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• 20 May 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops: "We would be happy for the canonization of Mother Teresa" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a universal symbol of mercy and compassion. The Indian Bishops would be extremely happy and grateful to the Holy Father and hope wholeheartedly that the canonizat ...
• 20 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Four Copts kidnapped on the way to the Marian shrine of Jabal al-Tair Minya (Agenzia Fides) – Four young Coptic Christians in the province of Minya, Upper Egypt, were kidnapped along the country road they were walking to reach the ancient church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the villag ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 90% of HIV-positive Dominicans live in extreme poverty Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - 90% of the approximately 80,000 people with HIV in the Dominican Republic live in extreme poverty. AIDS patients die of hunger, they are unemployed, marginalized from society, deprived of ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Half a million families with serious addictions to alcohol and drugs Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Half a million Argentine families have severe addictions and the abuse of alcohol has become the main problem and plague: this was stressed in the first report of the "Barometro del Narcotr ...
• 20 May 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Food insecurity in the north of the Country Maroua (Agenzia Fides) - It becomes increasingly difficult to find food in northern Cameroon especially due to the insecurity caused by Boko Haram which has seriously damaged agriculture and cross-border trade. Aid agenc ...
• 20 May 2015
  ASIA/YEMEN – Saudi-led airstrikes bomb one of the three Catholic churches in the Yemeni territory Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Aden, in Yemen, was bombed on May 11 in a Saudi-led airstrike against Houthi rebel positions and suffered serious damage but was not fully destroyed. This ...
• 20 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Mgr. Moreno Barron’s appeal: Go and vote, do not sell your vote Tlaxcala (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the elections to be held on 7 June His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Moreno Barron, Bishop of Tlaxcala, has accused politicians of being responsible for what happens in Tlaxcala, namely ...
• 20 May 2015
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Malaysia and Indonesia welcome the Rohingya: "Compassion wins" says a Jesuit Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a matter of compassion. It is a question of saving lives, men, women and children. The step carried out by the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia, which have agreed to accept the ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado" in El Valle occupied with violence for a few hours Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Around 2 am on Monday, May 18, a group of about 30 women and 18 children violently entered Casa-Hogar "Padre Machado", in the village of El Valle (Caracas, Venezuela ), occupying the premises an ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the failed coup, demonstrations resume against the third presidential term Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a scary situation, because we fear more violence", say to Fides local sources from Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, after the failed military coup led by General Godefroid Niyombare ...
• 19 May 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Ready to welcome the Rohingya migrants": State and Church agree Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippines is ready to welcome about three thousand ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh, adrift in the Bay of Bengal, rejected by all other Southeast Asian countries. Both t ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Radio Mercy" launched, the web-radio of the Catholic Senegalese Church Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The radio station on the web launched by the Catholic Church of Senegal called "Radio Mercy" proposes moments of prayer, sermons, testimonies, but also religious music and reflection on everything ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Six million Mexican children do not go to school because of discrimination Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Currently at a national level, out of 40 million children, six million children between 3 to 7 years of age do not go to school. According to a recent study released by the National Council ...
• 19 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Arab League welcomes the agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil Elaraby welcomed "the Vatican recognition of the Palestinian state", national entity whose words will be explicitly mentioned in the global Agreement ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR – Preparation for the beatification of Mgr. Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "El Salvador prepares the most important days of its history" is one of the headlines that circulates in the capital San Salvador in recent days. "We have waited 35 years", says a woman who ...