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• 19 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - The main problems of childhood in Chile: Sexual exploitation, trafficking, drugs, alcohol Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - 47.2% of sexually exploited children in Chile do not go to school. The consumption of drugs and alcohol are other risk factors that aggravate the situation. The alarm was launched by t ...
• 19 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "A warning to Pakistan", reaction to the murder for blasphemy in Afghanistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The episode of the Afghan woman brutally lynched for blasphemy on March 19, 2015 by an angry mob of Muslims in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, is "a warning and a lesson to Pakistan", says to Fide ...
• 19 May 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian politicians confront each other over "Aoun’s proposal" in order to exit the crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), political party led by former General Michel Aoun, met Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai and some leaders of other political Christian on M ...
• 19 May 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Do not allow habit and indifference to take place in the face of the ongoing persecution of Christians worldwide Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first genocide of the twentieth century" according to the expression used by Pope Francis which took place a century ago, in Anatolia, was recalled this morning by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Pr ...
• 18 May 2015
  VATICAN - Archbishop Romero will be the patron of Caritas Internationalis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero (1917 -1980), who will be beatified on May 23 in San Salvador, murdered for standing with the poor in El Salvador, was adopted as a ...
• 18 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - First agreement between former political prisoners and government, Mgr. Goic President of the Commission Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - A hunger strike carried out by 117 former political prisoners lasted a little over a month, divided in groups in different locations around the country, who among other things, call for the inc ...
• 18 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rosary and biblical apostolate in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Family, catechists, teachers, youth, children: all united to pray the Rosary every day in May, the month of Mary: is the experience of the parish of Toba Tek Singh, in the diocese of Faisalab ...
• 18 May 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND - Human trafficking in Southeast Asia does not stop Koh Lipe (Agenzia Fides) – Human trafficking continues to be a very serious problem in Southeast Asian Countries. Criminal networks extend from the west of Burma, crossing the coastal areas of Bangladesh, to the southe ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We have to be humble to have the courage to forgive one another", said the Archbishop of Bangui Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "More than ever Central Africans need to be humble in order to find the power of love", says His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and President of the Central African Episcopa ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than a hundred women victims of rape in the attack in Kikamba Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the region of Shabunda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have provided medical care for 127 women who reported being sexually abused after an attack by do ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Morsi condemned to death. Coptic Catholic Bishop: "the Church never justifies death penalty for anyone" Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The death sentence of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is arousing strong reactions in Egypt and other Countries, starting from Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization, i ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Prayers and mobilization of the population to demand an end of attacks by Ugandan rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Religious confessions of North Kivu have organized moments of prayer to pray for peace in the province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a prey to repeated violence by various armed grou ...
• 18 May 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Building peace remembering martyr Claretian Rhoel Gallardo Basilan (Agenzia Fides) - 15 years after his death, the community of Basilan in the southern Philippines, led by Bishop Martin Jumoad of the Prelature of Basilan, commemorated father Rohel Gallardo, Claretian priest kill ...
• 18 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First Report on the scourge of drugs prepared by UCA Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina today, May 18, presents the first report of the "Barometro of Narcotrafico y Adicciones en Argentina" prepared by researchers of the Catholic University of Argentina ...
• 16 May 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - Two students die during the protests; the Church appeals for non-violence Valparaiso (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation and an appeal to reflect on the seriousness of what happened has been expressed by the Catholic Church following the killing of the two students: Exequiel Borvarán Salina ...