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• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Twelve thousand children work as slaves on cocoa farms Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - According to the International Labour Office (ILO), 1 million 800 thousand children are engaged in cocoa plantations in West Africa, among these only 284 thousand are considered workers. The stu ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II writes to Pope Francis: let us unify the dates for the Easter celebration Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Tawadros II sent a letter to Pope Francis, on the occasion of the first anniversary of their meeting at the Vatican, in which among other things invites ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 28, 2013 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Salvator Ngendabanyikwa, of the Diocese of Ruyigi as National Dir ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - " Be careful not to go back to new forms of racial discrimination" says Cardinal Napier to voters Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - More than 25.3 million South Africans are called today, May 7, to the polls to elect a new Parliament. In turn, the MPs will elect the Head of State on May 21. It seems that outgoing Presid ...
• 7 May 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishop of Jaffna: "Our ministry is reconciliation" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In Sri Lanka, our ministry as Bishops and Christians is essentially that of reconciliation, which is the main urgency that the country lives": says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Emm ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - New assignments in the Episcopal Conference, always striving for the weakest Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the 25 dioceses of Ecuador, along with eight auxiliary Bishops (with the right to vote) have come together to elect today, May 7, the new President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Confe ...
• 7 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders remember and appreciate John Paul II Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Important Muslim leaders of Pakistan have visited an exhibition in Lahore to commemorate John Paul II, appreciating his figure. After seeing the photos of St. John Paul II, Syed Abdul Khabeer Aza ...
• 7 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Over the past six years more than 42 thousand people have disappeared involuntarily Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Violence in the last six years in Mexico has also increased human rights violations. An example of this phenomenon is given by the forced disappearance of 42 thousand 300 people, of whom alm ...
• 6 May 2014
  VATICAN - Archbishop Rugambwa: "the PMS are one of the most important and relevant instruments in order to hold high the priority of the Missio ad Gentes in the local Churches" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It has been a busy year of work": this is what His Exc. Mgr. Protase Rugambwa, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) said in his report at the opening of the General annual Assembly ...
• 6 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 6, 2014, the Holy Father, appointed Rev. Telesphore Bilung, S.V.D., currently Provincial Superior of the Divine Word Missionaries, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ranchi ( ...
• 6 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous children and adolescents forced to leave school to work or to marry Merida (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico and Yucatan, indigenous girls, boys and adolescents constitute a high proportion of the population vulnerable to the conditions of poverty in which they live, which lead them not to enj ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Vincent Fredrick Mwakhwawa, of the Archdiocese of Lilongwe as Na ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 4, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. David Tinashe Muguti, of the Diocese of Gweru as National Directo ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - First nuclear power plant in the country? Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The plan to build the first nuclear power plant in Banglasdesh - so far passed almost unnoticed - is generating a national debate that sees civil society groups, farmers and environmentalists oppo ...
• 5 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Episcopal Assembly begins: "It is impossible to get used to drugs and violence" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On May 5, the 107th Plenary Assembly of Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, presided by its President, Archbishop of Santa Fe, His Exc. Mgr. José María Arancedo begins in Bu ...