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• 11 June 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The only goal that matters is the demarcation of our lands", say the indigenous Mato Preto (Agenzia Fides) - "For us indigenous, the only goal that matters is the demarcation of our lands": this is the statement of Sonia Guajajaras, coordinator of the association that brings together the indigenous ...
• 11 June 2014
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - After 500 years, the Diocese of Funchal relaunches the commitment to be "Church in Mission" Funchal (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the commemorations of the 500 years of the Diocese may help to revive the memory of our values, to create new projects and new forms of the Church's commitment to the people and so ...
• 11 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - After Mosul, the jihadists of ISIL aim for Kirkuk. Patriarch Sako: a government of national unity is needed Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - After the capture of Mosul, the advance continues on the Iraqi territory on behalf of rebels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the jihadist faction also active in the Syrian con ...
• 11 June 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "necessary to ensure the rights of all religions throughout the Country" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Religion is a powerful social force, but it can be used for both good and evil. The role that the political system assigns to religion has a lot to do with the impact it can have on the nation, f ...
• 11 June 2014
  AFRICA - Economics and Finance: Is Africa the continent of the future? Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is the largest promising market for investments of European and American multinationals. This was stated in a study conducted by the Wall Street Journal on the Frontier Markets Sentiment In ...
• 11 June 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The plight of child migrants from Central America and forced to repatriate Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Pentagon has announced that it will host 1,800 undocumented children who arrived alone in the United States, mostly from Central America, because their number has exceeded the carrying ca ...
• 11 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kirkuk defended by the Kurdish Peshmerga. In churches one prays: enough violence and pain Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The villages around Kirkuk are already beyond the control of the Iraqi government, while in the urban area people are locked up in the house and the Kurdish Peshmerga militia have come from Kurdi ...
• 10 June 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A motorway to unite the country ... even the Church is moving San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic, His Exc. Mgr. José Dolores Grullón Estrella, the population of the capital has discouraged the President of the Re ...
• 10 June 2014
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Projects in favor of Children: day care, healthy eating, education Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Attention and special measures for Ecuadorian children are some of the objectives of the local government Currently, thanks to a program that is part of the project of Infant Buen Vivir (CIBV) cen ...
• 10 June 2014
  AFRICA/ERITREA - "A desolated and grief-stricken Country, this is why the population flees", denounce the Bishops Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to emigrate if one lives in a decent Country" say the Bishops of Eritrea in a 36 page pastoral letter, written on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of the Coun ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A country under terrorist attack: civil society calls for the commitment of the government Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Terrorism in Pakistan has become a very serious problem in recent years. The death toll of terrorist attacks has risen to about 60,000 over the past 13 years. The government is protecting instit ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Poor or non-existent sanitation facilities in the state schools of Madurai district Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - In Madurai district, the oldest city in Tamil, there are 1,226 public schools. Last year the Ministry of Education identified 210 schools in the district with no bathrooms. According to the Righ ...
• 10 June 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Yes to amnesty for Boko Haram, as long as there is sincere repentance and compensation for the victims" says Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the duty of government to ensure justice and enforce good order normally entails punishing criminals, this may at times not exclude offering pardon and amnesty", said Cardinal John Oloru ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - ISIL rebels seize Mosul. Christians flee to the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), conquered in the late evening of Monday, June 9th the seat of the provincial government in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. The g ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Three years of war and abuse on ethnic minorities: appeal for peace by civil society Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The end of the war with the Kachin minority, stop to violence and abuse of human rights, the start of a serious negotiating table: is what a forum of more than 55 Burmese and international organi ...