the extension of the martial law will lead to this. We believe that th ...
AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish
Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...