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30 January 2017
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - South Africa reassures the authorities in Harare: "we will protect your expatriates against xenophobic threats"
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Zimbabwean government has received assurances from the South African authorities on measures taken to cope with the recent xenophobic threats against the Zimbabwean communities living in the ...
30 January 2017
ASIA/LEBANON - A "day for Lebanon" will be celebrated at the Shrine of Fatima
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In June, a "day for Lebanon" will be celebrated at the Marian Shrine of Fatima, Portugal. The program will begin with the recitation of the Holy Rosary in the evening of June 24, and will end the ...
28 January 2017
VATICAN - The Church's solidarity with leprosy sufferers: 612 centers around the world
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has a long tradition of assistance towards leprosy patients, especially in mission territories, which is expressed not only with medical care and spiritual assistance, but also o ...
28 January 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - The village of Pygmies in Ngouma to ensure essential health services and education for children and women
Bagandou (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of a health center, a village and schools are some of the initiatives of the non-profit Friends for Central Africa, regarding the Aka Pygmies, which started in 2000 and still i ...
28 January 2017
AFRICA/UGANDA - The first patient suffering from multi-resistant tuberculosis has been cured
Lorengachora (Agenzia Fides) - The Health Center of Lorengachora, Uganda, has celebrated the first patient who had been diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and has been declared clinically cured after two ye ...
28 January 2017
ASIA/SYRIA - Trump: stop immigrants from entering the USA to 7 Muslim-majority countries. But for him the reception of "persecuted Christians" is a "a priority"
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries to the USA for three months and acknowledged as "a priority" the imp ...
28 January 2017
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Jubilee USA Network coalition: Puerto Rico needs significant debt relief
Washington DC (Agenzia Fides) - Puerto Rico's "control" board meets January 28 as the island's financial crisis deepens. In a January 18 letter, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico noted that the ...
27 January 2017
EUROPE/ITALY - In the world a person is affected by leprosy every two minutes
Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of volunteers will meet on Sunday, January 29, in hundreds of Italian squares, for the 64th World Day of Leprosy (GML) and witness the commitment of the Italian Association Amici di Ra ...
27 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "There is already a bloodbath in Venezuela" denounces Mgr. Santana
Comillas (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not see why our people have to suffer so much", said the Archbishop of Maracaibo, His Exc. Mgr. Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I. with tears in his eyes, at a conference organized in ...
27 January 2017
AFRICA/MALAWI - Rampant corruption aggravates the damage caused by drought
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Drought is bringing the people in Malawi to their knees. This is what Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary says to Agenzia Fides, "the water level in Lake Malawi has dropped a lot. The ...
27 January 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops of Mexico: "pain and rejection for the construction of this wall"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our sorrow and rejection with regards to the construction of this wall, and respectfully invite all to reflect on the ways through which we can ensure security, development, work ...
27 January 2017
ASIA/BANGLADESH - The commitment of Caritas Bangladesh with regards to coping with climate change
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Bangladesh Caritas is working to address the issues of climate change: says to Agenzia Fides Anjalina Diana Podder, Program officer for Social welfare and community development sector of Caritas B ...
27 January 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch visits the Nineveh Plain; the first funds to rebuild houses and churches have been allocated
Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, January 26, a delegation of the Chaldean Church led by Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako I visited the area of the Nineveh Plain recently reconquered by the government army, also welcome ...
27 January 2017
AFRICA/GAMBIA - "The crisis is over, but we need help", says to Fides the Bishop of Banjul
Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - "On his arrival in Banjul, yesterday, January 26, new President Adama Barrow was greeted by a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands of people", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Robert Patrick Elliso ...
26 January 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians united in prayer and deed, in the name of "clemency"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Week for the unity of Christians in Pakistan, today concludes in Lahore, with an ecumenical prayer vigil, which saw the four largest Christian denominations pray, meet, reflect and share expe ...
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