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• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Rebels accept "in principle" a cease-fire; the Bishops denounce the violence on both sides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the coalition Seleka have accepted the agreement in principle to a cease-fire for a week. The announcement was made in Libreville, capital of Gabon, which holds the peace talks betw ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new government is preparing the "tax hike" on religious communities Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The government of South Korea, led by the new President Park Geun-hye, of the Conservative Party Saenuri, is preparing to introduce, in the new tax law, which will be enacted at the end of January ...
• 11 January 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops denounce the "growing social disillusionment " and propose public education as a basis for development Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Panama have expressed their concerns about the "growing social disillusionment, consequence of the increase of stress, aggression, fear, political tension and an impairment loss of ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Battles between Malian army and rebels rage Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Konna, 70 km from Mopti (central Mali), is at the center of fighting between the Malian army and Islamist rebels who control the north of the country. "According to the latest informa ...
• 11 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The ecumenical sensitivity of Patriarch Tawadros approaches the creation of a Council of Christian Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new climate of openness and collaboration that has been recorded in recent months among the various Christian communities in Egypt could soon lead to the establishment of a Council of Christia ...
• 10 January 2013
  VATICAN - Pauline Jaricot, fruitful fidelity to Christ and farsighted commitment to evangelization Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "If St. Franesco Xavier was the enthusiastic missionary of evangelization, Jaricot was the one who saw in the support of evangelization 'an important duty of the People of God', which called for sp ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment of the Regional Episcopal Conference for the formation of priests and seminarians of the continent and for the Year of Faith Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment to support the training of priests and seminarians of the continent, the celebration of the Year of Faith and the examination of pastoral projects of 2013 were the main themes of ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The tragedy of child soldiers continues, forced to kill and sexually exploited Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,500 children have been recruited for armed conflict both by the Séléka Rebel Alliance troups, which already control 75% of the country, and forces of the Government of the Central Afric ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Churches: "We will exercise our constitutional right on the use of the name of Allah" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia will not observe the ban on using the word "Allah", imposed yesterday by the decree of the Sultan of Selangor state. The Churches in Malaysia are united with a common ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The situation of indigenous peoples requires the remedy of centuries of marginalization and injustice": Bishops on Mapuche Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile expressed their "deep concern" about the conflict that the village of La Araucanía is experiencing and stress ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - New massacres in the Tana Delta, concern for the hundreds of thousands of weapons in circulation Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 11 people were killed in the village of Kibusu, in the region of the Tana Delta, in Kenya, in an attack carried out at dawn today, January 10. Among the victims were five children. The ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: the influx of refugees from Syria threatens to destabilize the country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The hospitality towards refugees fleeing from the war-torn Syria is a meritorious act that must be encouraged. But with the relentless rise in the number of refugees, the dangers of political sta ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church also participates in the campaign for disarmament in the capital Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Catholic Church participates in a concrete way to the initiatives regarding the research of peace and tranquility in the capital," said the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Christian community trapped and completely worn out in the north of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - About a thousand Christians among Greek-Orthodoxs and Roman Catholics are trapped in the small village of Yaakoubieh, all Christian, in the north of Aleppo. They are completely worn out, with no ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI-Clashes between army and rebels, while in the capital protests continue Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that there were clashes between last night and the early morning of today, around the area of Konna, between the army and rebels, but the authorities havenot given precise information ab ...