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21 June 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest victim of an attempted murder
Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was attacked in the state of Assam (in Northeast India) by an unidentified person and was hospitalized with serious injuries caused by machetes. Fr. Sushil John Soren, parish ...
21 June 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops launch a civic education campaign ahead of elections
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) has launched the campaign for voter and civic education. The campaign aims to encourage citizens to be more involved in affairs of the countr ...
21 June 2016
EUROPE/SPAIN - Back to school: project for the schooling of 100 Syrian children in Lebanese public schools
San Sebastian (Agenzia Fides) - "Vuelta a la escuela" is a new project promoted by the NGO Solidaridad Internacional to support the schooling of 100 Syrian children in the Lebanese school system. Ten refugee teachers wil ...
21 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic minister: "Stop to honor killing in Pakistan"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Honor killing is the worst form of example of brutality and bestiality in Pakistani society. The killing of a child by the mother or father is the desecration of the sacred bond of motherhood an ...
21 June 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: No to sectarian partition plans in the Middle East
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to stop the dismemberment sectarian plans with which some international circles think they can resolve conflicts, redrawing the boundaries of the Middle Eastern Countries, beginn ...
21 June 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency
Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans, and there are chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenou ...
21 June 2016
ASIA/JORDAN - Reconciliation meeting in Zarqa in the church damaged during a fight
Zarqa (Agenzia Fides) - A reconciliation meeting among the inhabitants of the neighborhood and the effective work done by many of them to repair the damage, put an end to the story of the Greek Catholic church in Zarqa, ...
21 June 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - One among thousands of Haitian immigrants carried the Olympic torch
Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Five years after leaving Haiti and beginning a new life in northern Brazil, Abdias Dolce carried the Olympic Torch through the streets of Manaus on Sunday, June 19, thus representing, as he said, ...
21 June 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Nsukka: "Let us forgive our enemies, but the government has to protect us"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Never in the history of our community have we witnessed anything similar. And we pray and hope that never again shall we witness any tragedy close to this one in magnitude", said His Exc. Mgr. Go ...
20 June 2016
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Livingstone, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 June 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Livingstone (Zambia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Raymond Mpezele, in accordance with ...
20 June 2016
AMERICA/PERU - A project to strengthen the fight against child labor
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor in the agricultural sector continues to be one of the emergencies in the Country. Thanks to an initiative promoted by the local Labor Ministry, the Project "Semilla" h ...
20 June 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Three people killed in a suicide attack, Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II escapes the bombing
Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed by a suicide attack yesterday during a religious meeting organized in Qamishli in northern Syria, to commemorate the "Assyrian genocideof 1915, by the Ottoman army. Acc ...
20 June 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The first concern of the Church is peace", recalls the Apostolic Nuncio
Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Aldo Giordano, stressed that it is the duty of the Church to seek dialogue in the country, a dialogue for peace and to meet the needs of the popu ...
20 June 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops: "It is time to work for the reconstruction of the country" t
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Now is not the time for recriminations. Now is the time for the government and all citizens to work together for the future. Do not indulge in destructive criticism; instead roll up your sleeves a ...
20 June 2016
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The worst forms of clandestine child labor registered in Latin America
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala, with 850 thousand 937 child laborers and 43% of children who do not attend school, has the highest rate of child labor in Latin America, according to information sent to Fides. ...
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