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• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - New jihadist blackmail for Christians in Mosul: If you do not pay, your houses will be blown up Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Several Christian refugees from the city of Mosul reveal that they have been blackmailed by self-styled militants of the Islamic State, who have threatened to blow up their houses from which they ...
• 19 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Ebola: No new cases registered in the Country Boende (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola epidemic which broke out in early August in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now under control. No new cases have been registered since October 4 in Boende. According to World He ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – From the Bishops a "Magna Charta" to the government: to curb religious intolerance Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The increase in violence and religious intolerance threatens social and civil life in Pakistan" and highlights "the failure of the civil and the judiciary administration". Therefore urgent "m ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Attacks and arrests in a Mennonite Christian Center Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen and police officers raided a Christian Mennonite center in Binh Duong Province. Militants and police raided the center armed with iron bars and hammers during the night of 12 November, terr ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian houses looted also by the Kurdish Peshmerga militias Tel Isqof (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Tel Isqof, a village in the Nineveh plains 15 kilometers from Tilkaif denounce the looting in their homes carried out by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, who have been controlling ...
• 19 November 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops support: "an educational reform for the good of the nation" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "An educational reform for the good of Chile" is the title of the document of the Episcopal Conference of Chile presented yesterday, November 18, sent to Agenzia Fides, which highlights the Chu ...
• 19 November 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – Joint tests of Church and State on the tetanus vaccine considered a means of birth control Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health will conduct joint tests to ascertain whether the controversial tetanus vaccine contains hCG beta unit. According to information sent to Agenzia Fi ...
• 19 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 100,000 Catholics scattered because of Boko Haram, "but we remain to bear witness with our presence", said a priest of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 100,000 Catholics forced to flee from areas controlled by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by Fr. Gideon Obasogie, Head of Social Communicatio ...
• 19 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Every hour two children are victims of sexual abuse Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report published in Bogota on the occasion of World Day for the prevention of child abuse, every hour two are sexually abused. The study, which collects data from the Nation ...
• 19 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - File: the damage inflicted by Boko Haram to the diocese of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - According to a note sent to Agenzia Fides by Fr. Gideon Obasogie, Head of Social Communications of the Diocese of Maiduguri, with the fall of Mubi the estimated figure of destruction caused by Bok ...
• 19 November 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - National Missionary Conference: to rekindle the fire of the mission ad gentes Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The work of the fourth National Missionary Congress, to be held in Sacrofano (Rome) until November 23 on the theme "Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city - where the Gospel becomes encounter" will o ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Representatives of all religions visit the synagogue attacked. Patriarch Twal: No more violence in places of worship Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders and representatives of the religious communities in the Holy Land went to visit the synagogue in Jerusalem, which yesterday was the scene of a bloody terrorist attack, to express s ...
• 18 November 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church condemns the abduction of the General and urges to continue peace talks Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja, has condemned the kidnapping of General Rubén Darío Alzate Mora carried ou ...
• 18 November 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: Bolivia presents a preliminary work plan La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of those responsible for the Missions of Bolivia is in Honduras to attend a meeting on the conclusions of the fourth American Missionary Congress (CAM 4-COMLA 9) that took place last ...
• 18 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Muslim leaders: it is urgent to amend the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to correct and improve the blasphemy law, to prevent the abuse and exploitation: is what leaders and Muslim scholars, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs state, who met recently in Lahore. ...