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• 6 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Persecution against migrants increases, Mgr. Arizmendi’s complaint San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - "In these last days the persecution of migrants has intensified by organized crime in the area of Palenque" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, Bishop of San C ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: Easter in the tears of our Orthodox brothers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "They sang 'Christ is risen', and while repeating those words of joy and victory, they all had tears in their eyes. All their prayers mingled with their tears." With this image the Chaldean Bisho ...
• 6 May 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "What are the true intentions of Seleka towards us?" Ask the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Never this anymore, no to impunity". Is the title of the letter sent to the new Central African President, Michel-Am Nondroko Djotodia, from the three Bishops of the Metropolitan diocese of Bang ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Islamic radicals ravage Dhaka: Archbishop's appeal for peace Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of violence, "an effort of good will and peace, from all parts of society" is needed: is what the Archbishop of Dhaka, Patrick D'Rozario asks for in a statement released after the unre ...
• 6 May 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Clashes on mining. "One must avoid violence and protect the rights of communities," says a Bishop Jalapa (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to maintain calm and unity before the latest violence was addressed to the people by Mgr. Julio Cabrera Ovalle, Bishop of Jalapa (Guatemala). Mgr. Cabrera also recalls that the authorit ...
• 6 May 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - After the election, a plan of "national reconciliation" Kuala lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - A new process of "national reconciliation" to dampen the ethnic and religious polarization in Malaysian society: is the path outlined by Prime Minister Najib Razak, of the "Barisan National ...
• 3 May 2013
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - 70,000 confirmed cases of dengue Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Paraguay is experiencing the worst dengue epidemic ever recorded in the country. According to the data released by the Directorate of Health Supervision, of the more than 100,000 reported, 70 ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Young Christians organize markets to pay for the trip to the next WYD Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, May 1 at the Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in Baghdad the do-it-yourself market organized by young Iraqi Christians was inaugurated in order to find funds to support the expenses o ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishop of Galle: "Dialogue with Buddhists, no to all forms of violence. The Pope encourages us " Galle (Agenzia Fides) - Heartfelt concern for the violence that occurs in Sri Lanka; renewed appeal of dialogue and willingness to "build social and religious harmony in the country"; "thanks for the Pope’s words to th ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - Kidnapping and torture of migrants released by military raids Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The Yemeni army has launched a crackdown on illegal trafficking in the north of the country where migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and refugees from the Horn of Africa are often held captive an ...
• 3 May 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Also in Honduras the aim is to reach a truce between gangs following the example of El Salvador San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a process of recovery of the respect for life, we are listening to both gangs, but the government has not yet given an answer," said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F Auxili ...
• 3 May 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The looting of the rebels continues, another church desecrated Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Looting has declined a bit and calm is trying to be restored but up to 10 days ago the situation was terrible" report local sources to Fides Agency from the Central African Republic, where gangs ...
• 3 May 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Urgent mediation of the church, the country still in violence for political clashes Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) has expressed its readiness to facilitate dialogue between the government and the opposition to overcome the moment of political polarization in the co ...
• 3 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Kawak: Turkey help us to free the kidnapped bishops Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Turkey is important to resolve the situation of our two brother bishops of Aleppo kidnapped. The entire northern Syria is now somewhat under Turkish control, so it is important to talk with th ...
• 2 May 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Poverty is treated with a supportive economy Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) -"The cause of poverty is not the lack of resources, but the unequal distribution of wealth in the world," said Mgr. Siegfried Noriega Barceló, Bishop of Zacatecas, in Mexico, recalling Pope Fr ...