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• 20 June 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To evangelize among violence, the atheist ideology and consumerist culture: witness of the Apostolic Vicar of San Vicente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Every community member should become a missionary, evangelist, the laity are having to become pastoral operators, only this will give us strength and courage to continue this mission,": says His E ...
• 20 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Premier disqualified, there is a risk of instability: the Church supports democracy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gilani from his office yesterday, due to the effect of the sentence imposed on him for contempt on April 26. The Supreme C ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/TOGO - Protect children with disabilities from cultural traditions that marginalize them Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - Fear, shame and deep-rooted cultural traditions, continue to marginalize disabled children in Togo, as in much of the continent, who are often ridiculed, locked up, hidden and neglected, cutting t ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram has declared war on Christians, but does not represent the entire Nigerian Islam," says Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is fair to say that Boko Haram is against Christians and the Christian religion, but let's be careful not to confuse this sect with the entire Muslim population of Nigeria, with which we try t ...
• 20 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The revolution is not and should not be an "Islamic Jihad" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The Syrian revolution is a struggle for the ideals of democracy, freedom, dignity, human rights. It is not and must not become an 'Islamic jihad', which is why Christians have nothing to fear ...
• 20 June 2012
  VATICAN - "The new evangelization is the call of the Church to its original missionary goal": the instrumentum laboris of the Synod Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "New methods and new forms of expression are needed to convey to the people of today the perennial truth of Jesus Christ, forever new and the source of all newness... This renewed dynamism ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Emergency food crisis: 800 000 people are undernourished, millions of children at risk Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to Niger, Mauritania and Mali, even Senegal, with its 12.5 million inhabitants, at least 800 000 people are seriously affected by the food crisis. Throughout the country, malnutrition ...
• 20 June 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Tension for new powers adopted by the military Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Egypt is tense, where the wait for the official announcement of the presidential ballot results is intertwined with the news concerning former President Hosni Mubarak’s health ...
• 20 June 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In Ecuador, the largest number of refugees of America Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2011 was a "record year" for displacement, considering the figures since 2000: says a report published by the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) of which a copy was sent to Fides. Regarding the si ...
• 19 June 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni for the 150th anniversary of the Missionaries of Scheut: "That seed today is a plant that has spread its branches in 23 countries across 4 continents" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Just 150 years ago, a group of Belgian priests volunteered to Propaganda Fide to work in missions. With them Theophile Verbist founded in Scheut, Brussels, Your Congregation and went to th ...
• 19 June 2012
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Human rights abuses continue despite the appeals of leaders Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Rigged elections, limited freedom of speech and press, media censorship or intimidation and attempts to control the activities of civil society and NGOs continue to violate human rights in many c ...
• 19 June 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "In 100 days' respite, over 800 lives have been saved": the results of the agreement signed between criminal gangs on the initiative of the Church San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The pact between criminal gangs, the "Mara Salvatrucha" (MS-13) and the "Mara 18" (M-18), has decreased daily murders from 14 to 5, according to data provided by the Castrencian Vicar Monsi ...
• 19 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Forced conversions "against human dignity": Christians support the new law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Conversions and forced marriages are "contrary to human dignity, human rights, fundamental freedoms of every individual, inscribed by God in every human being." For this reason "as Christians, we ...
• 19 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "In Kaduna calm has returned, and security forces are doing their best," the Archbishop told Fides Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is quite calm. The police have limited the curfew, which now ranges from 6 pm to 6 am. The population has been able to resume its activities in the hours when the curfew is not in f ...
• 19 June 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Tropical Storm Talim causes severe flooding in the coastal provinces of the country Fuzhou/Haikou (Agenzia Fides) - The province of northeastern China's Harbin is facing serious flooding due to the tropical storm Talim that brought heavy rains. This is the fifth storm of the year and is the eastern and ...