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• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC thanks Pope Francis for his interest regarding peace talks Havana (Agenzia Fides) - FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) have asked the Catholic Church to continue to follow, thanks to the encouragement expressed by Pope Francis, the peace talks being held in Havana, wi ...
• 29 April 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Lawyers and Islamic activists contest the application of the Sharia law to non-Muslims Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - A clause in Aceh's new Islamic criminal procedural codes, finally approved in February could see non-Muslims tried in Sharia Court (see Fides 15/02/2014 ), but lawyers, legal experts and huma ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Human trafficking, especially children, in Goma", denounces the local civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A network of human traffickers, most of whom are children, work in Goma, capital of North Kivu (in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The complaint, in a note sent to Fides Agency, is b ...
• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - International organizations committed to solving the new political crisis Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides ) - Yesterday, April 28 a delegation of the "Club of Madrid" met Prime Minister of Haiti Laurent Lamothe, with whom they discussed the need to hold elections this year, surpassing the new po ...
• 29 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million child workers, and 27% suffer from extreme poverty Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Children's Day, established by the United Nations on 30 April, the Mexican authorities have committed themselves to strengthening the struggle for the defense of children' ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Resignation of the Bishop of Loikaw and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Loikaw (Myanmar) by His Exc. Mgr. Sotero Phamo, in accordance with can. 401 § 2 of ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Children sold for sexual and labor exploitation and for the sale of organs Potosí (Agenzia Fides) - Child trafficking continues to increase silently in the region of Potosí in Bolivia, the poorest in the Country. According to a recent report published by the local press, until 2012, 15 000 ch ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Transparency in everything, because people must have confidence San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of El Salvador has ruled on the government's initiative to propose a truce among gangs to end the violence and said that any attempt regarding social peace must be b ...
• 28 April 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Seminarian kidnapped and murdered during Holy Week Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides ) - "The ecclesial community of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, through our Pastor, Mgr. Constancio Miranda Weckmann, announces with deep regret the death of our brother in Christ, Samuel Gustavo G ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A 7-year-old Christian Girl raped on Easter Sunday Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of those brutal acts, the emblem of the abuses suffered by Christians in Pakistan: on Easter Day, Saira, a 7-year-old Christian girl was raped by a Muslim man, Mohammad Alam Fakhar, in ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – The Bishop of Bossangoa: "The Muslim population of Bangui is held hostage by jihadists " Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim population of "Km 5" in Bangui is taken hostage by jihadist members that have infiltrated the capital of the Republic of Central Africa: this was reported to Fides Agency by His Exc. M ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - An exhibition on John Paul II, example of dialogue appreciated by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII; an exhibition dedicated to Pope Wojtyla: two events organized by the Catholic community in Pakistan was also at ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Aleppo again in the grip of war Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days attacks, incursions by rebels and operations of military retaliation in the Syrian city of Aleppo have intensified. An escalation which on Sunday 27 April devastated again even the ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Protecting the rights and education of poor rural people Mindanao (Agenzia Fides) - During the recent disasters that have occurred in the Philippines, the Camillian Task Force (CTF) have relied on the collaboration of the Missionary/Rural Associations of the Philippines (RMP), ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A reception center for the Congolese expelled from Brazzaville has been created in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo have created a reception center to assist its citizens who have been expelled from the neighboring Republic of Congo. The center, located in ...