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• 13 April 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN – Elections contested by the opposition begin, while tension increases with South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The 7,100 seats in the polls for the presidential and parliamentary elections in Sudan open today, 13 April. The vote, which will run for three days, was boycotted by the main opposition partie ...
• 13 April 2015
  AFRICA/GABON - Heavy clashes in Libreville after the death of a prominent opposition figure Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - Unrest in Libreville, capital of Gabon, after the announcement of the death of André Mba Obame, one of the leading opponents in the Country. The death occurred in Yaounde, Cameroon. He was a ...
• 13 April 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremist leader: "Sterilise Christians and Muslims in India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The population of Muslims and Christians is growing day by day. To rein in this, Centre will have to impose emergency, and Muslims and Christians will have to be forced to undergo sterilisati ...
• 10 April 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New appeal to the President to finally solve the problems of immigrant families Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of detaining immigrant families fleeing violence in Central America will be a "stain" in the legacy of President Barack Obama and in the image of the country, said leaders religi ...
• 10 April 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - From the disaster in Sewol, a seed of peace and resurrection Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The disaster of the Sewol ferry can become a seed of peace and resurrection: with this spirit the Korean Church is experiencing a time of prayer, a year after the tragedy on 16 April 2014, when th ...
• 10 April 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM – Children of the war return to Vietnam in search of relatives Ba Ria (Agenzia Fides) - Some of the 4,500 Eurasian children that at the end of the Indochina War (1946-1954) were sent to orphanages in France, have just returned to Vietnam to search their relatives who were left behin ...
• 10 April 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The rediscovery of the value of assisting the sick Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia, where Catholics are only 5%, Good Friday is still a holiday throughout the Country, in order to give the opportunity to Catholics to live the historical event of the passion and de ...
• 10 April 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - In Jordan and Palestine Catholics and Orthodox celebrate Easter according to the Julian Calendar Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Since last Wednesday, April 8, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal has been in Jordan to preside the liturgies of Holy Week, that the Latin Catholics of the Hashemite Kingdom are celebrati ...
• 10 April 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "Who knows must denounce the terrorists; the government has to address the obvious breakdown in the security intelligence system" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope the Government will get to the bottom of this problem of terrorism and radicalization with a view to proactively stemming such incidences from recurring", said the message of condolence ...
• 10 April 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A new law on religions is being studied Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Vietnam is considering the possibility of reforming the law regulating religious communities in the country: according to some representatives of Christian Churches, government o ...
• 10 April 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The massacres in Butembo are a crime against humanity" denounce religious orders in the area Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacres in the region of Mbau, in the Diocese of Butembo-Beni are clearly a crime against humanity", said the message written by members of the General Councils of different religious Or ...
• 9 April 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest killed Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Morelia (in the Mexican state of Michoacan), Cardinal Alberto Suárez Inda, announced the sad news of the murder of Fr. Francisco Javier Gutiérrez, pastor of Our Lady of the R ...
• 9 April 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: Iraqi families all expect to be able to return to their homes, and we are ready to help them start over Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I spent Palm Sunday in Amman, Jordan, where refugees are welcomed in parishes; then I transferred to Baghdad, Iraq. But I spent most of my time in the north, in the areas of Iraqi Kurdista ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas operator dies in the bombing in Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The operator of Caritas Syria, Safouh Al-Mosleh, was killed at noon on Tuesday, April 7, in the bombing that hit his home, located in Farhat square, where Greek-Catholic, Armenian and Maronite ca ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - School programs in the name of religious tolerance in Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the name of the affirmation of religious tolerance and respect for religious minorities, the Sindh government has included a well-known speech of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ...