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• 28 May 2015
  VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "How to support the universal mission today and tomorrow" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), begins next Monday, June 1, at the Retreat House of the Salesians in Rome. The National Directors of the PMS from all ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "The Church's mission continues despite terrorism", says the Director of the PMS Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The challenge we face as Christians in Pakistan is that of terrorist attacks and to be a community that lives in constant fear. But despite the difficulties, we continue to proclaim and give ...
• 28 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Child nutrition, drugs and poverty: meeting of Bishops and authorities of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Wednesday, May 27, the governor of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli had a meeting with the Bishops of the various dioceses of the province of Buenos Aires. The meeting, which is becom ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Radical Buddhist groups: "The Rohingya are not Burmese" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Rohingya are not Burmese and have no right to remain in Myanmar: proclaiming this slogan, several hundred Buddhist protesters, led by monks, marched through the streets of the main city of My ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Church withdraws from the election process: "we cannot make ourselves guarantors of elections full of gaps" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church will not participate in the legislative elections in Burundi: says a statement of the Episcopal Conference of Burundi. "After taking into account the way in which the elect ...
• 28 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The churches of Piedras Negras become centers of aid to people affected by the tornado Cohauila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Piedras Negras, which belongs to the city of Acuña, Coahuila (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Alonso Gerardo Garza Trevino, after the disaster caused by the tornado that de ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA - A third of Africans end up in poverty because of precarious health care services Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Health care, as well as being a right of every man is also the cornerstone of sustainable development and global security. The NGO for development Anesvad recently launched the alarm about the fa ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the Marists of Aleppo to the Pope: if you want Christians to remain, the war must be stopped Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Since the start of the Syrian conflict appeals not leave the country and humanitarian aid provided by the institutions related to the church "have not prevented half of the Christians of Aleppo t ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The President denies the motion for dismissal, the Bishops denounce "the culture of corruption" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Malagasy President Hery Rajaonarimampianina said he will not resign and challenged the dismissal of the motion passed by Parliament (see Fides 27/05/2015). In a televised message to the nat ...
• 28 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Coptic boys released, falsely accused of an "insulting" video towards Islam Minya (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Minya upheld the appeal filed by the defense of the four teenagers who were in detention for more than 40 days on charges of insulting Islam. The incident happened in a school in the vi ...
• 28 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Children do not go to school in order to beg in the street Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of school-age boys and girls live and work in the street, earning a few cents a day to help their poor families. Among the initiatives to help these children, ...
• 27 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Changes to the blasphemy law: the government's bill, Christians approve Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan is moving to stop the abuse of the blasphemy law: the executive has in fact developed a bill that will be presented and discussed in Parliament for approval. "It is a ...
• 27 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Tornado among the strongest recorded in the country affects Ciudad Acuña: 14 deaths and massive damage Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña on May 25 has killed 13 people, 150 have been injured, 750 houses damaged and 4,000 without electricity. The phenomenon occurred around 6 am in the western pa ...
• 27 May 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Protest demonstration of Christian schools against discriminatory policies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools of Israel staged an unprecedented demonstration to denounce the discriminatory policies. Nearly 700 among teachers, parents and children, and religious gathered at 11 am on W ...
• 27 May 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "We are going back to chaos," says a missionary after the vote to remove the President Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is discouraged because there is a feeling of returning to the chaos that characterized the political life of the island for years", says to Fides Fr. Luca Trengia, Director ...