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• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - A task force of the Church to combat the trafficking of women and young girls Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) –Human being trafficking and exploitation, especially women and girls, is a social evil in India, according to estimates it affects 20 to 60 million victims, and on which crime flourishes. It i ...
• 4 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Cholera continues to claim victims among children and 750 000 people risk starvation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After 20 years of war, Somalia is currently experiencing a very serious famine and so far 55 children have died of cholera and severe malnutrition. In the southern region of Bay, about 250 kil ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case, "a bridge between Christians and Muslims", recalling Salman Taseer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi’s case, an innocent victim of the abuse of the blasphemy law, must be "a bridge, not a wall, between Muslims and Christians", which can form an alliance "together to save a human life ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Farewell to death penalty: all those condemned to death sentence are commuted to life imprisonment Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a further turning point, announced by the government of Myanmar, in the field of the new measure of amnesty which concerns hundreds of prisoners: in addition to significant reductions in pu ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - After 20 years since the Peace Agreements, the Church calls for a new national social Pact San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The budget of twenty years is positive but today the country needs "something more": just days before the 20th anniversary of the historic "peace agreements" signed on January 16, 1992 in ...
• 4 January 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sad toll for 2011 in Colombia: 117 children killed Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011 117 children were murdered in Colombia, 41 of them under 5 years of age. This is what emerges from the statistics, sent to Fides, on the toll statements released at the end of 2011 concer ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taseer’s murder "a disgrace to Pakistan, where nothing has changed" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "A year after the death of Governor Salman Taseer, who was killed on January 4, 2011, nothing has changed. The human rights defenders are fearful and silent. The blasphemy law seems to be untouch ...
• 3 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The "Star Singers" of Czestochowa help the children of Sudan Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people of Holy Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, in the days between 26 December 2011 and January 6, 2012, are giving birth to their now usual Christmas activit ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for an election campaign without violence Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, has asked the aspirants to the presidency of the Republic for a campaign that is worthy of the importance of consult ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Every day 41 children disappear, involved in criminal gangs or destined to exploitation Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico 41 children disappear every day. According to UNICEF, over the past 5 years over 75 000 children have gone missing, of whom about 20 000 are victims of traffickers. In the period 2 ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 492 000 families in extreme poverty sustained in 2011 Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In 2011, the social program Juntos supported a total of 492,871 families in Peru who live in extreme poverty in 702 districts of 116 provinces of 14 departments. This social initiative is active in ...
• 3 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" pastoral letter for 2012 of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" is the theme of the 2012 pastoral letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, signed on January 1, Solemnity of ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "It is not enough to add years to life, but it is necessary to give life to years" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In a long homily during the Mass on the first day of the new year, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, highlighted that Honduras has its sense of direction, ...
• 3 January 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - Bishops make the program known about the Pope's visit to Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mexican Episcopal Conference (see Fides 02/01/2012), the Cuban Episcopal Conference announced the program of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in Cuba The text of the statement, of which a co ...
• 3 January 2012
  ASIA - "Asian of the Year": the Catholic Shabhaz Bhatti or the dissident Ai Weiwei? Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Is Shabhaz Bhatti, a Pakistani Catholic minister murdered, or Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident and blogger the "Asian of the Year 2011"? : this is the debate registered by Fides among organiz ...