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• 19 December 2014
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - One hundred thousand children cannot attend school because of the floods Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred thousand Moroccan children have not been attending school since November due to severe floods and heavy rains that have hit southern Morocco, severely damaging bridges, roads and infra ...
• 18 December 2014
  AMERICA/CUBA - "New horizons of hope brighten the lives of the Cuban people", says the Bishops' Conference Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Lord because new horizons of hope brighten the lives of the Cuban people, because good relations without tensions between peoples, who are so close, are the foundation of a promisin ...
• 18 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: a minute of silence in Catholic schools, at Christmas prayer for peace Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Catholic schools across Pakistan will observe a minute of silence and gathering during the morning prayer, remembering the victims of the Taliban attack in the military school in Pes ...
• 18 December 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishop of Alotau’s appeal for the population Alotau (Agenzia Fides) - "I launch an emergency appeal for the people of the Southeast of my diocese, Alotau. Thousands of people are suffering from a severe shortage of food and are starving because of Ita cyclone, whic ...
• 18 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Islamic State turns the monastery of St. George into a prison, the cross on the dome removed Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Mosul, captured by jihadist militants of the Islamic State (IS) in June, Christian churches continue to be turned into prisons. Last weekend, the jihadists of the IS transferred at ...
• 18 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Ebola: appeal of the Hospital in Serabu; for FAO a million people at risk of hunger Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation due to the epidemic of Ebola is really horrible. Our health workers are subjected to very serious risks, and some of them have lost their lives", said Fr. Paul Sandi, Secretary G ...
• 18 December 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - For Mgr. Falla Robles: "The unilateral cease-fire should take place without any conditions" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The unilateral cease-fire should take place without conditions", said the Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr José Daniel Falla Robles, Auxiliary of Cali, up ...
• 18 December 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of His Beatitude Patriarch Twal: tragedies and hopes of a difficult year Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy City of Jerusalem "is under blood and tears" and religious antagonism jeopardizes its mission of "city of peace and inter-religious coexistence". The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fou ...
• 18 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes among MPs on anti-terrorism law could put fundamental freedoms at risk Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes among MPs of the majority and the opposition in Parliament in Nairobi occurred during the vote on the controversial anti-terrorism law that would weaken, according to several members hum ...
• 18 December 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops: not only diplomatic relations with Cuba, but also cooperation in various fields New Mexico (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Cantù, Bishop of Las Cruces and President of the Episcopal Commission "Justice and Peac ...
• 17 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Justice and Peace" Commission: after the massacre in Peshawar it is urgent to "rediscover unity" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The only path, the only answer to the terrible massacre in Peshawar is to rediscover the unity of the country; to rediscover the core of humanity and coexistence that founds the nation; to send ...
• 17 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: "The Taliban and Pakistan are incompatible" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre of Peshawar marks a division in the history of Pakistan and incontrovertibly establishes that "the Taliban and Pakistan are incompatible": says a note of the "Human Rights Commission ...
• 17 December 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and government meet again Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The presidency of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina (CEA) will be received on Monday, December 22 by the President of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner. The meeting takes place after some fr ...
• 17 December 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parishes of Maiduguri cares for more than 5,000 displaced people fleeing Boko Haram Maiduguri (Fides) – The situation of displaced persons welcomed in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in northern Nigeria is dramatic. This has also posed a great risk as boko haram militia now disguise as displaced pe ...
• 17 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Meeting of the "wise men" begins today to put an end to the massacres in the territory of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A three-day meeting will be held today, December 17, in Beni, North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) to try to put an end to the spiral of violence that is shaking the Territory Be ...