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• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - 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 31 October 2012 appointed rev. Don Samuel Augusto Alvarez, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Pa ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha Masih's case reaches the Supreme Court Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Rimsha Masih’s ordeal has not finished yet, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, mentally disabled, arrested and then acquitted by the High Court in Islamabad (see Fides 20/11/2012). The l ...
• 15 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT- Children working in limestone caves Al-Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The region of al-Minya lies along the shores of the East and West Nile in Egypt. This is a region where there is no work and most of the population lives in poverty. Almost everyone, including ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops for the presidential elections, "the Christian should not adhere to ideological systems that oppose to the faith he professes" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In the presidential elections of 17 February, the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador has issued a document, divided into three parts, entitled "Elections, a space for democracy", of which a copy was ...
• 15 January 2013
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Worrying increase in malnutrition among refugees in Mali Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - In Mbera refugee camp in eastern Mauritania, there are 55,000 refugees from Mali, among these 1 in 5 children are malnourished and 4.6% suffer from severe malnutrition. According to the lates ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal’s message for the parliamentary elections in Jordan: citizens go to vote Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Fouad Twal, has sent a message to the "dear children" of Jordan in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for January 23. In the message, ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop the killing of innocent people": Bishop Vera Lopez’s appeal after the death of a student Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Raúl Vera López, denounced that, because of the number of deaths due to violence, a real scandal of the country, it is necessary that s ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church to the Head of the police: "Sex education is important" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Sex education for children and young Indians? In the lively debate that is taking place in the country - following numerous cases of group rapes that have attracted national and international att ...
• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Signs of hope after the tragic earthquake in Haiti Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the terrible earthquake that devastated the island of Haiti, in spite of the great difficulty the Caribbean nation is still facing, the stories of some of its inhabitants are mar ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in Makurdi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 September 2012 appointed Rev. Godwin Atede of the clergy of the diocese of Idah as Rector of t ...
• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 23 November 2012 confirmed rev.Stane Kerin, of the archdiocese of Ljubljana as National Director ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese scholars is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The 50th anniversary of Vatican II was the central theme of the Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars 2012 organized by the "Beijing Institute for the Study of Christian Cul ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops against rape: "The dignity of each person is sacred: the challenge is education" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - As another episode of gang rape shakes the nation – the victim, a 29 year-old a woman in Punjab, raped by six men in Amristar – the Bishops of India reaffirm "the sanctity of life and the ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The local population is comforted by the French military intervention; the Church in aid of the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Malian population is greatly comforted by the French military intervention. After jihadist groups had taken the city of Konna on January 10, Malians had in fact held their breath, fearing th ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Seats "reserved" for the Copts in the next election? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – In the next parliamentary elections a Party of Coptic inspiration could be part of the list, with the declared function to represent the demands of the sectors of society - women, urban youth gr ...