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• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians kidnapped: after Houla, they are possible target for revenge Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian Christians are a possible target of revenge by armed groups and Sunni Islamic militants who want to avenge the massacre of Houla. And they are privileged victims of kidnappings. As fa ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/TURKEY - Prime Minister Erdogan. "Abortion is murder, yes to the law to abolish it" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is murder": is what the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a meeting with groups and women's associations in Turkey. "What is the difference between killing a ...
• 30 May 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Taylor sentenced to 50 years imprisonment, "but who will pay the victims of violence?" Asks a missionary Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a sign that men should remember to atone their sins, but it is not true justice, which we leave to the mercy of God," said Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experie ...
• 30 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Meeting of Families in Milan: Bolivia present, with a NO to gay couples Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Before leaving for Milan (Italy) headquarters of the Seventh International Meeting of Families, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Bascopé, Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, said that for the four Bolivian c ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas strongly condemns the "DIY justice" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, has strongly condemned the scourge of the "DIY justice". "It is really scary to know when someone is lynched, as if it were a significant fa ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-With the Day of Prayer for the Church in China "the springtime of the Church" has arrived Shao Guan (Agenzia Fides) - With the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China "spring has arrived for the church of Shao Guan", in the diocese of Guang Zhou: is what the local priest said. In fact on May 24 the local ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Presidentials: runoff between the candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood and the army Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The two realities better organized won: the Muslim Brotherhood, thanks to their social networks spread throughout Egypt, the military and the great bureaucracy state " say to Fides local sources ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The plight of migrants repatriated by force to their country Toncontin (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty, social status and violence are the factors that continue to push our compatriots to leave the country, following a dangerous path, full of pain and suffering," said Sister Valdete Wi ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Civil Society: a power vacuum, there is a risk of violence and profiteering Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Uncertainty, lack of clarity and perspective, fear dominates the social and political climate in Kathmandu, shaken yesterday by protests outside the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly, w ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda denies supporting the Congolese guerrilla Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Rwanda has denied with a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, the allegations contained in a confidential report of the United Nations on the recruit ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-Appointment of Bishop of Nkongsamba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012, appointed Rev. Dieudonné Espoir Atangana of the clergy of Obala as Bishop of the Diocese of Nkongsamba Cameroon, he was the former rector of t ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Erection of the Diocese of Bafang and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012 established the new Diocese of Bafang in Cameroon (from the Diocese of Nkongsamba), making it a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Douala, and appo ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-Many believers received Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion at Pentecost Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The continental Catholic community celebrated the feast of Pentecost with the administration of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion to many of the faithful, and ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church must be present in working panel discussions with indigenous communities Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Manuel Camilo Vial, underlined that the Church must participate in working panel discussions with indigenous communities, announced by President ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christian family murdered in Punjab Okara (Agenzia Fides) – An entire Christian family was brutally killed in Punjab. Four people were slaughtered in the Christian colony of Muhala Ahmad, in the city of Okara, in the south of Lahore, capital of Punjab. T ...