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• 10 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Haiti to Brazil in the hands of human traffickers, with the hope of a better future San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - Located in a central district of San Paolo (Brazil), the "Mision de Paz" managed by the Italian Scalabrini missionary Fr. Paolo Parisi, is one of the landmarks for the Haitian community of nea ...
• 10 June 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: a year after the fall of Mosul, only national reconciliation can save the country Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - On the first anniversary of what is called "the tragedy of Mosul" when the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) conquered the second city of Iraq, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis ...
• 10 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Lebanese pray for the unity of the Country in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - From 12 to 16 June, a series of liturgical celebrations and moments of Marian devotion will be held in various locations in Lebanon on the occasion of the second anniversary of the consecration o ...
• 10 June 2015
  ASIA - Climate change and ecology at the attention of Asian churches Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of Asia focus their attention on environmental issues and climate change. As Fides learns, in view of the publication of Pope Francis’ Encyclical dedicated to the issues of protect ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", says a UN African Special Representative Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", said the UN Special Representative for Central Africa, the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily, during a meeting of Heads of the UN missions, wh ...
• 10 June 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The inhabitants of port of Buenaventura subjected to "collective torture" Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The capture of Carlos Quintero, one of the most feared bosses of the criminal gang "La Empresa" which controls the port of Buenaventura (Colombia), and which is said to be the instigator of ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Fleeing insecurity and epidemics, Burundians pour into Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 7, ooo Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, had arrived in Uganda through Rwanda and Tanzania. The cholera outbreak and worsening sanitation conditions in some of the refug ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New appeal of Christian leaders to stop the "senseless war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop immediately this senseless war that is bringing immense suffering to the South Sudanese people". This is the urgent appeal of the new South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC). The appeal, whic ...
• 9 June 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Human trafficking, new areopagus of consecrated life in Latin America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - During the Congress of Consecrated Life organized by CLAR (Latin American Conference of Religious), which will be held in Bogota (Colombia), from June 18 to 21, a workshop "Human trafficking: a n ...
• 9 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The five Patriarchs of Antioch in Damascus: no to the disintegration of Syria Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The only path to follow to try to get out of the Syrian crisis is a "political solution", accompanied by the commitment of regional and global powers to counter the jihadist of the Islamic Stat ...
• 9 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Children bought for $ 500 among the ruins of the earthquake Gorkham (Agenzia Fides) - While the Nepalese population are trying to rebuild their lives devastated by the earthquake, traffickers take advantage of poverty to increase illegal trade. This is what four young Californian ...
• 9 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the Bishops also civil society denounces the massacres committed by jihadists in Beni, "the world must intervene" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Who has killed 430 people in such a horrendous way, from October to today, in the territory of Beni (North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo)? They are jihadist terrorists, say the lea ...
• 9 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 22 Muslims arrested for the attack on the Christian area: massacre avoided thanks to Islamic leaders Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - 22 Muslims arrested and more than 700 under investigation for the mass attack against the Christian area of Sandha, in Lahore, which occurred on May 24 following accusations of alleged blasphemy ...
• 9 June 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A course on "Project Management" for the religious women in Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty nuns of various religious communities in Jerusalem took part in a course on the management of social projects and charity, organized at the house of the Comboni Missionaries of the Holy ...
• 8 June 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan Seminary in the Archdiocese of Daegu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 February 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Chrysologum Ri Sang-Gug, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Daeg ...