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• 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 ...
• 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 ...