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19 January 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Return to smile": medical campaign of reconstructive surgery for children
Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - This year doctors and volunteers of the American NGO Healing The Children will carry out a selection among children between 0 to 17 years of age, who need reconstructive surgery. "Return to sm ...
19 January 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Movimiento de Santuario" has over 800 points of reference for immigrants
Tucson (Agenzia Fides) - Few hours before the new President of the United States takes office, many churches and religious congregations have joined the "Movimiento de sanctuary", over 800 points of reference, to offer p ...
19 January 2017
EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS Director of Morocco: "When there is friendship between Christians and Muslims, there is no fear"
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Simeon Czeslaw Stachera, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Morocco and Vicar General of Tangier, is above all a missionary". This is how the Director of the PMS in Spain, Father An ...
19 January 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - Two Christians have disappeared in Kachin state, while the conflict continues
Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - Two ethnic Kachin Christian leaders have disappeared in Kachin state, Burmese state where fighting between separatist groups and the regular army continues and where the flow of refugees conti ...
19 January 2017
ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo awaits the arrival of Cardinal Zenari. Bishop Khazen: "he will visit hospitals, refugee camps and devastated churches"
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio in Syria, is expected to arrive in Aleppo in the early afternoon today, Thursday, January 19, for a visit full of commitments and meetings that will contin ...
19 January 2017
AFRICA/GAMBIA - President Barrow takes office in the Gambian embassy in Dakar; first step for the Pan-African military intervention?
Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - The elected President of Gambia, Adama Barrow, will be sworn in today, January 19, at the Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, where he took refuge after outgoing President, Yahya Jammeh, decided n ...
19 January 2017
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - New military and police protests, raid against Ucao
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Several areas of the Ivory Coast are in the grip of protests by military, gendarmes, police and customs officers who take to the streets, firing into the air and intimidating civilians. From Abi ...
17 January 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Reappointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Andrew Small OMI
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 4, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the reappointment of Fr. Andrew Small, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immacu ...
16 January 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - The case of the old Copt woman from Karm, beaten and stripped naked by fanatical Islamists, suspended for "lack of evidence"
Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Prosecutors in Egypt's central governorate of Minya have suspended investigations into an assault on a 70-year-old Coptic Christian woman, Suan Thabet, who was stripped naked and paraded in the st ...
16 January 2017
ASIA/THAILAND - Children's Day "playing with army weaponry"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Thailand, since 1955, Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of January. During this day children visit the seat of government, Parliament, they go to natural parks, participate ...
16 January 2017
AMERICA/CANADA - Worldwide, 119,000 children are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome each year
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - A study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada published the first-ever estimates of the proportion of women who drink during pregnancy.
According to data published in The Lan ...
16 January 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dialogue between the government and gangs for peace and genuine reconciliation is still necessary
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "The country needs political consensus, this means dialogue", said yesterday the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, in the usual Sunday press. "The spirit ...
16 January 2017
AFRICA/KENYA - New Bishops' appeal to save lives - medical staff on strike for more than a month
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Kenya, once again appeal to the striking doctors to resume essential medical duties especially regarding patients in danger of life and those who need urgent care. The me ...
16 January 2017
ASIA/INDIA - The Jesuits committed to social harmony
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To overcome ignorance and prejudice and above all to educate young people to promote peace and social harmony, peace which is an urgent need today: this is what the Indian Jesuit theologian M ...
16 January 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - Deputy cites the Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Parliament: Suspended for 3 sessions
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian deputy of the Turkish Parliament Garo Paylan, representative of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP, opposition party that unites pro-Kurdish forces and leftist forces) on January 13 w ...
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