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• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties: Christians' appeal for democracy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political violence is ravaging Pakistan. As the general elections approach on May 11, terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties continue. "We are very concerned about this wa ...
• 18 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Infant malnutrition remains a serious problem Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In Latin America 12% of children under 5 years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition. Although there has been a decline, from 22% in 1990, the phenomenon is still painful. According to a docum ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian youth killed by a Muslim after a fight: the police is covering the murderer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A fight that degenerates on the difference of religion, then the homocide with a gun in his face. This is how Allah Ditta died, a twenty-year-old Christian, domestic worker in a small village i ...
• 18 April 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: dialogue between religions in Asia "for the common good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the "obvious areas of criticality of the Asian context", marked by situations of "injustice, discrimination, violence, abuse of the creation," "the active presence of different religious ...
• 18 April 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National dialogue mediated by the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches begins Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, April 18, at the headquarters of the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches (FFKM) of Antananarivo talks of national reconciliation begin, to try to get Madagascar out of the insti ...
• 18 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - " Pastoral ministry should always be missionary," Pope Francis’ message to his brother Argentinian bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is key to ministry. We have to go out into the deep outskirsts of existence". This is what Pope Francis said in his letter to the Bishops of Argentina who are gathered in their Ple ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The phenomenon of the 'talibé' continues to worsen: 20,000 every day in Dakar alone Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children are forced to beg on the streets of Dakar just to have a hope of survival. These are known as 'talibé', boys and girls who live on the streets of Senegal and in other parts ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Torture, rape and disappearances for a total of 48,300 missing persons Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest data released by the National Commission of Human Rights, in Mexico, in the period from 2005 to 2012, 48,300 people disappeared, there were also a total of 48,750 vio ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church in the TIPNIS, "a missionary presence committed to human promotion" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary presence of the Church, in the course of several decades, has contributed to the social, cultural and religious configuration of these communities, which today manifest their ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Earthquake in the Southeast: the Church expresses solidarity, Caritas ready for intervention Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our solidarity and closeness to the affected families. As Catholic Church we are close to those who suffer," says to Fides Msg. Thomas Meram, Bishop of the Chaldean community of Urmia ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Provincial elections: 3 seats out of 447 reserved for Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the upcoming provincial elections, scheduled for April 20, the seats up for grabs in the different provinces are 447, and only nine of them are reserved to all the ethnic and religious minori ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Amnesty can be granted to Boko Haram only if they repent and reimburse the victims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "To continue on the path of simple repression alone does not solve the problem of Boko Haram. On the contrary it worsens things. So we have to at least consider the possibility of another way of d ...
• 17 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops to the government: "More consultations on reforms, or democracy weakens " Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Argentina ask the government for more time, more consultations, a more in-depth analysis and debate on draft laws crucial to the institutions in the country: is what was said ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In Kashmir false accusations against Christians for "conversions of children" Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, rejected as "false and misleading", a complaint by some mullahs (Islamic leaders) who accused the Christians of "conversion of children." As sourc ...
• 17 April 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Congo Caritas in charge of distributing the funds of the national collection for the east Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - It will be Caritas Congo to distribute the funds raised by the campaign of national solidarity for the population in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, launched on April 13 by the government ...