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• 22 September 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 70,000 children accused of witchcraft and persecuted Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70,000 Congolese children were tortured, abandoned, killed, because accused of witchcraft. Only in the region of Kinsasha 30,000 street children were removed from their families for t ...
• 22 September 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - The jihadists of the Islamic State destroy the memorial church of the Armenian Genocide in Deir el-Zor Deir el-Zor (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) have destroyed an Armenian church in Deir el Zor, the city with a Kurdish majority, which they conquered in past days. The news, spread by local witne ...
• 22 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Mercy and Compassion" is the theme of the Pope's visit Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The theme that will mark Pope Francis’ visit in the Philippines (from 15 to 19 January 2015) is "mercy and compassion": this was announced, in a note sent to Fides Agency, by the Catholic Bisho ...
• 22 September 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Refugees in Liberia blocked due to Ebola Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) -The voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees in Liberia should have taken place in July. The Ebola outbreak in the neighboring Country has instead led the Ivorian authorities to close the borde ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/URUGUAY – The meeting of the PMS of the American Southern Cone: working together for the mission Ad gentes Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the American Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil), met from 11 to 14 September on the outs ...
• 19 September 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Even an Israeli NGO gives aid to Yazidi and Christian refugees Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli non-governmental organization IsrAID, engaged in humanitarian relief missions in various parts of the world, has started to offer its support to Christian and Yazidi refugees who h ...
• 19 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leader accused of blasphemy killed: civil society meeting to ask for harmony Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A liberal and moderate Muslim scholar who had been accused of blasphemy for a speech during a visit in the United States, was killed yesterday in Karachi. Muhammad Shakil Auj was the dean of Isl ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - The activist who fought for the Amazonian forest, against the deforestation of his land killed Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Edwin Chota, a leader of the Ashaninka community of the High Tamaya, in Peru, was killed along with three other members of his ethnic group, in an area on the border between Brazil and Peru. Edwin ...
• 19 September 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Proclaiming the Gospel in an Amazonian context: the challenge for the Bishop of Puerto Leguizamo-Solano Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the reality is quite intercultural, the Catholic Church remains the only institution that enjoys credibility": these are the words expressed by His Exc. Mgr. Joaquin Humberto Pinzón Gü ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - There are 25 cities in the hands of Boko Haram: the complaint of the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Boko Haram has taken control of 25 cities in the north-eastern part of Nigeria: said His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, Borno State capital. Msg. Doeme, who was forced to flee ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The army rebuilds a Catholic school devastated by Islamists in Beni Suef Beni Suef (Agenzia Fides) – The primary school of Beni Suef, run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was burned and destroyed during the Islamist assaults suffered by churches and Christian ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan's Bakhita Radio can resume broadcasts, but without political issues Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan's Bakhita Radio, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Juba, capital of South Sudan, can resume broadcasts. This was reported to CISA Agency in Nairobi by the radio director, Albino Tokwaro, ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU – Bishops’ statement: Ebola virus - awareness and prevention Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Worried about the real threat of the virus, we invite all our communities to seek more information on the evolution of the situation and to continue to implement all necessary measures to preven ...
• 18 September 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "The Church has to monitor society so that it does not go adrift", says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Ivory Coast is still suffering the consequences of the political and institutional crisis that lasted more than 10 years, which ended in 2011 with the intervention of the UN and French troop ...
• 18 September 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - XV national meeting of the pastoral care of human mobility: "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus" Yucatán (Agenzia Fides) - "Listening to the migrant brother is like listening to the voice of Jesus. Hence our mission is to restore the dignity of the migrant ... Today, the agent of the pastoral, priest, religious or ...