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• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastor forced to lock down a parish for the violence, and the faithful return to Mass Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - All around there is a-five-meter high wall of reinforced concrete, the walls are evidence of bombings and car bombings. Metal blocks were also placed on the windows to prevent stray bullets fr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "After the Tunisian revolution irreversible changes in the Arab world," said Mgr. Lahham Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "In these two years since the so-called 'Jasmine Revolution', two irreversible developments have taken place in Tunisia, and more generally in the Arab world," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. M ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Campaign against illiteracy: The Church supports the initiative in favor of 850 thousand people Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial dedicated to the National Campaign for Literacy published by "Camino", the National Catholic weekly of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Catholic Church welco ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools reopen after the typhoon but there is still no electricity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - After the passage of devastating typhoon Bopha, which hit the country recently (see Fides 06/12/2012), thousands of children in the southern island of Mindanao are returning to school, late in co ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians disappeared: open letter to the President of the country Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Christian families who have suddenly "disappeared into thin air": the problem regarding, among other cases, the Boontheong family, in the province of Luang Namtha, or Khamsone Baccam, in the p ...
• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New attacks against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint of Catholics Ciudad Ixtepec (Agenzia Fides) - In the early days of 2013, new aggression and violence is registered against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint, through Fides Agency, made by the "Casa del Migrante Hermanos en el Camino ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Maroun Lahham: we open our churches to the Syrian refugees of the camp of Zaatari Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In front of the humanitarian catastrophe that looms over the refugee camp of Zaatari - where snowstorms and freezing rain in recent days have swept away hundreds of tents - Archbishop Maroun Laham ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence and murder, the Taliban have arrived in Karachi: the Church launches the alarm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A generalized violence grips by fear Karachi, South Pakistan's port city: ways and strategies to stop it are urgently required, also because in the city "the Taliban are actively working," repor ...
• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Crisis at the border with Haiti: Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez calls for government intervention Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On the crisis and the tensions that are registered at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic "only the governments on both sides, Dominican and Haiti, can find a solution to t ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian leaders debate over the electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the electoral law with which the legislative elections will be celebrated scheduled for next spring, sees distinctions and second thoughts emerge even among Christian leaders. As le ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appeal of the Diocese of Zamora for the priest missing since December 27 Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican diocese of Zamora sent to Fides Agency an appeal to pray for Father Santiago, of whom we know nothing. Father Santiago Alvarez Figueroa, 27 years old, on 27 December went to celebrate ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Extreme poverty forces children to leave school in order to find a job Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Education penalized by poverty. This is the situation for almost 50% of elementary school students in Bangladesh who are forced by the overwhelming poverty to leave school before completing fifth ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christians among those killed in the attacks in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Dismay, grief, fear, prayer: These are the feelings lived by the small Christian community in the province of Quetta, after the wave of terrorist attacks which yesterday, only in the city of Que ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - The tragedy of women bought, sold, sexually abused Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of human trafficking continues to rise and poverty causes the sexual exploitation of women who are the most vulnerable group in Yemen. They are bought and sold throughout the country ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - A small community of the Diocese of Feng Xiang becomes a point of reference for evangelization Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Nan Guan of the deanery of Bao Ji, in the diocese of Feng Xiang of Shaan Xi province, is a small community of about 200 faithful, but shows remarkable capacity for evangelizatio ...