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• 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 ...
• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - The main problems of childhood in Chile: Sexual exploitation, trafficking, drugs, alcohol Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - 47.2% of sexually exploited children in Chile do not go to school. The consumption of drugs and alcohol are other risk factors that aggravate the situation. The alarm was launched by t ...
• 19 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "A warning to Pakistan", reaction to the murder for blasphemy in Afghanistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The episode of the Afghan woman brutally lynched for blasphemy on March 19, 2015 by an angry mob of Muslims in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, is "a warning and a lesson to Pakistan", says to Fide ...
• 19 May 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian politicians confront each other over "Aoun’s proposal" in order to exit the crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), political party led by former General Michel Aoun, met Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai and some leaders of other political Christian on M ...
• 19 May 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Do not allow habit and indifference to take place in the face of the ongoing persecution of Christians worldwide Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first genocide of the twentieth century" according to the expression used by Pope Francis which took place a century ago, in Anatolia, was recalled this morning by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Pr ...
• 18 May 2015
  VATICAN - Archbishop Romero will be the patron of Caritas Internationalis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero (1917 -1980), who will be beatified on May 23 in San Salvador, murdered for standing with the poor in El Salvador, was adopted as a ...
• 18 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - First agreement between former political prisoners and government, Mgr. Goic President of the Commission Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - A hunger strike carried out by 117 former political prisoners lasted a little over a month, divided in groups in different locations around the country, who among other things, call for the inc ...