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• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Chaotic situation, who can must escape" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are soldiers and armed men everywhere and several civilians are trying to escape elsewhere," says to Fides Agency Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central A ...
• 15 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - India, the world's largest importer of weapons, must learn from Pacem in Terris New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "India, the biggest importer of weapons in the world, and one of the 24 countries that abstained in the UN vote in favor of the Treaty on the limitation of the arms trade needs to learn the ri ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Government representatives contested by the Copts during a meeting of "reconciliation" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A traditional meeting of "reconciliation" convened by the regime in past days caused the death of at least 8 people – registered a lively protest to government representatives by the faithful C ...
• 13 April 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diocese threatened by armed group Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement released by the Diocese of Tumaco (Colombia) says that the Commission for the Social Pastoral of the Diocese was declared "objective and permanent military enemy" by a movement tha ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission for National Harmony: death penalty for the false accusations of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - False accusations of blasphemy should be punished with death penalty: is the conclusion reached by the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony. As reported to Fides Agency, in a meeting ...
• 13 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA- Still chaos but the new authorities carry out some steps to stabilize the situation Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic is still living in instability and insecurity after the flight of President Bozizé following the entry of the rebels of the coalition Seleka in the capital Bangui, o ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - To die or leave? The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus talks about the unanswered dilemma of Syrian Christians Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Syria "must choose between two bitter chalices: to die or leave." A dilemma that involves the whole ecclesial reality in this battered Country, and is told by the Maronite archbis ...
• 13 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Nsukka and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Nsukka (Nigeria), by His Exc. Mgr. Francis Emmanuel Ogbonna Okobo, in accordance with can. 401 § ...
• 12 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - File - The Church, a precious resource for society (Rabaul) - The Catholic Church is a valuable resource for the society of Papa New Guinea. Over the past 165 years it has contributed to the development of Papua New Guinea by providing basic services to the population in ...
• 12 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops to the Prime Minister: fight against corruption and more collaboration between Church and state Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the state are called to work together for the common good: this is the approach of the Bishops of Papua New Guinea who yesterday, during their Plenary Assembly being held in Madang ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I found signs of hope," said Bishop Bertin who has just returned from Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I found concrete signs of hope even if the new state institutions are not yet in full control of the situation," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apos ...
• 12 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The percentage of Christians in the Palestinian territories has halved over the last 13 years Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The percentage of Christians in the population of the Palestinian territories has halved since the year two thousand, from 2% to 1% over the last 13 years. And in Jerusalem, where in 1948, 27, ...
• 12 April 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops of Southern Africa demand free and transparent elections Harare (Agenzia Fides) -To ensure transparent elections that take place in a peaceful atmosphere away from violence. This is the request made by a delegation of IMBISA (Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Afric ...
• 11 April 2013
  ASIA/VIET NAM - Christian leader who died in prison: a victim of beatings, the faithful do not believe in suicide Dak Nong (Agenzia Fides) – There are suspicions concerning the death of the Christian leader of the Vietnamese Evangelical Church Hoang Van Ngai (also known as Vam Ngaij Vaj), who died on March 17 while he was in polic ...
• 11 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros II’s secretary: five guidelines to do away with religious conflicts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of palliatives. There is need for concrete measures." This is how Father Makari Habibi, personal secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, ruled in favor of the provisi ...