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• 15 September 2015
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Nearly half of all children live in the poorest households Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - 49.2% of Uruguayan children live in a situation of complete poverty. This probelm affects almost half the country's children between 0 and 11 years of age. This was reported by the Continue A ...
• 15 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "In Mexico there is no real administration of justice" says the Archdiocese of Mexico Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "International Shame" is the title of the editorial of "Desde la Fe" magazine, the main body of information of the Archdiocese of the Mexican capital, which denounces the situation of the ad ...
• 15 September 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Preparation for World Mission Sunday 2015 begins Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil called a press conference on September 17, to present World Mission Campaign 2015. The campaign aims to awaken the Christian commitment to the m ...
• 15 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni on his visit: the enthusiasm of the Church in Bangladesh, the vivacity of the Church in India Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "It was really comforting to see the small Church in Bangladesh with such enthusiasm that I would define overwhelming": this is what the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Pe ...
• 15 September 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - One death due to malnutrition every 10 hours, 2 out of 10 children do not have adequate food Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest report released by the Ministry of Health of Argentina, one person dies every 10 hours in the country for problems due to malnutrition. Following the recent death fro ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians to the President of India: "Justice for the victims of the massacres in Orissa" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To do justice for Christian refugees in Orissa, displaced from the district of Khandamal, after the anti-Christian massacres of 2008: is what Rashtrapathi Bhavan, President of India says to ...
• 14 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni concludes his visit to Bangladesh where he meets families and seminarians Tejgaon (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday afternoon, September 12, continuing his pastoral visit to Bangladesh, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrated evening Mass ...
• 14 September 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The jihadists hide in the forests of Virunga protected by apparently autonomous local groups Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists of the Muslim Defense International (MDI), who have settled in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu province (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), take advantage of "satellites" ...
• 14 September 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops: malnutrition and poverty in the country, a "terrible reality" Oberá (Agenzia Fides) – Oscar Sanchez, a 14-year ethnic Qom weighed 11 pounds and died from the consequences of malnutrition in the hospital of Chaco. The "Clarin" newspaper published in evidence the words of three Bi ...
• 14 September 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Early Marriages: still half a million young newlyweds between 15 to 17 years of age Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - About 90,000 children between 10 and 14 years of age were duly married in Brazil in 2010, while another half a million got married between 15 and 17. This is what emerged from a study just rele ...
• 14 September 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Families fleeing and still clashes in Waspam, request of a Truth Commission Puerto Cabezas (Agenzia Fides) - Violence continues in the area of Waspam (Nicaragua), near the border with Honduras: On Friday evening, September 11, there was a new armed confrontation between indigenous and settlers t ...
• 14 September 2015
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO Economic insecurity in particular affects the child population San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - In Puerto Rico children and youth are being brought up in an environment where economic insecurity has reached alarming levels. Parents of 6 children out of 10 do not have a permanent job and 5 ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The request for compensation for the burning of the church in Tabgha has been rejected Tabgha (Agenzia Fides) - The administrative offices of the tax authority in Israel has rejected in recent days the claim for compensation presented by the Catholic Church for the damage of the arsonist attack which last ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Nineveh Plain, Christians in Alqosh in procession for the feast of the Holy Cross Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nineveh Plain, still largely subject to the control of the self-proclaimed jihadist Islamic Caliphate, about a thousand Christians moved in procession among fields and barren hills to reac ...
• 14 September 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA – Turning point in the Libyan negotiations? "We hope this is the right moment" hopes Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope this is the right moment and that the Libyans are seriously able to reach an agreement", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, a ...