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• 8 January 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - An Interfaith Council established by the Commune of Zamboanga City Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - The City Council of Zamboanga City, a city on the island of Mindanao, has approved an ordinance that establishes a special "Interfaith Council of the city". The ordinance creates the new ...
• 8 January 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops Plenary being held, while the people "live in fear and social crisis" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Plenary Assembly of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) for its 101st meeting is being held. The meeting will be held from Tuesday 7th to Sunday January 12. According to the note sent ...
• 8 January 2014
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - A group of religious women involved in the protection of young orphans Mixco (Agenzia Fides) - Every day, a group of 180 children are assisted, helped and protected in the Hogar Nuestra Señora Consoladora, founded 33 years ago to protect orphans. The structure is located in the area of Mix ...
• 8 January 2014
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The new Bishop of El General calls on Costa Ricans to vote on February 2 San Isidro (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop-elect of the Diocese of San Isidro de El General (Costa Rica), Mgr. Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv, was presented by the Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of San Jose de ...
• 8 January 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Archbishop of Dhaka: "Messengers of hope among violence and social confusion" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The small minority of Bengali Christians "brings a message of hope among violence and confusion": is what the Archbishop of Dhaka, Msg. Patrick D' Rozario says in an interview with Fides Agency, d ...
• 8 January 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: may Geneva 2 not turn Syria into an Islamist State Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Syria, "hope that the Geneva 2 Conference opens prospects for democracy, freedom and equality for Syria". This is the reason why I am opposed to any Islamist drift that claims ...
• 8 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We need to get out of the logic of religious conflict, we are in front of criminal acts", said the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian and Muslim communities "are held hostage by the criminal logic" of groups that are confronting each other in the Central African Republic, said Mgr. Nestor Désiré Nongo Aziagbia, ...
• 8 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Catholic priests and Protestant pastors in the forefront to save lives: a testimony to Fides Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing political conflict in South Sudan between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, has now put the two main tribes in the country in contrast: Dinka and Nuer. But a ...
• 7 January 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishop of Mannar calls for an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - "We urgently need an international investigation to ascertain the truth about alleged war crimes, given that most of the Tamils in the north and east of the country no longer have confidence in a ...
• 7 January 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE - "One should listen to the Mapuche people in order to resolve the conflict in Araucanía" asks the Bishop of Temuco Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The first thing to be done urgently in order to finally resolve the conflict in Araucanía is to listen to the Mapuche people: pointed out the Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Héct ...
• 7 January 2014
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Christians were fined for possession of "extremist books" Astana (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Astana has fined two Protestant Christians for possession of Christian publications, defined as "extremist material". As reported in a note sent to Fides by the organization "Forum 1 ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We are tired of war, we need peace"; Christian leaders’ appeal Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn the senseless killing of civilians and we call on President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice President Riek Machar to stop the fighting and negotiate peacefully instead of resorting ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Much is being done to fight malnutrition and give health care assistance to babies of HIV women and AIDS patients Marrere (Agenzia Fides) - The General Hospital of Marrere assists a population of approximately 300 thousand inhabitants, especially people living in the slums of the big city of Nampula, 14 km away from the hospital. Du ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Food, clothing, shelter, water: emergency for Sudanese refugees Kakuma (Agenzia Fides) - Until January 3, 2273 Sudanese refugees arrived in the Kakuma camp, at the Holy Cross parish in Kenya, where there are over 130 thousand people of different African nationalities. A note by ANS, ...
• 7 January 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Battle between Islamist factions in Raqqa Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - The clash between the different Islamist factions that oppose the Assad regime has become open war in Raqqa, the city where the Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio was abducted five months ago. In rec ...