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• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera and rains aggravate the humanitarian situation, thousands of refugees fleeing the war: the testimony of a missionary Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The authorities have announced that 18 people have died from cholera and about 170 people have been admitted to hospital due to the epidemic, and three diagnostic centers have also been reopened t ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We respect the Constitution, no to Kabila’s third term", says civil society in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Respect the Constitution". This is the main request made by civil society in South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) during national talks promoted at a national and local level by P ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Gospel of Barnabas" is a fake Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The fake "Gospel of Barnabas", also passed off by the international media as a document found, is "a book full of also historical and geographical errors, the work of a forger", and has no value a ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX dies in Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX passed away today, Thursday, June 25, at Jeetawi hospital in Beirut, where he had been taken following a cardiac arrest. He was 75 years old. Boutro ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Jujuy: "We need the State’s strong support against drugs" Jujuy (Agenzia Fides) - The problem of drug addiction and drug trafficking in Argentina does not diminish but increases, children and young people today are the most vulnerable groups: this was denounced by the Bishop of ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - "Solidarity generates new hope after the earthquake", says a Jesuit Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "Nepal is shaken and unstable, but citizens have survived and look to the future with hope, after the tragic earthquake", says, in a note sent to Fides, Fr. Louis Prakash, SJ, Director of prog ...
• 24 June 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American Religious give their full support and unreserved commitment for Peace in Colombia Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the CLAR Congress, Confederation of religious men and women of Latin America and the Caribbean, held these days in Bogota (see Fides 06/09/2015), a statement was issued in which the ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - The peace agreement signed in a climate of emotion and conviviality Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The signing ceremony of the peace agreement took place in a very convivial climate" says Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Agenzia Fides, who was prese ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have bee ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to the president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Maryam Kanwer, president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance", who works in the building of peace, conflict resolution and social welfare, is under threat. This is denounced by the "Asian Human Ri ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist attacks in Hassaké. Archbishop Hindo: "they are a sign of weakness and desperation" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday evening, June 23 the city of Hassaké in the northeast of Syria was hit by a series of attacks carried out by militant jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), causing deaths and injurie ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite the latest attacks, we hope that Boko Haram will be soon defeated" says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have concrete hope that Boko Haram will be defeated soon. We are praying that Boko Haram will soon become a thing that belongs to the past", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Do ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report of CIMI: suicide and infant mortality are decimating the indigenous population Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There was a serious increase of violence and violations committed against indigenous peoples in Brazil in 2014, in particular we are talking about cases of murder, suicide, people who died due ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A new United Nations Office for Human Rights focused on North Korea, opens in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focusing on the human rights situation in North Korea: is the aim of the new United Nations Office for Human Rights, which opened in Seoul. In accordance with one of the recommendations of the g ...
• 23 June 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appeal of the UNHCR to the Dominican government: the consequences of expulsion could be devastating New York (Agenzia Fides) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the government of the Dominican Republic not to deport tens of thousands of people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of t ...