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5 October 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir crisis: the Church launches a major national interfaith prayer
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We announce a major national prayer to be held on Sunday, October 16, 2016: all the Bishops, all the priests, religious and laity, will animate Masses, liturgies, vigils and prayers for the g ...
5 October 2016
AMERICA/PERU - Seven out of 10 children victims of abuse
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 74% of boys and girls and 81% of adolescents in Peru suffer abuse. This is what emerged in the IV National Meeting for Early Childhood, being held in Lima. On this occasion the Ministry of women an ...
5 October 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Four Copts (including a child) kidnapped in the province of Assiut
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Four Coptic Christians, one of whom is also a 9-year-old boy, were kidnapped on October 3 in the city of Manfalut, in the province of Assiut, 350 km south of Cairo. The kidnappers initially deman ...
5 October 2016
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Prayer and fasting for the present and the future of Nicaragua
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - From tomorrow, October 6, at the invitation of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, every parish in the country will organize a "Day of Prayer and Fasting for the present and the future of Nic ...
5 October 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Need to separate presidential, legislative and local elections to overcome the crisis
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, confirmed on October 4 the postponement of the presidential elections which were to be held before 19 December, the expiry date ...
5 October 2016
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Fighting at km5 after the killing of a military commander" report Fides sources
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A Central African army chief, Marcel Mombeka, was killed yesterday morning near km5, the Muslim area of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. During the ambush the military’s 14-year-ol ...
4 October 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - After the referendum, the Bishops encourage to promote a "culture of encounter"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Following the results of the referendum on the peace Agreements held on October 2, with the victory of the "no" and with a very low turnout, (see Fides 10/03/2016) the Colombian episcopate have i ...
4 October 2016
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Hundreds of foreign "slave" fishermen on vessels in Hawaii
Honolulu (Agenzia Fides) - A recent survey published by Associated Press found that hundreds of foreigners, undocumented and from Asia and the Pacific, have been confined to vessels for years without basic labor protecti ...
4 October 2016
ASIA/INDIA - A Christian politician killed in Tamil Nadu
Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - A Pentecostal Christian, engaged in politics, was murdered near a church in the south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu (southern India). As Fides learns, Dhanasekharan was 34 years old and attended a Pe ...
4 October 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscans: concrete steps to be taken to designate a "Safe Zone" in Aleppo under the control of UN peacekeepers
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The international Community must take concrete steps "to designate Aleppo a Safe Zone", to be placed under the direct control "of UN Peacekeeping", using lessons and solutions acquired in previou ...
4 October 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese crisis threatens to set fire to the whole area of the Great Lakes
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the political instability experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is also instability in peripheral areas, such as in Central Kasai (see Fides 26/09/2016) and especially ...
4 October 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Kurdish Peshmerga bombard the jihadist militias that occupy a Christian town in the Nineveh Plain
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 3, the Kurdish Peshmerga army attacked positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) in the city of Bartala, also known as Bartella, located 20 kilometers east of Mosul, in the Ninev ...
4 October 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - More than two thousand young witnesses of the "joy of the gospel in a plural society"
Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The second Indonesian Youth Day, a national event organized by the Episcopal Conference, on the model of World Youth Day, began today October 4, in the diocese of Manado, eastern Indonesia (North ...
4 October 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Social peace and the security of many people are being put at risk" denounces Msg. Arizmendi
San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Last week, the Electoral Court of the State of Chiapas decreed the legitimacy of the role regarding two women elected mayors of Chenalhó and Oxchuc. Since the elections a yea ...
4 October 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: "There is no need to tell lies: people suffer. There is no peace without justice"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to tell lies. They do not help us. This country is sinking. We need to get up and stand strong and say God help us to carve a new way, rather than denying the suffering of the peo ...
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