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• 7 May 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The social media revolution has arrived in Papua Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In order to go to school, look for a job, go shopping, go to church or participate in the prayer, the young people of Papua use Facebook: the social network, now widely spread among young p ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A sad record to abolish: 5 million internally displaced persons Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia there are 4.9000000 to 5.5000000 displaced according to the report prepared by the Church through the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral, on the basis of data collected by the Se ...
• 7 May 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another priest killed Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been killed in Colombia. Father José Antonio Bayona Valle, 48 years old, a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Barranquilla (Colombia) was killed last night with 18 s ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/NEPAL - We need to change behavioral attitudes to combat malnutrition Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Across the country, child malnutrition, which causes stunting (low height for age, also known as chronic malnutrition) and other long-term effects on health, is not due to food insecurity or l ...
• 6 May 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - "Let us wait to have more information before speaking out about the attack in Arusha" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to have precise information before expressing ourselves about what happened, because the situation is very delicate," say to Fides Agency sources of the local Church from Tanzania ...
• 6 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Persecution against migrants increases, Mgr. Arizmendi’s complaint San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - "In these last days the persecution of migrants has intensified by organized crime in the area of Palenque" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, Bishop of San C ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: Easter in the tears of our Orthodox brothers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "They sang 'Christ is risen', and while repeating those words of joy and victory, they all had tears in their eyes. All their prayers mingled with their tears." With this image the Chaldean Bisho ...
• 6 May 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "What are the true intentions of Seleka towards us?" Ask the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Never this anymore, no to impunity". Is the title of the letter sent to the new Central African President, Michel-Am Nondroko Djotodia, from the three Bishops of the Metropolitan diocese of Bang ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Islamic radicals ravage Dhaka: Archbishop's appeal for peace Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of violence, "an effort of good will and peace, from all parts of society" is needed: is what the Archbishop of Dhaka, Patrick D'Rozario asks for in a statement released after the unre ...
• 6 May 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Clashes on mining. "One must avoid violence and protect the rights of communities," says a Bishop Jalapa (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to maintain calm and unity before the latest violence was addressed to the people by Mgr. Julio Cabrera Ovalle, Bishop of Jalapa (Guatemala). Mgr. Cabrera also recalls that the authorit ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - After the election, a plan of "national reconciliation" Kuala lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - A new process of "national reconciliation" to dampen the ethnic and religious polarization in Malaysian society: is the path outlined by Prime Minister Najib Razak, of the "Barisan National ...
• 3 May 2013
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - 70,000 confirmed cases of dengue Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Paraguay is experiencing the worst dengue epidemic ever recorded in the country. According to the data released by the Directorate of Health Supervision, of the more than 100,000 reported, 70 ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Young Christians organize markets to pay for the trip to the next WYD Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, May 1 at the Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in Baghdad the do-it-yourself market organized by young Iraqi Christians was inaugurated in order to find funds to support the expenses o ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishop of Galle: "Dialogue with Buddhists, no to all forms of violence. The Pope encourages us " Galle (Agenzia Fides) - Heartfelt concern for the violence that occurs in Sri Lanka; renewed appeal of dialogue and willingness to "build social and religious harmony in the country"; "thanks for the Pope’s words to th ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - Kidnapping and torture of migrants released by military raids Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The Yemeni army has launched a crackdown on illegal trafficking in the north of the country where migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and refugees from the Horn of Africa are often held captive an ...