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• 29 April 2015
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Half the population has no access to drinking water, 4,000 children die every year Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Water and sanitation on the island off the coast of Africa: this is the appeal launched by Catholic Mission Australia. Currently in Madagascar half the population has no access to safe drin ...
• 28 April 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Does one want to feed ethnic conflict again? Fear regarding rumors on the arrival of militias linked to power Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We visited at least six suburbs where demonstrations continue, but the police have created barriers with tires and old cars have been set on fire, to prevent demonstrators from entering the c ...
• 28 April 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Jesuits and Salesians engaged in disaster relief and assistance Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, April 25, a massive earthquake struck Nepal. The epicenter of the quake was approximately halfway between Kathmandu and the town of Pokhara in central Nepal. Deaths and destructi ...
• 28 April 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Theme chosen for Missionary Campaign 2015 in Brazil: "Mission is to serve" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is to serve" is the theme chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) for Missionary Campaign 2015, which will take place in October in all the dioceses of Brazil. Reflection for ...
• 28 April 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL – Health care is on the verge of collapse, drinking water and electricity is lacking, while the aftershocks continue Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world and at the same time full of a huge cultural heritage that has been devastated by the earthquake, while the number of deaths continues to inc ...
• 28 April 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Omar Hassan al-Bashir re-elected President with 94% of the votes Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was re-elected Head of State in the elections held two weeks ago (see Fides 13/04/2015). Official data of the National Electoral Commission s ...
• 28 April 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Catholicos Aram I appeals to the Turkish Constitutional Court for the return of properties to the Catholicosate Antelias (Agenzia Fides) – Today Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church submitted to the Constitutional Court of Turkey the appeal demanding the return of the residences and p ...
• 28 April 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Catholic Church in Nepal Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first Catholic priest to enter Nepal was the Portuguese Jesuit Father Juan Cabral, in 1628. In 1670 King Pratap Malla invited the Jesuits to settle in the country. In 1703 the Italian Capuchins ...
• 28 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sinai jihadist groups threaten Copts for their support to President al-Sisi Al-Arish (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Christians must leave their homes and the Sinai Peninsula if they do not want to die for the next targeted attacks that jihadist groups operating in the Peninsula are preparing to ca ...
• 27 April 2015
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Cardinal Filoni in Lyon: "Pauline-Marie Jaricot, touched by faith, was a torch bearer" Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - "Pauline-Marie Jaricot, touched by faith, was a torchbearer, who constantly loved transmitting the light she had received". This was stated by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation ...
• 27 April 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles: "There is corruption, mistrust, culture of violence, but we must propose a Church that goes forth" Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - President of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara (Jalisco) in an interview with the local newspaper "El Pais", sent to Agenzia ...
• 27 April 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - First emergency measures in favor of the disabled people affected by the earthquake Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The earthquake has brought destruction and death among the people of Nepal and, in these times of uncertainty, there is an alarming fact: the death rate of people with disabilities is twice th ...
• 27 April 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Demonstrations for the third presidential term: the army prevents the police to use tear gas against protesters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The army is preventing the police to launch tear gas against protesters", say local sources to Agenzia Fides from the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, where since yesterday there have been demon ...
• 27 April 2015
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - We cannot forget the figure of Mgr. Juan Gerardi, who fought for a different Guatemala Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "It is very important to remember Monsignor Gerardi and follow his example" said Nohemi Bac, 25, a native of the indigenous department of Alta Verapaz, during a celebration that took plac ...
• 27 April 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Indigenous people live in poverty but maintain their traditions Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous people who survive in poverty in Paraguay have lost the dominion of their ancestral lands, but continue to maintain their strong cultural identity and self-determination that cha ...