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• 24 April 2015
  EUROPA - One million children die of pneumococcal disease, but vaccines are too expensive Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year about one million children die of pneumococcal disease. Currently in the poorest Countries, the price to vaccinate a child is now 68 times more expensive than it was in 2001, with many p ...
• 24 April 2015
  AFRICA - Only one African child out of 5 suffering from malaria receives efficient treatment Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, April 25, World Malaria Day will be celebrated. Unfortunately, the phenomenon is still widespread and from the latest reports from the World Health Organization, it appears that only ...
• 24 April 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Maronite Patriarch: they avoid naming the Armenian genocide for fear of legal consequences Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - "After one hundred years, the international community is looking for a definition for the Armenian Genocide and is afraid to call it genocide because they fear the legal consequences". This is h ...
• 24 April 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops: "We plead to the human traffickers who are tricking the youth to leave their country through illegal means to stop their acts" Addis Ababa (Fides) - "We the Ethiopian Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia condemn in unambiguous terms this barbaric terrorist act and call up on all international communities and Governments to provide protection to migrants ...
• 24 April 2015
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Forced removal of a cross: the government orders an investigation Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Malaysia has ordered an investigation after a group of Muslim protesters forced a small Protestant church in the neighborhood of Taman Medan, the capital Kuala Lumpur, to ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/MACAU - A new musical piece dedicated to Fr. Matteo Ricci Macao (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, April 26, the "Missa in honorem Matthaei Ricci", will be performed in the church of St. Joseph's Seminary in Macao, where in the last two centuries many missionaries have studied. His M ...
• 22 April 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Episcopal Council for Peace analyzes the situation of the talks Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the members of the Episcopal Council for Peace (CEP), to analyze the prospects of the peace process with the guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, was held yesterday, April 21, in Bogota ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The state of human rights in the country worsens Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The human rights situation in Pakistan is strongly deteriorating: is what the latest Report of the "Human Rights Commission of Pakistan" (HRCP) says, one of the largest NGOs in Pakistani society, ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawians fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa: "We were chased like dogs" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We were chased like dogs", said the first vanguards of the 3,200 Malawians that the government is repatriating from South Africa, where violent xenophobic clashes are being carreid out. This w ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic schools are not "against Hindu culture" Goa (Fides) - "We are not here to promote any culture or to promote a religion" but "in the name of secularism guaranteed by the Constitution": this is what, in a note sent to Fides, the Conference of Religious of Goa sa ...
• 22 April 2015
  OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Merieti Riiki, of the Filles de Notre-Dame du Sacré Coeur (FD ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal: heavy fighting between soldiers from three different ethnic groups Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting with the use of heavy weapons between two groups of soldiers of the army of South Sudan with many victims is what is happening today, April 22, in Malakal, the capital of South Sud ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Outbreak of measles in Darfur: cases continue to multiply Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The local Ministry of Health has confirmed a sharp increase in cases of measles in Sudan. Currently we are talking about 1,472 people infected. The dead recorded so far are 25, while other 3000 ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Imams and priests promote the "culture of encounter" preaching together in schools in Minya Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The collective "mission" of a large group of imam linked to al Azhar – the biggest theological center of Sunni Islam - and Coptic priests begins today, who for a few days will visit together the ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Video of the massacres of Ethiopian Christians: the jihadist that exposes the obligations of Christians is a Saudi terrorist Ryad (Agenzia Fides) - The militant of the Islamic State who in the macabre video with the execution of Ethiopian Christians launches threats against "the people of the cross" and recalls the obligations of Christians in ...