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4 March 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - “Let us fight corruption as Pope Francis asked us to do” says Archbishop Kairo
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A Kenyan archbishop has reminded President Uhuru Kenyatta of what Pope Francis said during his visit to the African country about fighting corruption. “During the meeting with young people at K ...
4 March 2016
AFRICA/SUDAN - Flour is scarce , long lines to buy bread
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The people of Khartoum have to wait in long lines to buy a little bread from the bakeries which often have to close because of the scarcity of flour. A woman in the state of Khartoum told th ...
4 March 2016
AFRICA/TUNISIA - Tunisia concerned about possible military intervention in Libya
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - “Tunisia is deeply concerned about possible intervention on the part of western powers in Libya” F r. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Tunisia, said in a ...
4 March 2016
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Leading environmentalist Berta Cacere assassinated after ten years of threats
La Esperanza (Agenzia Fides) – Leading environmentalist Berta Caceres, well known in Honduras, was murdered at dawn yesterday, Thursday 3 March, at La Esperanza, about 200 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, in the west of t ...
4 March 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - New La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre for street children
Cuautla (Agenzia Fides) – About 150 children who have no school to go to and are forced to spend their days on the streets, have been accepted at the new La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre, organized by Santiago ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent
ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...
3 March 2016
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish-American Day: 970 Spanish fidei donum priests on mission in Latin America.
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Next Sunday, 6 March, "Latin-American Day" with this year’s theme "Prophets of Marcy", is promoted by the Missions Commission of the Spanish Catholic Bishops’ Conference and OCSHA (Organis ...
3 March 2016
AMERICA/CUBA - Zika virus continues to spread, 30 countries in Latin America already affected
Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Hygiene and Epidemiology Department officials, who asked not to be named, confirmed that on February 28 Cuban health authorities spoke of 21 cases of Zika virus on the island of Cuba. The gover ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...
3 March 2016
EUROPE/FRANCE - Number of girls in the world without schooling is double the number of boys
Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 16 million girls in the whole world aged between 6 and 11 will never go to school, twice the number of boys in this situation, if present trends continue. The alarm comes from UNESCO, Uni ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step”
Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...
3 March 2016
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Catholic Bishops' Conference of Angola, Sao Tomé and Principe opens Plenary
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – On-going formation and the extension of Radio Ecclesia network to cover the whole of Angola were among the issues being discussed by the Plenary Assembly of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of A ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Malolos says steelworks project must be stopped
Malolos City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop José F. Oliveros of the diocese of Malolos calls for the immediate cancellation of a steelworks project which would irreversibly ruin the life of the local people and the natural e ...
3 March 2016
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - After 30 years former army members found guilty of crimes against indigenous women
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – At last they have been convicted of crimes against humanity including sexual and domestic violence, sexual slavery , involving women of the village of Maya Q'eqchi', the murder Doming ...
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