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• 30 January 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 500,000 displaced people from 66 villages destroyed by the rebels in Katanga Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 500,000 people forced to flee from their villages because of the violence carried out by the Bakata Katanga militia in the province of Katanga, in the south of the Democrati ...
• 30 January 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church: population growth is not a nightmare Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in population in Papua New Guinea is not a nightmare, but it can result in an encouraging prospect for growth and social and economic progress of the country. This was stated i ...
• 29 January 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Social networks, a reality in the Church Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - More than 200 priests, seminarians, religious and lay people gathered at the Palafox Seminary, where the fifth Diocesan Synod of the Archdiocese of Puebla took place and has just ended. It was an ...
• 29 January 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christians took to the streets for religious freedom: 18 Buddhists on trial for attacks against churches Colomba (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan Christians, of all denominations, marched through the streets of the capital Colombo to protest against the attacks carried out lately by Buddhist extremists and for the lack of p ...
• 29 January 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram: "military response alone does not solve anything", says Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The government has spent billions to purchase all kinds of gadgets. No matter the amount of money spent it cannot solve the problem of security", said His Eminence Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiye ...
• 29 January 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Peace and reconciliation: the expectations of the Afghan civil society Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The Afghan civil society firmly believes that the "military solution" is ineffective and that it is essential to pursue the path of political dialogue, implementing a plan of "national reconciliat ...
• 29 January 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the Heads of Catholic Churches pay tribute to General al-Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After messages of support from the Coptic Orthodox Church to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, similar gestures of appreciation towards the strong man of the Egyptian army - and likely future candidat ...
• 29 January 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - President Obama: "it is urgent to reform the immigration system" Washington (Agenzia Fides - President Obama declared independence from Congress on Tuesday as he vowed to tackle economic disparity with a series of limited initiatives on jobs, wages and retirement that he will enact w ...
• 29 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "No to laws that discriminate homosexuals": editorial of the Catholic Southern Cross Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Church should sound the alarm at the advance throughout Africa of "draconian legislation" aimed at criminalising homosexuals" approved by some African Countries says an editorial of th ...
• 28 January 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - 25 years of priesthood for some of the first priests ordained after the Cultural Revolution Zhi Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4000 faithful of Shaan Xi Province in mainland China took part in the solemn celebration for the 25th anniversary of priesthood of 8 priests of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi. The celebratio ...
• 28 January 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Dispute between Peru and Chile: an example of how to resolve differences in a peaceful manner Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peru and Chile are an example to the world of how to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner, resorting to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to resolve the dispute over maritim ...
• 28 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The facilities built in eight years have been destroyed in a month: denounces the Apostolic Administrator of Malakal Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Malakal (Upper Nile in the capital of South Sudan) has been completely destroyed because of the fighting between the two rival factions of the SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movemen ...
• 28 January 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National Emergency: 6000 homeless families due to rains and floods Beni (Agenzia Fides ) - On January 27, the government approved a decree declaring "national emergency" over the entire national territory, because of the floods and disasters caused by intense natural phenomena that occ ...
• 28 January 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Masses and vigils for father Dall'Oglio six months after his abduction Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 July 2013, the Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio was kidnapped in Raqqa, Syria's largest city controlled by Islamist militias of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Since then, we h ...
• 28 January 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Does Papua New Guinea want notoriety thanks to the death penalty? Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - 13 men convicted of crimes of piracy and murder a few years ago will most likely be executed. The 13 are on death row and, according to the media, "have very few days left". "It is unlikely ...