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3 October 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Moronta concerned about the situation of prisons and the conflict in Tachira
Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal, His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, is concerned about the tension that has been going on for more than 20 days following the events tha ...
3 October 2016
ASIA/THAILAND - Zika, first babies born with microcephaly in Southeast Asiatnenen ste meme stnene sjne e
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After the cases of zika in Brazil (that had denounced a tragic surge of malformations in fetuses) and in Africa, America and Europe, the alarm also grows in Southeast Asia. In particular in Thai ...
3 October 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Balaknama: street children publish a newspaper
Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sexual abuse, child labor, street violence sums up life of street children in India. Delhi’s Balaknama newspaper - the "Voice of Children", which is run by the street children has been working ...
3 October 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Travas: "Communion and dialogue in South Punjab, infested by Islamic militants"
Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "The small Catholic community in the south of Punjab province lives communion and promotes dialogue in a society where the influence of Islamic militants and violent groups is felt": says Bishop ...
3 October 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar will organize an international conference on peace with the participation of Eastern Churches
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar will organize in early 2017, in cooperation with the Muslim Council of Elders, an international Conference on peace, coexistence and interreligious dialogue, whi ...
3 October 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Electoral Commission announces the postponement of the presidential and legislative elections to 2018
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential and legislative elections in November 2018. This is what was announced by the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Corneille Naanga, to the participants in the ...
3 October 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "No" wins in the referendum on peace agreements
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Colombians have rejected the peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC in a historic referendum that sought to put an end to 52 years of armed conflict.
According to information ...
3 October 2016
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Restructuring of the Somali intelligence; Turkey announces the opening of its first base in the Country
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 1,500 officers and intelligence agents in Somalia have been dismissed, including the head-center of the capital, Mogadishu. This was decided by General Abdullahi Gafow, according to whom the d ...
3 October 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - The Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches ask for the "Syriac" ethnicity to be recognized and included in the Iraqi Constitution
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The two Primates of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssif III - have signed and sent a letter to the highest r ...
30 September 2016
EUROPE/ITALY - Diocesan Directors of the PMS in Poland: pilgrims to the tomb of Blessed Paolo Manna
Ducenta (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of the centenary of the Pontifical Missionary Union, founded by Blessed Father Paolo Manna (PIME) in 1916, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Polan ...
30 September 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pro abortion protesters deface a mural, the door of the Cathedral and the Bishopric
Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 September some feminist organizations, a union of women and a women's political movement, held a demonstration in the streets in the city of Neuquen calling for the decriminalization of a ...
30 September 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillians open the first novitiate on the island of Flores
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "July 14, 2016 marked a historic moment for the Indonesian Camillian Mission: the official opening of the novitiate in Maumere, island of Flores, with the first two novices". The is what Father ...
30 September 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - CIMI denounces violence against the Indigenous in Minas Gerais, a missionary threatened
Minas Gerais (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) denounces and condemns the attack of 23 September by farmers (fazendeiros) and gunmen against Xakriabá indigenous communities of Vargem Grande, in ...
30 September 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Murderers of the three Christians in Malatya convicted, but no prison for now
Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - Nine years after the killing of three Christians slaughtered in the southeastern Turkish city of Malatya, the Criminal Court sentenced five Turkish, accused of being the perpetrators of the trip ...
30 September 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Inclusion and quality in education policy: the proposals of religious minorities
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in India, in particular Christians and Muslims, invite the federal government not to "saffronize education", by imposing a new education policy with particular focus on cu ...
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