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• 15 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - A new ward for children suffering from dengue and chikungunya Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - A new ward for the assistance of children infected with dengue and chikungunya was recently inaugurated at the Children's Hospital of Tegucigalpa. The aim of this new structure, built by the ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram strikes again, but no longer controls whole territories Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Boko Haram is still able to strike and unfortunately cause victims, but unlike a few months ago, no longer controls towns and villages", says Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of Social Communica ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Caritas launches the program of consolidation of democracy in view of the elections in October Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Burkina Faso has launched the "project of consolidation of democracy and social cohesion (2015-2017)" run by OCADES, Caritas Burkina Faso. The project was presented yesterday, ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "We will continue to be poor without a moral transformation", says the Archbishop of Blantyre Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Why are we poor?" asked His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Luke Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre, in his message for the 51st anniversary of the independence of Malawi, celebrated on July 6. "Our poverty is mu ...
• 14 July 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two children and a woman killed by mistake by the police; Mgr. Baez calls for justice Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, calls for justice for two children and a woman, killed by the police in an operation against drug traffickers, and ...
• 14 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in Mosul transformed into a mosque Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - After the one dedicated to St. Ephrem, also the Chaldean Church of Mosul dedicated to St. Joseph has been transformed into a mosque wanted by the leader of the Islamic State (Daesh), the jihadi en ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal: "Priority to the life of the poor people instead of the interests of pharmaceutical companies" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Give access to treatment for cancer and AIDS to the poorer segments of the population". This is the appeal launched by the Episcopal Commission "Justice and Peace" of South Africa in a sta ...
• 14 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops on the escape of El Chapo, "we are not naive, we must eradicate corruption" Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The second escape of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leader of the 'Cartel de Sinaloa' from the maximum security prison further undermines the little credibility of the population in the federal au ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ho and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 14, 2015 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ho (Ghana), by His Exc. Mgr. Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu, in accordance with canon 401 § 1 ...
• 14 July 2015
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Benedictus Son Hee-Song, Director of the Department for the Archdiocesan Pastoral, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Seoul (Korea), as ...
• 14 July 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Local European Union statement: "regret and concern" on the separation barrier in the Cremisan Valley Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The EU Missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah have released a statement of the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to allow the construction of a section of the Separation Barrier through the Cremi ...
• 13 July 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - The "Blessed of the migrants": relevance of mother Marchetti, co-founder of the Scalabrinians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Assunta Marchetti, co-founder of the Scalabrinian Sisters, was a "woman of the nineteenth century, but we define her a model for the woman of today, who lives in a world in constant motion. ...
• 13 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Corruption spreads when transparency remains only good intentions": the Catholic voice before the scandals Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The LXII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico approved the General Law of transparency during the last period of ordinary sessions, before the end of the legislature, promising strict auste ...
• 13 July 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New attacks of the Muslim Defense International (MDI) in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 16 deaths, of whom 8 terrorists killed by the army, 3 civilians killed by the assailants and 5 soldiers killed in battle. This is the toll of an attack of the jihadists of the Muslim ...
• 13 July 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Once the peace agreement is signed, the real challenge of the government will be how to handle the situation Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - All have hope and confidence that the peace talks will reach a final agreement, but it is necessary to go beyond the signing in Havana, and that the government is present in the most remote regio ...