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• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The President of Caritas Jerusalem: Gaza continues to be an open-air prison Gaza (Agenzia Fides): "I was shocked by the level of poverty that I saw in Gaza. The Strip continues to be an open-air prison, closed by the sea, the embargo of Israel and now Egypt". This is how Father Raed Abusahlia, D ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Children poisoned in a school in Bihar: the Church relaunches food safety New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the 22 children who died from food poisoning in a school in the Indian state of Bihar "strongly raises the issue of food safety and food quality and the urgency with which India ha ...
• 17 July 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "Missionary Year": 100 years since the arrival of the first Orionini missionaries in Brazil Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first missionaries of the "Work of Divine Providence" were sent to Brazil by the founder, Don Orione, a century ago: on December 17, 1913. They left from Genoa and landed at the port of Santos ...
• 17 July 2013
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Educational programs for 250,000 blind children around the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The National Organization for blind people (ONCE), thanks to a program of international cooperation, has promoted various educational projects of which in the last 15 years more than 250,000 chil ...
• 16 July 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Prohibit non-Christian faiths? For the Church, it would be absurd Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Parliament of Papua New Guinea has approved a motion that asks to start a nationwide consultation on the issue of religious freedom and to "prohibit the worship of non-Christian faiths" ...
• 16 July 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Disciples in a multicultural world: IV American Missionary Congress Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ in a secular and multicultural world": this is the title of the fourth American Missionary Congress (9th Missionary Congress of Latin American) (CAM 4 - Com ...
• 16 July 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "To love sick brothers and sisters with the love of a mother for her sick child", celebrations in honor of St. Camillus de Lellis Bucchianico (Agenzia Fides) - The 400th Jubilee Year of the death of St. Camillus de Lellis has just been inaugurated. Among the most striking initiatives celebrated on 14 July is that of two daring "pilgrims" who walked ...
• 16 July 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - A day of prayer for peace and social justice Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - As a result of the serious political situation that has paralyzed the population of the Central African Republic since March 24, the Order of Carmel in Bangui has organized a real "crusade of pra ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Greek-Orthodox monastery under attack. The nuns are appealing to President Abbas Bethany (Agenzia Fides) – The nuns of the Greek-Orthodox monastery in Bethany have sent a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to take charge, with appropriate ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Shang Chuan of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Jiang Men for prayer and evangelization Jiang Men (Agenzia Fides) - Pray for the church in China and for the Universal Church so that the mission of evangelization in the world and China take its course and strengthens faith, especially in the Year of Faith: a ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Christian children affected in the bombings in Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The civilian population of Aleppo pay the highest price of the clashes that inflame the city. Over the past three days, more than 150 mortar shells have hit residential areas killing 15 people an ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Orissa: for the Bishop "the government should act" Balasore (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence still strikes Christians in Orissa. Very often those responsible are Hindu fundamentalist groups who do not look kindly upon Christians. As a Church we are insisting with the governme ...
• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 confirmed rev. Fr. Jacques Mahougnon Agossou of the diocesan clergy of Porto Novo a ...
• 15 July 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Bishop and a deputy minister mediators in the dispute between the government and farmers Tibú (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Omar Alberto Sanchez, Bishop of Tibú in Norte de Santander, which borders Venezuela, and the deputy minister of labor, Jose Noe Rios, were charged with preparing an act of agreement in the ...
• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - Bishops’ appeal for the end of the war in Congo: conclusion of the Assembly of SECAM Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Congo launch a strong appeal to African political leaders so that they "put an end to the war that has bloodied the Democratic Republic of Congo" and "not to work for their own i ...