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• 6 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Still demonstrations against corruption, while other scandals come to light Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference, representing the Catholic pilgrim people in Honduras, joins all those who fight for a better country and proclaims that there can be no peace without social justice ...
• 6 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New attacks of Boko Haram: a mosque and a Protestant Church Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – At least 44 dead and 48 wounded is the provisional toll of the twin bombings perpetrated on Sunday, July 5 in Jos, capital of Plateau State (in north-central Nigeria), attributed to Boko Haram T ...
• 6 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Noma severely affects the poorest and malnourished children Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Severe malnutrition in Niger continues paving the way for Noma disease to claim more victims among poverty-stricken children, most of whom feel socially outcast as they see the infection eating a ...
• 3 July 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Demonstration for Haitians who risk expulsion from the Dominican Republic Ouanaminthe (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of Catholic faithful and numerous citizens of Ouanaminthe, a small town north-east of Haiti, on the border with the Dominican Republic, took part in a march of solidarity with Haitia ...
• 3 July 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Lost childhood in coffee plantations Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 25% of Peru's population, or 7 million 700 thousand people, live in poverty, mainly in rural areas. One million people live in extreme poverty, less than one dollar a day. To help families, thousan ...
• 3 July 2015
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Evangelii Gaudium in Bahasha language Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" will be translated in Bahasha, the indigenous language spoken by the majority of the population of Malaysia and Indonesia. As Agenz ...
• 3 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The founding conference of the Chaldean League has concluded Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The first elected President of the Chaldean League, the organization - strongly supported by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I - that celebrated from the first to July 3 its founding conferenc ...
• 3 July 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops offer their support to dialogue for social peace Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, met with several Bishops who have offered their support to national dialogue, as was announced by the Government House in a statement sent ...
• 3 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram wants to punish Muslims who rebel against their violence", says a priest from Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "These terrible attacks against the Muslim community are signs of weakness and not of strength", says Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Abuja, capita ...
• 3 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - One hundred years of mission in the media for the Daughters of St. Paul Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Daughters of St. Paul celebrate one hundred years of mission and proclamation of the Gospel in the world of mass media: as Fides learns, on June 29 they celebrated the centenary of their foun ...
• 3 July 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The UN decreases aid to Syrian refugees. The Director of Caritas Jordan: the great powers have created the catastrophe, and now they wash their hands Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The UN funds earmarked for Syrian refugees in Jordan are about to be cut, and soon 450 thousand of them will be starving, with devastating consequences for the stability of the Hashemite Kingdom. ...
• 3 July 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola nightmare is back: 3 new cases Nedowein (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia, declared "Ebola-free" on May 9 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has plunged back into the nightmare of a new epidemic. Three new cases were registered in the same village, Nedow ...
• 3 July 2015
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - South Africa concerned about the "explosive" situation in Lesotho Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - Concern in South Africa about the situation described as "explosive" in Lesotho, after the killing, last week, of former Chief of Staff, General Maaparankoe Mahao, who according to family members ...
• 2 July 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Food sovereignty and other initiatives resume power thanks to CELAM Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming visit of the Pope to Cuba and his words for a serious commitment regarding the peripheries of the world, CELAM has proposed again some examples of positive feedback that o ...
• 2 July 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Widespread violence does not spare even three elderly nuns Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Tehuantepec, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Armando Campos Contreras, along with all the clergy expressed an energetic condemnation of the acts of violence committed against pri ...