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• 15 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO R.D. - Appointment of the Bishop of Uvira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Francis, on 15 October 2013, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Sébastien Muyengo Mulombe, until now tit. Bishop of Strathearn and Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa as Bishop of the Diocese of ...
• 15 October 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - A 12-meter missionary cross to conclude the "Youth Mission" Auco (Agenzia Fides) - A 12-meter high cross will be placed in front of the Shrine of St. Teresa of the Andes, in the city of Auco (Chile), about 70 kilometers north of Santiago, and will be composed of many "small cross ...
• 15 October 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Training courses for Sudanese teachers in refugee camps in Chad Abeche (Agenzia Fides) - In Chad, in the city of Abeche, 70 primary school teachers in Sudanese refugee camps, in the eastern part of the Country, have attended a training course for the teaching of Arabic and mathematic ...
• 14 October 2013
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Syrian Refugees in the Benedictine abbey of Weingarten Weingarten (Agenzia Fides) - The Benedictine Abbey of Weingarten, in Baden-Wuerttemberg (southwest Germany), may soon welcome Syrian refugees: As reported to Fides Agency, the proposal was launched by Mgr. Gebhard Fürst ...
• 14 October 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR – Legalization of abortion, the President threatens to resign: the Church praises him Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Arregui, Archbishop of Guayaquil and President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference (CEE), has defined the position of the country's president, Rafael Correa, as "com ...
• 14 October 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Use of the word "Allah": appeal verdict unfavorable to Christians . "It violates religious freedom" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Court of Appeal in Kuala Lumpur, with a judgment delivered this morning, has prohibited the use of the term "Allah" to indicate "God" in the publications of the Catholic weekly "Herald" ...
• 14 October 2013
  AFRICA - The Bishops of North Africa: "Our Countries have also become places of immigration" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis’ appeal to go to the "suburbs" urges us to live the call of the Incarnation in humility, service and with hope" say the members of the Conférence des Evêques de la Région Nord de ...
• 14 October 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur: "On the word Allah, a politicized case: the term will continue to be used in liturgies" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The judgment of the Court of Appeal on the use of the term Allah in Christian publications "was predictable: we expected this outcome: the case has been far too politicized" says to Fides A ...
• 14 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian Migrants' Day, October - month of the Lord of Miracles Lima ( Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of Faith and on the occasion of the "Mes Morado" (Purple Month because people carry this color as a sign of penance), the month dedicated to the Lord of Miracles, the "Peruvian migrant ...
• 14 October 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Education cannot wait": due to conflicts about 29 million children lack education New York City (Agenzia Fides) - "Education cannot wait", has just concluded, an event organized for the second consecutive year during the General Assembly of the United Nations. According to figures released by the orga ...
• 14 October 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako establishes the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Laity have the management of financial affairs Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako established the Pastoral Council for the Chaldean diocese in Baghdad, involving together with the auxiliary bishop Shlemon Warduni ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - New violence and arbitrary arrests against Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - New violence against Christian communities in different places in India: As reported to Fides by the "All India Christian Council" (AICC) – a coalition that unites Christians of different de ...
• 11 October 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence against civilians in the territory of Masisi Masisi (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, September 27 armed groups clashed in the area of Osso - Banyungu, near Masisi, province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There were also attacks against civilians in ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Confidence in the future of the country, the Bishops call for a free and responsible election San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) – Just over a month since the presidential election, the Episcopal Conference of Honduras has asked the Honduran people to go to the polls "without pressure or threats, without selling th ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Children in Christ, firm in Faith", 20,000 letters to the Pope for the National Day of Missionary Childhood Juticalpa (Agenzia Fides) - On October 20, the National Day of Missionary Childhood will conclude. Among the initiatives of the Diocese of Juticalpa, the department of Olancho, the largest in Honduras, the authorities h ...