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• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christians organize the "banquet of unity" for Muslims on the occasion of Ramadan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, according to custom, parishes and Christian families in Egypt organize spontaneously at the end of the day the so-called "banquet of unity", social occasions in particular of ...
• 25 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 20,000 people every week prepare themselves for the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Piaui (Agenzia Fides) - More than twenty thousand people, including children, youth, adults and the elderly, meet every Tuesday in open spaces and at the Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Villa Obrera, in the north of t ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Laudati Sì" a source of inspiration for dialogue and for the care of creation Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudati Sì, is a new source of inspiration and encouragement for the work of interreligious dialogue and for the care of the environment": says a statement sent to ...
• 25 June 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Periodic monitoring of the situation of migrants, joint efforts of government and Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretaries of the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs, respectively Miguel Angel Osorio Chong and Jose Antonio Meade, along with other officials and representatives of state inst ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government's plan for the security of religious minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - To improve the protection of religious minorities: with this objective, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Nisar, asked the provincial government to carry out an internal investigatio ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera and rains aggravate the humanitarian situation, thousands of refugees fleeing the war: the testimony of a missionary Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The authorities have announced that 18 people have died from cholera and about 170 people have been admitted to hospital due to the epidemic, and three diagnostic centers have also been reopened t ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We respect the Constitution, no to Kabila’s third term", says civil society in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Respect the Constitution". This is the main request made by civil society in South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) during national talks promoted at a national and local level by P ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Gospel of Barnabas" is a fake Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The fake "Gospel of Barnabas", also passed off by the international media as a document found, is "a book full of also historical and geographical errors, the work of a forger", and has no value a ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX dies in Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX passed away today, Thursday, June 25, at Jeetawi hospital in Beirut, where he had been taken following a cardiac arrest. He was 75 years old. Boutro ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Jujuy: "We need the State’s strong support against drugs" Jujuy (Agenzia Fides) - The problem of drug addiction and drug trafficking in Argentina does not diminish but increases, children and young people today are the most vulnerable groups: this was denounced by the Bishop of ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - "Solidarity generates new hope after the earthquake", says a Jesuit Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "Nepal is shaken and unstable, but citizens have survived and look to the future with hope, after the tragic earthquake", says, in a note sent to Fides, Fr. Louis Prakash, SJ, Director of prog ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American Religious give their full support and unreserved commitment for Peace in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the CLAR Congress, Confederation of religious men and women of Latin America and the Caribbean, held these days in Bogota (see Fides 06/09/2015), a statement was issued in which the ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - The peace agreement signed in a climate of emotion and conviviality Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The signing ceremony of the peace agreement took place in a very convivial climate" says Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Agenzia Fides, who was prese ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have bee ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to the president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Maryam Kanwer, president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance", who works in the building of peace, conflict resolution and social welfare, is under threat. This is denounced by the "Asian Human Ri ...