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• 9 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "We need to avoid a civil war in Kivu": the missionaries aim at free and transparent elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What must be avoided is a possible clash between two large blocks: on the one hand, the M23 and allied groups, on the other hand the national army reinforced by the integration of other armed ...
• 9 November 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "We are asking for help to get out of violence": the appeal of the Diocese of Buenaventura Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are asking help to national and international opinion so that they pay attention towards Buenaventura, in order to get out of violence": this is the appeal by His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Epal ...
• 9 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Flooding: "We have nothing, but we will stay with the people in difficulty until the end," says a missionary Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have no drinking water, 160 people have already died due to the rains. The waters flooded all the villages in the area, " writes Brother Damian Krzystof to Fides Agency, a Polish missionary, w ...
• 9 November 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Scolastic integration "is the gateway to human formation" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "In spite of the efforts and progress, there is still much to be done in schools and communities to achieve equal education for all, to overcome cultural, economic, social and racial barriers ...
• 8 November 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - "Being able to read, listen, see": a Congress on the ethical responsibility of spectators Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Second International Congress of infoethics 2012 will begin today, November 8, and will end on Saturday, November 10. It will focus on the ethical responsibility of the public. "Much has been d ...
• 8 November 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Living Spring Foundation has been providing support for the initiatives of evangelization for 5 years Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Living Spring Foundation, Catholic non-profit foundation in Hong Kong, celebrated its 5 years of life and support to evangelization. According to information gathered by Fides Agency, the ...
• 8 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Church's efforts to free the kidnapped Christians and to assist the displaced Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - There is an effort underway on behalf of the Church to try to free ten Christians who were kidnapped in recent days by an armed group while they were on a bus from Aleppo to Beirut (see Fides 06/ ...
• 8 November 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought alarm: nearly 2 million people at risk of hunger, of whom 500,000 are children Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Some 500,000 Angolan children are at risk of hunger due to the drought that has hit the Country. The alarm was raised by the Angolan government, according to which "10 of the 18 provinces of the ...
• 8 November 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Earthquake in Guatemala: 48 victims and 17,000 displaced San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) - The earthquake of 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit yesterday, Wednesday, November 7, the northern part of Guatemala has caused 48 deaths. This was announced by the President of Guatemala, Ot ...
• 8 November 2012
  VATICAN - "The Church needs the two solid pillars of Missio ad Gentes and New Evangelization": Cardinal Filoni opens the Symposium on Evangelization in Owerri Owerri (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus Christ is the first and ultimate subject of all evangelization, be it evangelization as the Missio ad Gentes or the New Evangelization. The Church, as the Body of Christ, has received this ...
• 8 November 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Cardinal Robert Sarah meets President Suleiman and the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch: may our Churches be closer, especially in these difficult times Baalbek (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Robert Sarah’s visit "is going really well. To the intense program, unexpected and surprising meetings are added, such as what occurred yesterday between the Cardinal and the Orthodox ...
• 8 November 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Negotiations and military preparations in view of the reconquest of the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The meetings which are taking place in Ouagadougou and Bamako are aimed at convincing a part of the groups that control the north of Mali to renounce armed struggle" says to Fides Agency Father ...
• 7 November 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Chinese Dominican Congregation has been evangelizing through service to the most vulnerable for 80 years Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) – To confirm the continuity of evangelization, pastoral commitment, service to the most vulnerable, according to the Dominican spirit: these are the reasons that characterized the celebration fo ...
• 7 November 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - A minute of prayer for Panama across the country, dialogue in Colon reopens Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Panama launched a special initiative: it asked everyone, wherever they were (at home, at work, in the car ...) a minute of prayer for the nation, yesterday, 6 November, at ...
• 7 November 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Two Christian girls raped in Orissa, one killed Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Horror and outrage in the Christian community in Orissa. Two 13-year-old Christian girls were raped and one was killed. The two separate mob attacks took place in the Kandhamal district abou ...