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25 May 2016
ASIA/ISRAEL - The Israeli government does not keep its promises, Christian schools at risk
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the end of a difficult school year, which started with a 27-day strike, 47 Christian schools operating in Israel are facing a financial emergency from the potentially devasta ...
25 May 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Emergency in the Country for the exploitation of children in tobacco plantations
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The exploitation of child labor in tobacco plantations continues to be one of the most serious emergencies in Indonesia. The complaint comes from the recently published report by Human Rights Wa ...
25 May 2016
AFRICA/SUDAN - Release of Coptic monk kidnapped in Darfur
Nyala (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox monk Gabriel, kidnapped on Thursday, April 14 in the city of Nyala, Sudan's state capital of South Darfur (see Fides 16/04/2016) has been released. His confreres of the monaster ...
25 May 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian lawyer’s family members almost risked being kidnapped
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill’s parents and sister almost risked being kidnapped in Lahore last May 22 by a stranger. The lawyer, who in the past had received threats for his legal commi ...
25 May 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: "Areas without water, the only hospital closed, please help us Mr. President!"
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Ettore Epalza Quintero, P.S.S., Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura, during the Eucharist celebrated on May 21 took advantage of the presence of President Santos and the del ...
24 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Guapi: "It is necessary to develop a strong missionary conscience"
Guapi (Agenzia Fides) - "After so many years of suffering due to the evils of violence and corruption, now is the right time to eradicate all evil and forgive one another, establishing a culture of peace and giving rise ...
24 May 2016
AMERICA/CHILE - "It seems that La Araucania does not exist for the government" said Mgr. Vargas before INDH
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The session of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), one of the institutions that aims to collect relevant testimony of La Araucania, regarding intercultural conflicts in this area, took ...
24 May 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Church and civil society against new executions
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal and a campaign to stop new executions scheduled by the Indonesian government and announced as imminent: is what Catholic organizations and groups of the Indonesian civil society ...
24 May 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Children drop out of school to look for food
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The economic, food and political emergency within the Latin American Country continues. In past months, in order to survive and find something to eat, one Venezuelan child out of four was forced ...
24 May 2016
AFRICA/MALAWI - "Killings of persons with albinism on the rise" denounces Justice and Peace
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Albinos are being abducted and killed for ritual purposes. Graves have been exhumed and some people have been caught by the police with bones and other albino body parts. We as a Justice and P ...
24 May 2016
ASIA/ISRAEL - Rabbis launch campaign against religious hatred fueled by "Price Tag" gangs
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israel-based Rabbis for Human Rights have announced that a new anti-'price tag' attack inter-party campaign will be launched in the Knesset this week. Tag Meir (the Light Tag Forum) is a coali ...
24 May 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Kidnapping during the Mass, the Bishop denounces "things are getting worse and worse"
Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Before the wave of violence that continues to hit Veracruz, the Bishop of the diocese of Cordoba, His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Patiño Leal, could not help but declare that "things are getting worse an ...
24 May 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Michoacan is among the five States with the highest rate of child exploitation
Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - The state of Michoacan is among the five States of Mexico where there is the highest number of child exploitation. According to data collected by the Human Rights Commission, the violence suffer ...
24 May 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Today the funeral of Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova of the Congregation of the Sisters Servant of the Holy Spirit and Medical Director of St Bakhita Health Centre will be buried today Tuesday, May 24 in Nairobi, Kenya ...
24 May 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Coptic Patriarch: the meeting between the Pope and al Tayyib is a 'new beginning'
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The return of the friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar, sealed by the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib, "will give new vig ...
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