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• 21 August 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against minorities: a 12-year-old Christian girl raped by a gang Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Indignation and outrage in the Christian community of Lahore after the rape of a 12-year-old Christian girl. Muqadas, is the daughter of the Christian Liaqat Masih who has four daughters. As Fide ...
• 21 August 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections postponed and there is growing uncertainty about the future of the Country Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Provisional Electoral Council of Haiti has announced that the planned legislative and municipal elections on October 26 have been postponed, causing tension in a Country which has bee ...
• 20 August 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Barzani: ready to arm Christian volunteers Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, announced that the government of the autonomous Region of northern Iraq is ready to open its doors to Christian volunt ...
• 20 August 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The number of migrants who are victims of human trafficking increases Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - "Human trafficking is modern-day slavery that affects mainly women and children", said Mgr. Raúl Vera López, Bishop of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), who denounced that the number of people who ...
• 20 August 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian leaders in Pakistan: "The international community must wake up" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Condemnation regarding the violence and the massive migration of Iraqi Christians; appeal to the international community to ensure safety to all religious minorities in Iraq: is what Christian ...
• 20 August 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Only mercy can make justice a reality", said Cardinal Salazar Gómez Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Colombia is capable of mercy", said Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez at the III World Apostolic Congress on Mercy WACOM, held in Bogota from August 15 to 19, which was attended by 4 Cardinals, 7 b ...
• 20 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Security agents release South Sudanese news editor South Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudanese editor who was detained by the country’s national security services on Saturday has been freed. David Ocen, the news editor of the Catholic-owned Bakhita radio, was picked by secu ...
• 20 August 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai: united also with Hezbolllah to block the road to the infiltration of the ISIL Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Bechara Boutros Rai said he was ready to meet soon the leader of Hezbollah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in order to address together the growing concerns about ...
• 20 August 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Ill-gotten wealth from oil bunkering could be used to destabilize", said the Bishop of Umuahia Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Ill-gotten wealth from the theft of the country’s crude oil and its illegal refining could be used to destabilize the country. This is the alarm launched by Bishop Lucius Ugorji, Bishop of Umuah ...
• 19 August 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - A Christian pastor released from prison, in Tibet Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Protestant Pastor Chhedar Bhote Lhomi, 37, was freed from blame and released from prison, he is now free after a bad experience of detention. As Fides learns, the Pastor lives in a remote area ...
• 19 August 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Assist families but without interfering in their private lives", said the Bishop of Matagalpa Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the State should take care of families, but without having control over them" said Mgr. Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua), in a letter sent to Fide ...
• 19 August 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - End of the war and federal solution: the Burmese Bishops' appeal Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate end of the civil war and of the suffering of the population; protection of human rights and civil rights; search for a permanent solution to the conflict through federalism: are the hea ...
• 19 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops' Conference define the closure of Radio Bakhita "unfortunate" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference or SCBC Secretary-General, Fr. Jacob Odwa remarked that the closure of Bakhita Radio: the voice of the church at the service of lives is just "unfortunate". On ...
• 19 August 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – "It is worrying to see Boko Haram trying to conquer territories", said the Archbishop of Lagos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Boko Haram insurgency is becoming even more worrisome that they were trying to “conquer” territories that the military have to try and liberate", said His Exc. Mgr. Alfred Adewale Martins ...
• 19 August 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The church calls on the authorities to change the situation in prisons Santa Rosa de Copán (Agenzia Fides) - "The detainees are in the "suburbs" of society where they suffer from total exclusion, despair and depression", says the National Commission for Prison Pastoral Care of the Episcopa ...