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• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The country is sick of violence": proposal of Bishops to respond to this reality Lomas Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Lomas de Zamora (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J., rejected the criticisms expressed by members of the government to the document entitled "Blessed are the ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 68 Muslim lawyers denounced for blasphemy: for the Church "it is a patent abuse" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The police in the district of Jhang, the province of Punjab, has opened a blasphemy case against 68 Muslim lawyers, mostly Shiites, who on 7 May had staged a protest against a police officer. A ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Grand Mufti Qabbani proposes a new "pact" between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic and the highest authority of Sunni Islam in the Country of the cedars, elaborated a Christian-Muslim pact as a contributi ...
• 14 May 2014
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - The "Small Missionary Clubs" where children learn to help their needy peers Prague (Agenzia Fides) - The children of Pontifical Holy Childhood in the Czech Republic have just published a collection of pictures and drawings in which their favorite missionary quotes are shown. The book, titled How ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal of the World Council of Churches: "With the agreement signed, the real work starts now" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains volatile until the truce actually takes effect on the ground" says a note by the World Council of Churches (WCC) sent to Fides Agency, on the peace agreement signed by Presid ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – What is feared is the failure of peace talks, today new student demonstration Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue between the Venezuelan government and the opposition, which began in April in response to student protests and the political and socio-economic crisis prevailing in the country, is on t ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Knesset discusses the Armenian Genocide Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli parliament discussed the issue of the Armenian Genocide during the plenary session on Tuesday, May 13. "This discussion" stressed the Chairman of the Israeli parliament, Yuli Edels ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Adoration and prayers in all churches for the kidnapped girls Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - The Church of Nigeria is following with special attention and participation the case of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by a terrorist group in Nigeria. "In the last two Sundays, at the end of eve ...
• 14 May 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - After the bombing of a Catholic hospital, mass displacement in Southern Kordofan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The European Union delegation for Sudan has expressed concern about the recent bombing of the Mother of Mercy Catholic Hospital in Gidel, near Kianda, the Nuba Mountains, condemned by Mgr. Macr ...
• 14 May 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops call for three days of prayer for the Church-Government meeting Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua invite Nicaraguans to pray for the next Church-Government meeting, which will take place on May 21, an opportunity to open a dialogue with President Daniel Ortega Saaved ...
• 13 May 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A priest and a lay extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist have been killed Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest and a layman of the diocese of Bereina were killed on Sunday, May 4, for reasons which are still unclear, while they were walking in a remote area of the diocese. We are t ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops: "It is time to take action to approve the immigration reform" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The group of Catholic bishops who on April 1, celebrated the Mass in the United States-Mexico border for immigrants who died in the desert (see Fides 02/04/2014), will travel to Campidoglio o ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The number of working children, deprived of education and health care, continues to increase Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - About 12% of the population between 5 and 17 years of age is engaged in different types of work, the most common are window cleaners and shoeshiners. According to a recent study carried ou ...
• 13 May 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Hunger, malnutrition and debts for the population of the "dry zone" Bagan (Agenzia Fides) - The people who live in the so called "dry zone" of Myanmar, which covers 13% of the Country, home to a quarter of the 58 million inhabitants, are experiencing shortage of food and are dying from h ...
• 13 May 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Religious leaders create a Guarantee Commission to monitor the next election Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An Integrity Commission and Electoral Mediation (CIME) to ensure peaceful, free and transparent elections, was announced by the religious leaders in Kinshasa at the end of a four-day seminar or ...