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• 21 November 2014
  AFRICA/MALI – Ebola: annual pilgrimage postponed Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The annual pilgrimage organized by the Catholic Church that was to take place from November 20 to 23 in Kita, the oldest parish in Mali, has been postponed due to the spread of the Ebola virus. T ...
• 21 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Children without citizenship: the question of Palestinian children not registered reopens Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Many Palestinian children in East Jerusalem continue not to have an ID card or proof of permanent residency. Their condition was analyzed during a conference hosted on November 19 in Jerusalem ...
• 21 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Malaria: preventive treatment to 735 000 children Bouza (Agenzia Fides) - Seasonal malaria chemoprevention treatment (SMC) has shown extremely promising results in reducing the burden of malaria in young children in the Sahel region of Africa. To reach as many children ...
• 20 November 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Support of the Church with regards to the formation of political consciousness for democratic reform Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On November 18 the Episcopal Council for the Pastoral Care (CONSEP), a body of the Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), discussed the issue of political reform in Brazil. According to the no ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against minorities: the governor of Punjab meets religious leaders Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After the tragedy in Kasur - where a Christian married couple was burned to death for alleged blasphemy - the governor of Punjab, Muhammad Sarwar, met with a delegation of Christian and Muslim re ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Thousands of children from Gaza are disabled because of wars Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The military conflict in the Gaza Strip has had serious consequences on the lives of Palestinian children and their families. There are about a thousand young children who are handicapped because o ...
• 20 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Archbishop Monsalve Mejia: "The general kidnapped will soon be released" Cali (Agenzia Fides) - "General Rubén Darío Alzate could be released in the next 48 hours". This is what the Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesús Monsalve Mejia said in an interview with Colombian broadcas ...
• 20 November 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 2 and a half million children live in shelters, on the streets or in cars Washington (Agenzia Fides) - A report of the National Center for Homeless Families (NCFH) revealed that, in America, last year 2.5 million children were living in shelters, on the streets, in cars, or in fields unattende ...
• 20 November 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Award given to the leaders of the "platform of Religious for Peace", including the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an award given to people who in the midst of violence have managed to give another message, that of love, tolerance, social cohesion, of living together", said His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nza ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Muslims: The barbarous acts committed in the name of Islam recalls Nazism. And your reactions are weak Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - Unlike "Nazis and other deadly ideologies of the twentieth century", the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) carry out their barbaric acts "in the name of Islam". This is ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - New jihadist blackmail for Christians in Mosul: If you do not pay, your houses will be blown up Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Several Christian refugees from the city of Mosul reveal that they have been blackmailed by self-styled militants of the Islamic State, who have threatened to blow up their houses from which they ...
• 19 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Ebola: No new cases registered in the Country Boende (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola epidemic which broke out in early August in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now under control. No new cases have been registered since October 4 in Boende. According to World He ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – From the Bishops a "Magna Charta" to the government: to curb religious intolerance Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The increase in violence and religious intolerance threatens social and civil life in Pakistan" and highlights "the failure of the civil and the judiciary administration". Therefore urgent "m ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Attacks and arrests in a Mennonite Christian Center Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen and police officers raided a Christian Mennonite center in Binh Duong Province. Militants and police raided the center armed with iron bars and hammers during the night of 12 November, terr ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian houses looted also by the Kurdish Peshmerga militias Tel Isqof (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Tel Isqof, a village in the Nineveh plains 15 kilometers from Tilkaif denounce the looting in their homes carried out by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, who have been controlling ...