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• 3 July 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The UN decreases aid to Syrian refugees. The Director of Caritas Jordan: the great powers have created the catastrophe, and now they wash their hands Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The UN funds earmarked for Syrian refugees in Jordan are about to be cut, and soon 450 thousand of them will be starving, with devastating consequences for the stability of the Hashemite Kingdom. ...
• 3 July 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola nightmare is back: 3 new cases Nedowein (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia, declared "Ebola-free" on May 9 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has plunged back into the nightmare of a new epidemic. Three new cases were registered in the same village, Nedow ...
• 3 July 2015
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - South Africa concerned about the "explosive" situation in Lesotho Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - Concern in South Africa about the situation described as "explosive" in Lesotho, after the killing, last week, of former Chief of Staff, General Maaparankoe Mahao, who according to family members ...
• 2 July 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Food sovereignty and other initiatives resume power thanks to CELAM Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming visit of the Pope to Cuba and his words for a serious commitment regarding the peripheries of the world, CELAM has proposed again some examples of positive feedback that o ...
• 2 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Widespread violence does not spare even three elderly nuns Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Tehuantepec, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Armando Campos Contreras, along with all the clergy expressed an energetic condemnation of the acts of violence committed against pri ...
• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Stop violence against women Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - A silent march and a prayer vigil to express solidarity with the Salesian Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate (SMMI) and to ask for justice: with this spirit more than 2,000 people gathered nea ...
• 2 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A recreational project for indigenous children of different ethnicities Merida (Agenzia Fides) - The talent, creativity and imagination of 450 indigenous Mexican children have found their expression in some murals on display in the magnificent facilities of the Gran Mundo Maya Museum of Meri ...
• 2 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - If these structural issues are not adequately addressed, we shall soon have another Marikana", says "Justice and Peace" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "If these structural issues are not adequately addressed, we shall soon have another Marikana, if we continue to pursue a brand of mining economy that puts profit before people", warned His ...
• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Terra Sancta Museum" ceremony of laying the foundation stone Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – The ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the creation of the "Terra Sancta Museum", a profound desire of the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, took place at The Franciscan ...
• 2 July 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Floods destroy homes and buildings, there are two thousand displaced Douala (Agenzia Fides) - A week of heavy floods, caused by heavy rains have hit the economic capital of Cameroon, Douala, and has caused the death and destruction of homes and buildings in the city, as well as two thousa ...
• 2 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church after the jihadist attacks in Sinai: we are on the side of the military fighting "evil forces" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After a series of attacks carried out yesterday by jihadist groups against 18 army posts in north Sinai, the Coptic Orthodox Church expresses sympathy and full support to the Egyptian military. I ...
• 2 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - More and more weapons circulate even among the opposition, a very worrying situation Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of victims in yesterday’s clashes is higher than reported by official sources, that speak of 6 dead", say local sources to Agenzia Fides from Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, where ...
• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The police save a Christian accused of blasphemy from being lynched Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New case of blasphemy charges against a Christian in Pakistan. As Fides learns, in the town of Farooqabad, in Punjab, the young Awais Qamar, son of Saraj Masih, was denounced when neighbors saw h ...
• 1 July 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - Procession at sea on Easter Island for St. Peter, praying for the Pope's visit Valparaiso (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, is deeply felt in different parts of Latin America, where fishing is a major activity for the economic sustenance of families. Also on ...
• 1 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - An international conference in Erbil to found the "League of the Chaldeans" Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference of the founding of the "League of the Chaldeans", an organization strongly backed by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I as a tool to address the political and social p ...