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17 February 2017
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Gym only for women, founded by a woman
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – A gym only for women is having big success in Afghanistan. The experiment not only represents a commercial opportunity for the owner of the facility, but also an opportunity for girls, in a coun ...
17 February 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - More than 20,000 displaced people in Bambari due to clashes among former Seleka factions
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20,000 residents in Bambari forced to flee, took refuge in the forest because of the fighting between two rival factions of former Seleka rebellion. This is what the authorities of the ...
17 February 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A week of terrorist violence: "We are vulnerable", says a priest
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn this senseless violence against innocent human beings. Before any ethnic, cultural or religious connotation, the victims are human beings.
People in Pakistan are above all sad; they ...
17 February 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Disputes over the lands of St. Macarius monastery still unresolved
Fayyum (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no definitive solution to the dispute between the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of St. Macarius, in the region of Wadi al Rayan, and the Egyptian government regarding the proposed cons ...
16 February 2017
AMERICA/STATI UNITI - Aumenta la solidarietà con i popoli indigeni, denuncia dei lavori di Keystone e Dakota
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Solidarity with the indegenous peoples increases: Franciscans condemn President’s executive order advancing the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan ...
16 February 2017
AMERICA/PERU - Pataz, one of the poorest provinces in the Country
Tayabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The province of Pataz is one of the poorest in Peru, situated in the region of La Libertad. According to an estimate by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, 11 districts out of 13 in Pataz fal ...
16 February 2017
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Erection of the Diocese of Maintirano and appointment of the first Bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, 2017 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Maintirano (Madagascar), with territory taken from the Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, Mahajanga and Morondava, making it a suffra ...
16 February 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Cordoba comments the new law: "Donating an organ does not contradict the Catholic doctrine, but we must be vigilant"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Law n. 1805, passed by Congress last August and recently ratified, establishes organ donation in Colombia as mandatory. "There is nothing wrong in it" said His Exc. Mgr. Juan Vicente Cordoba Vill ...
16 February 2017
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Marian Congress in Cebu: "Faith affects life"
Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The Marian Congress dedicated to the Jubilee of the Mother of Perpetual Help, which opens in Cebu city in the sanctuary run by the Redemptorist Fathers, will not only be dedicated to spiritual them ...
16 February 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Mexico without child labor": only 14 companies out of 4000 respect this trademark
Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - According to information distributed by the Secretariat of Labor and Social Security, in Zacatecas, there are about 49 thousand 300 child workers under 15 years of age. According to statistics ...
16 February 2017
AFRICA - February 16 important date for Christians and democracy in the DRC and Uganda
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - February 16 is an important day for Christians in Africa. On 16 February 1977, Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum was assissinated by the military of dictator Idi Amin, his body placed in mangled car ...
16 February 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Civil War: 200,000 people risk starvation in the State of Amadi
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 200,000 civilians are in urgent need of humanitarian aid in the State of Amadi in South Sudan. This is what State Governor, Joseph Ngere Pachiko told Radio Tamazuj, stating that the reser ...
16 February 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate disowns Christian members of paramilitary groups threatening revenge against Sunnis
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mr. Ryan Salem who yesterday appeared in a television program to assert that Iraqi Christians are also present in Mosul to fight and take revenge on Sunni Muslims, "has nothing to do with the Chri ...
15 February 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in Lahore, the Bishops: immediately an action plan against terrorism
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to implement a national action plan against terrorism, that has to be "the top priority of the government if one wants to eradicate terrorism and extremism from the country": is wh ...
15 February 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The children of the peninsula of La Guajira forced to leave school in order to survive with the sale of fuel
Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - In the Venezuelan peninsula of La Guajira smuggling fuel is an alternative for survival that in particular sees children involved. From 8 in the morning thousands of young children start to wo ...
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