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• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist attacks in Hassaké. Archbishop Hindo: "they are a sign of weakness and desperation" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday evening, June 23 the city of Hassaké in the northeast of Syria was hit by a series of attacks carried out by militant jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), causing deaths and injurie ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite the latest attacks, we hope that Boko Haram will be soon defeated" says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have concrete hope that Boko Haram will be defeated soon. We are praying that Boko Haram will soon become a thing that belongs to the past", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Do ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of CIMI: suicide and infant mortality are decimating the indigenous population Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There was a serious increase of violence and violations committed against indigenous peoples in Brazil in 2014, in particular we are talking about cases of murder, suicide, people who died due ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A new United Nations Office for Human Rights focused on North Korea, opens in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focusing on the human rights situation in North Korea: is the aim of the new United Nations Office for Human Rights, which opened in Seoul. In accordance with one of the recommendations of the g ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appeal of the UNHCR to the Dominican government: the consequences of expulsion could be devastating New York (Agenzia Fides) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the government of the Dominican Republic not to deport tens of thousands of people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of t ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A Mass for solidarity and to ask to stop the deportation of Haitians from Santo Domingo New York (Agenzia Fides) - The battle to avoid the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, who according to recent local legislation cannot obtain Dominican citizenship, has moved ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The exhortation of Mgr. Pante to 600,000 refugees welcomed in Kenya: "Do not lose hope" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 15 minutes a person becomes displaced in the world", recalled His Exc. Mgr. Virgilio Pante, Bishop of Maralal and Vice President of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Kenya E ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops: "The representation of minorities in Parliament has to be ensured" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Every authentic and healthy democracy must ensure the representation of linguistic, ethnic and religious minorities in Parliament: with this belief the Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka officially e ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 June 2015 the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, by His Exc. Mgr. Francisco González Hernández, ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London London (Agenzia Fides) – It is believed that a diplomatic row will break out between the UK and Spain, on the one hand, and Rwanda on the other, due to the arrest of General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake in London, head of t ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal from Torit: the few NGOs that have remained in South Sudan must not leave over 4 million displaced alone Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary that the international community intervenes forcefully to stop the fratricidal war between the supporters of President Salava Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar", says, in ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Tensions between Druze and Israeli government for medical aid provided to the anti-Assad militiamen Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between the Israeli army and the Druze residents of the Golan Heights continue after a group of them attacked an Israeli ambulance on Monday, June 22 which was carrying two militants ...
• 22 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros receives a delegation of Chinese People Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese delegation led by Wang Zuo'an, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs of the Republic of China (SARA), was received on 18 June by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros I ...
• 22 June 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years after the attack against the elderly, the case has not yet been solved Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years ago members of the Sandinista Youth attacked a group of young people who were accompanying the elderly who were protesting outside the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security to ask ...
• 22 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped on June 8 has been released, no ransom was paid Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Don Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict in Ido-Ekiti (in southwestern Nigeria), kidnapped on 8 June (see Fides 11/06/2015) has been released. This was confirmed to the local press by Hi ...