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• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar of Major Superiors: for a new identity of the local Church Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Sacred Scripture, Liturgy, spiritual deepening, missionary responsibility of the laity for a new identity of the particular Church in Taiwan: these were the main themes discussed at the Seminar ...
• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - State of emergency in the west of the country: Church's appeal for peace Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is dramatic, tension is very high among the ethnic majority communities of the Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya population. We hope that the civil authorities can restore peace. As a ...
• 11 June 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "The country needs peace and reconciliation" says Cardinal López Rodríguez to politicians Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, spoke again of the situation that the country lives and prayed for the new government. "We ask God to assist the ...
• 11 June 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY- Over 215 million child workers worldwide, half are exploited and used in risky situations Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 215 million child workers worldwide, of whom 115 million are subjected and exploited in hazardous work without any security. This is what emerges from the report just presen ...
• 11 June 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Missing persons or murder disguised? San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, showed during his usual press conference on Sunday, his concern about the number of missing persons reported with an i ...
• 11 June 2012
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church in Papua committed to the new evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The main focus of the Church in Papua New Guinea is the new evangelization." This is what His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Joseph Reichert, OFM Cap, Archbishop of Madang says in an interview with Fid ...
• 11 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are dealing with a group of criminals, we are not dealing with ethnic and religious cleansing," said Mgr. Kaigama, who calls for caution Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are dealing with a group of criminals who think that the Church is an enemy, because in their eyes it embodies Western culture. But I do not think that this is the vision of the majority of Mu ...
• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The choice of the poor: either send their children to school or eat Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "Values such as equality, justice and education can and should bring Pakistan out of the hellish vortex of poverty and exploitation involving adults and children." This is the testimony sent to Fi ...
• 11 June 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Civilians fleeing the south-west after the killing of 7 "Blue Helmets" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The population is fleeing their villages in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire after the ambush on 8 June that claimed the lives of seven "Blue Helmets", from Niger, of the UN Force in Côte d'Ivo ...
• 11 June 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Azerbaijan for the 10th anniversary of Blessed John Paul II's visit Baku (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy to be here with you today in Baku, presiding this Eucharistic Celebration and joining you in thanking the Lord on the occasion of the tenth Anniversary of the historic and unforget ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/IRAN - A Protestant church ordered to close, the crackdown on churches continues Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - A Protestant church of the "Assembly of God" in the Janat-Abad area of Tehran, has been ordered the immediate closure by intelligence Branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to local ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - "Too charismatic, too many conversions": A Christian Pastor arrested Luang Namtha (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian leader was arrested in Laos. The Christian Pastor Asa Sing, 53 years of age, head of a Protestant Christian Church in the village of Peeyeur in the district of Sing, within the ...
• 9 June 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Argentina, the national campaign "Zero Poverty, dignity for all" has begun Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Zero Poverty, dignity for all" is the title of the new campaign of Caritas Argentina, launched today, June 9, as Fides learned from the Episcopal Conference Argentina. Mgr. Oscar Vicente ...
• 9 June 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - More than 500 thousand children without school education: emergency Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 thousand children in Haiti are without a school education, the overall illiteracy rate is over 50% and the right to education is denied to thousands of families: is the alar ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Urgent reform of the judicial and penal system: essential step in the rule of law Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar must eliminate from the justice and penal system practices such as illegal and arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, forced confessions, processes behind closed doors, death ...