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• 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 ...
• 5 June 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Coadjutor Bishop of Xuan Loc Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 June 2015 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Dinh Duc Dao, Titular Bishop of Gadiaufala and Auxiliary of the same diocese as Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Xuan Loc (Vi ...
• 5 June 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appeal to the authorities in favor of protesters on hunger strike Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) expressed concern about the state of health of the former mayor of Tachira, Daniel Ceballos, who has been on a h ...
• 5 June 2015
  AFRICA - More than one million children prisoners worldwide with adult criminals Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – Many children are locked up in cells with criminal adults and are given only a cup of black tea without sugar and a plate of rice. These young boys and girls are in prison and, in addition to ...
• 5 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - International ecumenical initiative launched to accompany the 2016 elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An International Ecumenical initiative to accompany Churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2016 presidential elections and in the following post-election period: is the result ...
• 5 June 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Episcopal Commission for Migrants: "Take action to help the persecuted Rohingya" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "We must take urgent action to help refugees and the persecuted Rohingya fleeing Myanmar". This is the appeal launched by the Commission for Migrants within the Episcopal Conference of Australia. ...
• 5 June 2015
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to the PMS: "missionary activity is still the greatest challenge for the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father received in audience the participants of the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Societies, who were accompanied by the Prefect of the Congrega ...