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• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - A bridge of solidarity between the Christian and Muslim communities Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian mission of the Camillian Task Force (CTF) in Wajir, in north western Kenya has just concluded. CTF Kenya, the humanitarian agency of the Order of the Servants of the Sick (MI) l ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: sectarian militias will lead the country to ruin Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Any non-state army should be considered "illegitimate" and will result in the return of the country to the "law of the jungle and an increase in crime, a phenomenon that unfortunately we are alr ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to life imprisonment for a blasphemous SMS Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan: Sajjad Masih Gill, a 28-year-old Christian, residing in the district of Pakpatan, in the province of Punjab, was sentenced ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Urbanization, Immigration and Pastoral Care: Seminar of the local Church to respond to the social evolution Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Urbanization and internal immigration have become the most pressing challenges for the pastoral care of the Catholic Church in mainland China. With this awareness and sensitivity, the local chur ...
• 13 July 2013
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Petition for the release of a Christian Pastor jailed for false accusations Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate and unconditional release of Christian Protestant Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, imprisoned in Kazakhstan two months ago on the basis of invented accusations: This is what the internat ...
• 13 July 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "National Dialogue": Bishops' appeal at the conclusion of the 100th Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a national context marked by deep divisions, "the Church promotes national dialogue with deep democratic spirit. We are all involved in building the good of the country. And we all have to so ...
• 13 July 2013
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Right to health care in the Constitution has to be included: the Catholic Campaign Accra (Agenzia Fides) – To include the right to health care in the new Constitution: is a national campaign launched officially by the National Catholic Secretariat, the executive body of the Episcopal Conference, on t ...
• 13 July 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - "Pain becomes holiness": the contribution of the sick and the elderly for missions Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "From Faith and silence, pain becomes Holiness": this is the title of the "National Day of the sick and elderly missionary", organized for tomorrow, Sunday, July 14, by the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 13 July 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Conversion of children, religious education, use of the term "Allah": the Christians new challenges Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia are all interested in three issues that currently involve the political and social life, all related to religious freedom: the change of children’s religion; Islami ...
• 12 July 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We have hit rock bottom but we have to try to raise the country together", says Mgr. Emiliani after the murder of the journalist San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a message to journalists not to tell the truth, we need to look into the matter really well, because what happened is extremely painful and shows that in the Country there is a d ...
• 12 July 2013
  AFRICA/BENIN - "The Virgin Mary is the sign of Catholicism in Benin" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Here, thank God, there is a Catholic instinct of openness to the Madonna", says Fr. Juan Diego M. Gay, Franciscan Missionary of the Immaculate in an interview sent to Fides Agency on the initia ...
• 12 July 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Ramadan of justice and reconciliation: message of the pro-dialogue "Silsilah" Center Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Month of Ramadan is "a special time to renew friendship and solidarity between Christians and Muslims": says the Message issued during the month of Ramadan by the Center for inte ...
• 12 July 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Survey: impatience towards Syrian refugees increases Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - 54 per cent of the Lebanese hopes that the borders of their own Country are barred, due to the influx of new refugees from Syria. As much as 90 percent of them prefer to see the freedom of unrest ...
• 12 July 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "Defender who does not defend", scandal in the country, the Church's intervention Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Justice and Peace of the Archdiocese of Panama issued a statement on the charges brought against the "Defensoria del Pueblo" (Institution which should collect the allegati ...
• 11 July 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Coptic commission to outline the criticisms concerning the Provisional Constitution Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has appointed a commission of jurists and Christian politicians to draw up a memorandum of critical observations on the provisional Constitution. This was confirmed to F ...