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• 17 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Caritas Iraq intensifies aid for 6 thousand refugee families in Dohuk Dohuk (Agenzia Fides) - The team of Caritas Iraq working in the region of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, has launched the support program that provides for the distribution of aid and the provision of assistance to 6 thousan ...
• 17 December 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Twenty new radio stations in Darfur and South Kordofan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - In January, Sudan plans to launch ten shortwave radio stations in Darfur, and ten in South Kordofan. The new stations will present programs in local dialects, in response to the transmissions o ...
• 17 December 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The campaign against hunger begins again, especially to help poor families San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - In order to decrease the number of Costa Ricans who suffer from hunger (about 400,000 according to the report by FAO), the Foundation Caritas Costa Rica promotes a fundraiser through the campai ...
• 17 December 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Camilliani committed to face the threat of Ebola virus Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - So far there have been no recorded cases of Ebola in Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo, but the probability is very high because of the proximity to the countries that have confirmed the presence ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Land grabbing, instrument of oppression against Christians Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - There is a subtle instrument of oppression against Christians in Pakistan: land grabbing. It is a phenomenon that consists of systematically expropriating Christian families of their land (large p ...
• 16 December 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Last round of by-elections, the local Church sends observers to polling stations Penonomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Panama has announced that it will appoint observers for the by-elections of 21 December 2014. The note sent to Agenzia Fides explains that elctions are being held in Pan ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Year of the consecrated life: Sisters in brothels to save the enslaved prostitutes Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - For the Indian religious women the Year of consecrated Life means a strong return to the contemplative dimension but also a renewed commitment to action: with this awareness, a group of four si ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The autonomous region of Kurdistan includes Syriac and Armenian among the official languages Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, has approved the new legislation which also includes Armenian and Syriac among the five official languages used in the t ...
• 16 December 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Climate change: Christians in defense of the weak and of their suffering Lima (Agenzia Fides) - After two weeks of intense negotiations within the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, Cop20, (see Fides 03/12/2014), held in Lima (Peru) from 1 to 12 December, the 196 participating count ...
• 16 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More groups commit massacres against civilians in Beni: maybe a new war? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the territory of Beni, which belongs to the province of North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the situation of extreme insecurity is becoming more dramatic and intolerable: m ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation of Bishop of Hyderabad and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 December 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Hyderabad in Pakistan, by His Exc. Mgr. Max John Rodrigues, in accordance with ca ...
• 16 December 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Corruption and intra-party conflicts threaten democracy" say the Christian confessions Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We lament at the failure of political leadership in Zambia today. There is far too much hypocrisy and rhetoric. It is for this reason that there is no evidence in the fight against corruption", ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - More than 7,000 Christian refugees from Iraq; Caritas Jordan: "in two months we will not have anymore resources to assist them" Amman (Agenzia Fides) – There are now more than 7000 Iraqi Christians who have fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain and have found refuge in Jordan and the resources available for their assistance will end within two mont ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 28, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed His Exc. Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of El Alto as National Director ...
• 15 December 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church reminds authorities that they even have to respond to the law for their actions León (Agenzia Fides) - In response to President Enrique Peña Nieto, who a few days ago said that one has to "move past" the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, the Archdiocese of León instead asked the Presid ...