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• 15 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Death of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. Patriarch Laham: "May his death be an offer for peace" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Jules Baghdassarian, 55, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Syria, a position he had held since 2003, died yesterday at noon, following a sudden heart attack. Fr J ...
• 15 November 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "We cannot close our eyes or keep silent before the serious problems the country faces " Bishops during the 50th Episcopal Conference Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Bolivian Bishops reiterated their concerns and said they will be careful and will not remain silent before the serious problems that threaten the country. Their purpose is contained in the me ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Alarm within easy reach of the capital for a new outbreak of Ebola Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda a new outbreak of deadly Ebola is ongoing that so far has recorded two deaths, both belonging to the same family, in Luweero district, 62 kilometers away from the capital Kampala. Last ...
• 15 November 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister Valsa John’s murder: after a year, the trial for the culprits has not yet begun Dumka (Agenzia Fides) - A year after Sister Valsa John’s death, a nun of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary killed in the Indian state of Jharkhand on November 15, 2011, "the trial for the culprits has not yet be ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Two thousand farmers have lost their crops due to flooding and they risk serious diseases Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - Flash floods have washed away the rice harvest of about 2,000 farmers in western Kenya, flooding some of their houses and emptying latrines into watercourses. Officials at the Ministry of Agricul ...
• 15 November 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "This suffering must end": The Bishops call for an immigration reform in 2013 Baltimore (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Los Angeles, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Gomez, who chairs the Committee on Migration of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the United States of America (USCCB), urged re-elected Pres ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II: Coptic Orthodox representatives may withdraw from the Constituent Assembly Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II hopes that the new Constitution in the process of being drafted retains without modification Article 2 of the previous text of the Constitution - which rec ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Car bomb outside a church in northeastern Syria Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - A car bomb exploded in front of the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, in the city of Raqqah, in northeastern Syria, causing two deaths and injuring a woman, all civilians. As confirmed by Fi ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - To form the youth so that they are followers of Christ; towards World Youth Day in Taiwan Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of young people, so that they are followers of Christ and witnesses of the Lord, was the objective of the fourth Taiwan Youth Ministers' Meeting (TYMM), which was held from Octobe ...
• 14 November 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - A "sheet" that managed to arrive where the Church did not arrive...for 50 years Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Talking is still going on, in parishes and among the people of Cuba with regards to the celebration held on Sunday, November 4, presided over by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Archbishop of Havana, for ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for a Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy, in prison for seven years Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The ordeal of Younis Masih, 26 years of age at the time of his arrest, a Christian sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Mohammed, who for seven years has been in prison, is emblematic for ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA - Asian Bishops in Holy Land to "return to the sources" in the Year of Faith Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Returning to the sources and thinking about evangelization again, with a pilgrimage to Holy Land in the Year of Faith: with this spirit 120 Asian Bishops experienced, from November 6 to 12, a ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Families and especially children in the refugee camp of Atmeh, on the border between Syria and Turkey Atmeh (Agenzia Fides) - There are many children who have escaped the on-going bloody civil war in Syria and represent the majority of the displaced in the tents of the refugee camp of Atmeh, on the border between Syria a ...
• 14 November 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace process is necessary but difficult," said Cardinal Salazar Gomez Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace process is a necessary process. In Colombia it is very difficult to achieve a military victory, not because our army is not adequately prepared, but for the geographical conditions and for ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria loses $ 7 billion in lost revenue due to the theft of oil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria loses about $ 7 billion annually in lost revenue due to theft and loss of oil in the extraction plants and pipelines. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a body ...