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• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Archbishop of Lahore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 14 November 2013, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Francis Shaw, O.F.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Lahore and Apostolic Administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the same arc ...
• 14 November 2013
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Fidei Donum priest kidnapped Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - A French priest, Father Georges Vandenbeusch, 42, was kidnapped in Cameroon, yesterday, 13 November, around 11.30 pm local time, says to to Fides Agency Mgr. Henri Djonyang, Vicar General of the ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas Asia: the victims of Typhoon Haiyan "a message of love and hope" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A "message of love and hope" to the population of the Philippines from Caritas Asia. In a statement released by the organization and sent to Fides Agency, the 23 Caritas of Asian countries expre ...
• 13 November 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - " The rebuilding begins to bear fruit", the U.S. Bishops’ report on the aid to the Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Bishops attended the screening of a video report on the work of reconstruction carried out in Haiti during the Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of the United States of Ame ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist protest against the visit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims go away!": With this slogan hundreds of Burmese citizens of Buddhist religion in Myanmar today welcomed the arrival of a delegation from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ...
• 13 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwandan military deployed 3 km from Goma, civil society denounces Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Rwandan military have entered Congolese territory where they are lined up 3 km from Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This was revealed in a note sent to F ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October, His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu Guandong, Bishop Emeritus of the Apostolic Prefecture of Yixian (Yihsien), in Hebei Province (Mainland China) returned to the Father's house, at the age of 94 ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Ad interim" government of the Syrian opposition: Christians, excluded, protest Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian members of the Syrian National Coalition - the Syrian opposition groups recognized last year as the sole legitimate representative of th ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Incalculable material damage, more than 4 million people devastated by Hayan: NGOs mobilize Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many humanitarian organizations that are mobilizing to help the people of the Philippines, also Manos Unidas, engaged in the Asian country for over 25 years, together with the organizat ...
• 13 November 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian deputies open an investigation into the management of oil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of the Federation of Nigeria has begun an investigation regarding the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state agency that handles foreign sales of Ni ...
• 13 November 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Year of Faith: "We must all work for conversion" Granada (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to re-awaken as a Catholic Church and continue to work in the coming years to become a community that transforms reality, we must stop evil, injustice and sin, in order to reign in the ...
• 12 November 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Catholic Church invited to the consultations on the constitutional reform Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) will participate in the consultations on the constitutional reform, announced yesterday, 11 November, by the Secretary General of CEN, Auxiliary Bisho ...
• 12 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The family at the center of the Church's pastoral plan for the next five years Madang (Agenzia Fides) - Listening to the needs and perspectives that will be raised at the next Synod of Bishops on the Family, proclaimed by Pope Francis, the Church in Papua New Guinea intends to put the family at the ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Double the mortality rate of people with disabilities compared to the rest of the population affected by the typhoon Iloilo City (Agenzia Fides) - An alarming fact is added to the very serious situation that the Philippine population is experiencing due to the violent typhoon Hayan. Unfortunately people with disabilities are those most ...
• 12 November 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholics and Anglicans together for peace in the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The joint campaign of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC, which brings together the Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda) an ...