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• 11 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "A missionary Church always communicates the truth": 95th Assembly of Bishops Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The welfare state in the nation, the permanent mission, social media: are, among other themes, at the centre of the 95th Ordinary Meeting of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia, which opened ...
• 11 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A casino in front of the Church: the Bishop opposes Cancún (Agenzia Fides) - A casino, which encourages young people to gambling and attracts criminal organizations, was opened in front of a church: as reported to Fides, to block it from functioning and to ask for it to ...
• 11 April 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops bear witness to the faith on social networks Madang (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands proclaim and bear witness to the faith on social networks, in response to the message for the World Day of Social Communications 2013, which de ...
• 10 April 2013
  VATICAN - The new challenges of evangelization in Africa at hte centre of the XX SMA Assembly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Society has left a profound impression, of which today we can see the fruits that the Holy Spirit has created for the generous contribution of Saint confreres," said Cardinal Fernando ...
• 10 April 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - OAS and government together in the peace process, the truce between the gangs is a first step Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement and the creation of a mission of security assistance to support the process of socia ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chaldean Bishop Audo: Aleppo is starving Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "One lives day by day. I have the impression that people are more and more exhausted. They have all become poor and everyone is always looking for something to eat for himself and his family. In ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – Church insulted and defamed in a newspaper of Hindu fundamentalists Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is hell and nuns live a life of hell, abused and battered": are among the statements published yesterday by the newspaper "Charaiveti" (which in Hindi means "Go ahead") published in t ...
• 10 April 2013
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - The lack of clean water threatens the safety of women Honiara (Agenzia Fides) – In the Solomon Islands, there is one of the highest rates of urbanization in the region and infrastructure for basic services are not sufficient to cope with the influx of people moving from t ...
• 10 April 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigrants, Youth and reconstruction of Haiti, the aid priorities of the U.S. bishops Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has allocated $ 3.1 million to fund about 100 pastoral projects in 19 countries in ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - "Peaceful relations between North Korea and neighboring countries": the hope of the Church Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is the key word to be pursued by all means, and actions at local and regional level, but also internationally. The support expressed by Pope Francis in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki ...
• 10 April 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Refugees, food shortages and mine clearance: new emergencies in the Country Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in Bamako and in most of the Country have improved, but we still have the problem of refugees and displaced persons to be accommodated in their places of origin," says to ...
• 10 April 2013
  VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Filoni at the Feast of the Pontifical Urban University: to proclaim Christ in the suburbs of humanity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Urban University "has not failed to reflect" on the impressing ecclesial events in recent months, living with intense emotion and spiritual discernment both the renunciation ...
• 9 April 2013
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - In the country there are more than 8 million students, 39% of whom are girls Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the economic problems and obstacles caused by the folk traditions, Afghan girls are returning to school in their villages to guarantee themselves a future. One of these structures is in Qa ...
• 9 April 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Mgr.Thomas Qian Yurong. A man of simple faith Xuzhou (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 March Thomas Qian Yurong died. He was 99 years old. He was born in 1914 in the County of Tongshan from a family of ancient Catholic tradition. During the Sino-Japanese War he had saved a ba ...
• 9 April 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - American Meeting on human trafficking, the largest slavery in this century Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The fifth conference of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean (WUCWO) dedicated to the topic of human trafficking is being held in Mexico City. ...