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16 June 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR-A priest in the North: "due to the civil war more than 2,000 Kachin refugees, many in the churches"
Myitkyina (Fides Service) - A furious civil war is underway in northern Myanmar. "The clashes between the national army and the militia of the ethnic Kachin are creating great suffering to the civilian population: there ...
16 June 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN-A missionary from South Kordofan: "I saw an air raid from Khartoum", the local people ask me "where is the international community?"
Juba (Fides Service) - Fighting in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, between the northern and southern army continues. "On the Nuba Mountains, schools are closed and te ...
16 June 2011
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New support program for 5 and a half million orphans in the country
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - Millions of Ethiopians who look after the orphans in a country where, in May, annual inflation exceeded 34%, are forced to sell their belongings or to send the children to beg. Fortunately a ...
15 June 2011
EUROPE/POLAND-Over 2 million children at the Childhood Congress in Czestochowa
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid to be saints": this expression of Blessed John Paul II was the theme of the Second Congress of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese in Czestochowa, which was held on Jun ...
15 June 2011
ASIA/CHINA-A Center of Evangelization in the Cathedral of Beijing to respond to the Year of Evangelization of the Lay
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen and better coordinate the activities of evangelization thus responding to the needs generated by the Year of Evangelization of the Lay promoted by the diocese, the Cathedral of Bei ...
15 June 2011
AMERICA/PERU '-The Church and the natural resources: development, law and quality of life
Chaclacayo (Agenzia Fides) - "The issue of natural resources and the mission of the Church": this is the theme of the international seminar on mining industry (mining and hydrocarbons) and natural resources that takes p ...
15 June 2011
AMERICA/UNITED STATES-General Assembly of Catholic Bishops in the United States
Seattle (Agenzia Fides) - The bishops of the United States of America gather for the Spring General Assembly from 15 to 17 June, in Seattle. Among the measures scheduled on the agenda: discussion and vote on a document ...
15 June 2011
AFRICA/DR CONGO-"The LRA could offer its cooperation to Al Qaida": the alarm of the Archbishop of Kisangani
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "If you do not put an end to the regionalization of the crisis, the LRA will geographically expand its danger and may even attack the interests of the nations beyond the borders of Africa, offe ...
15 June 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-The Vatican Observer at the United Nations: the case of Farah-only a UN intervention
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Farah Hatim, the Christian girl kidnapped and forced into marriage and conversion to Islam "is an abuse of freedom of conscience and religion", so "an intervention of UN High Commissi ...
15 June 2011
AFRICA-File: the regional threat of the LRA
Rome (Fides Service) - The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was born in 1987 in northern Uganda, on the basis of a previous insurrectionary movement. In the early 90s it begins to install some bases in the south-east of Suda ...
15 June 2011
AFRICA-File: the Regional and Interfaith Network of Religious Leaders for Peace (RINRLP)
Rome (Fides Service) - The Regional and Interfaith Network of Religious Leaders for Peace (RINRLP) was born at the end of the international Conference of religious leaders of the 4 countries affected by the LRA (Lord's R ...
15 June 2011
EUROPE/ITALY-Prayer vigil for victims of the trips to Europe: in 2011 more than 1820
Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1990 at least 17,597 people have died on the journey along the borders of Europe. The change that is affecting the geopolitical organization which is affecting Countries of North Africa and i ...
15 June 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA-The priest, author of "communion" in a pluralistic nation
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - The priest is a man called to build "community" at all levels: in the community, in relationships with other religions, in civil society in a pluralistic nation like Indonesia. This is what was ...
15 June 2011
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-Beggars in Addis Ababa and the Day of the African Child
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The African Union has promoted in the month of June, the Day of the African Child. The Salesian missionaries, have been present in the continent for over 100 years, have developed many proje ...
15 June 2011
AMERICA/HAITI - Mobile units to fight the cholera outbreak
Lodi (Fides Service) - An emergency operation for the creation of mobile units against cholera in Haiti has recently been approved. OCHA, the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, has ap ...
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