News

• 11 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Justice and Peace" denounces: "The hunger for money is killing us" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "For over 20 years we have been through rough moments with incalculable consequences on our daily life and our ecosystem" says the statement of the "Justice and Peace" Diocesan Commission of th ...
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  11 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The construction work of the separation Wall in the Cremisan have started again; condemnation of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The construction work of the separation wall in the Cremisan has intensified at the beginning of April 2016 and has entered its operational phase. After excavators and bulldozers, cranes are n ...
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  9 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The experience of the missionary children: "Listen to the word, communicate it to those who still do not know it" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to tell you about the initiative that I am carrying out with my Catholic children in Adaba" says to Fides Don Giuseppe Ghirelli, a diocesan fidei donum missionary. "Every week, on Thursday ...
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  9 April 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - The critical health situation after a year of conflict Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - Data reported by WHO: Since the escalation of the conflict in Yemen, more than 6000 people have been killed and 30 000 injured in Yemen. More than 21 million people, 82% of the total population a ...
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  9 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Czech government: Christian Refugee Program Halted Prague (Agenzia Fides) - The Czech government has cancelled its "selected" program reserved for Christian Iraqi refugees forced to leave their homes in the Nineveh Plain fallen under the contol of the jihadists of the Is ...
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  9 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Former Italian missionary Del Torchio released Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – Businessman and former missionary Rolando Del Torchio, kidnapped in Dipolog City last October, was released on Friday, April 8. The Philippine police - reported local military sources - pick ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Classical music to help street children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Nairobi Classics association has organized a series of concerts regarding the best musicians around the world in Nairobi whose fundraising will be destined to Ghetto Classics, a group that c ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Skepticism from the opposition about the possible dispatch of UN police officers in Burundi Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the UN Security Council to send an international contingent of police was welcomed with strong skepticism by the opposition and civil society. In their view, this will not hel ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: may the entry of Jesus in Egypt be celebrated as a national holiday Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian Coptic Christians are preparing to celebrate the feast of Jesus' entry into Egypt, which this year falls on July 1. In view of this liturgical and spiritual appointment, Coptic Orthodox B ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - In Gaza, the ruins of an ancient Byzantine church destroyed by bulldozers to make way for a shopping center Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The ruins of an ancient Byzantine church, re-emerged during construction work of a shopping center, have been removed by bulldozers and the local authorities did nothing to protect the precious his ...
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  8 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - First stone of the new main church in Siuna Siuna (Agenzia Fides) – There was great joy for the laying of the foundation stone on April 3, of what will be the main church in Siuna, a very poor Nicaraguan municipality, abandoned by state services, and part of the ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - After the signing of the agreement with the rebels of Western Equatoria "comes the arduous task of rebuilding" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first kind of peace deal to be realized in one of the 28 countries of Southern Sudan" stressed His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, in his speech at ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - A video game to raise awareness about the plight of many children Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Cross Dakar City is the name of a video game that highlights the serious situations in which some Senegalese children live, and that shows that video games can be used to offer social awareness. T ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A forum of NGOs to be closer to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To set up a national network of non-governmental agencies to improve and better coordinate the work of support and development among the poorest of society: with this spirit the Indian Jesui ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods in the North, people isolated Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - "The floods have mainly affected the extreme North of the country, the territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, a very difficult area to reach due to the conformation of the territory. Only the army is ...