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• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Living faith is the best way to spread it: the deanery of Cang Nan in the Diocese of Wen Zhou opens the Year of Faith Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Living faith is the best way to spread it: with this belief the participants at the Annual Assembly of the Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs of the deanery of Cang Nan of the Diocese of Wen Zh ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Church desecrated by bandits, then furnish returned and ceremony of reconciliation Homs (Agenzia Fides) - An act of vandalism, then the apology and reconciliation. This happened in Qara, in the diocese of Homs (Western Syria), where on November 19 the ancient church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, of th ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Calm situation, but developments are unpredictable; in any case the missionaries remain close to the population Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Today in Bukavu, the situation is calm after yesterday where demonstrations and looting by the people were carried out after they had spread the news of the advance of the rebels of the M23 fr ...
• 22 November 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Challenges to the family in the national reality: a Bishops' letter is being prepared San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) – On November 21, the annual Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) ended, during which various issues, including the pastoral, political situation and social development of ...
• 22 November 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Indigenous Peoples: "no longer the object of our love, but the protagonists of their own history" Luziania (Agenzia Fides) - "The identity of Cimi is the alliance with indigenous peoples, so that they do not lose their identity": said the President of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Bishop of the Prelat ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA - "The region is going through a complex and painful transition," say the Bishops of North Africa Mazara del Vallo (Agenzia Fides) - "A more difficult and painful transition than expected a year ago." This is what the Bishops of CERNA (Episcopal Conference of the North Africa Region) say at the end of their Plenary A ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Thousands of children workers suffer verbal and physical abuse, despite laws Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - There are so many children, sometimes just 8 years old, who are physically abused and spend the whole day at work as domestic servants for a paltry reward. To offer a panorama of this disconcertin ...
• 22 November 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 8,900 families severely affected by the floods Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the course of this year in Uganda there has been a succession of disasters and emergency situations such as tribal, border conflicts, fighting for territory, population movements from other c ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A thousand faithful attended the blessing of the new statue of Our Lady of the parish of Dong He, in Mongolia, and the inauguration of the Pastoral Center Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The blessing of the new statue of the Madonna, 4 meters high, and the inauguration of the new pastoral Center, represent a dream come true, an imperative call to evangelization especially in the ...
• 21 November 2012
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - "It is 500 years old, but it is a young church": recalled the arrival of the first Bishop in the Americas San Juan, Puerto Rico (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop emeritus of Seville, Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Special Envoy of Pope Benedict XVI presided at a solemn Eucharist on Sunday, November 18, in front of thousands ...
• 21 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The M23 begins its administration of the city of Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 movement has summoned members of the police and FARDC (the Congolese army) still present in Goma at the stadium of the city, probably to recruit them in the administration which they ar ...
• 21 November 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New maternal and child health center in Soddo Soddo (Agenzia Fides) - Facing recurrent famines and epidemics, the Ethiopian population lives the terrible contradiction of population growth among the most striking in the entire African continent and of mortality, esp ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON -The whole of Lebanon is gathered around Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai, new Cardinal Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The entrance to the Sacred College of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai is an opportunity to regain the national unity of Lebanon in an extremely delicate moment for the political and social ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After Rimsha’s case, other 36 cases sentenced either to death or life imprisonment for blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - If one case, that of Rimsha Masih, was resolved with a happy ending, there are many other cases of alleged blasphemy in which innocent victims suffer in prison and are subject to a long legal ...
• 21 November 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cardinal Ortega’s Letter for the Year of Faith, "a meditation on this historic moment to promote the encounter of the Cuban people with Jesus" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "Esta es nuestra Fe" (This is our Faith) is the title of Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino’s pastoral Letter, on the occasion of the Year of Faith. According to the explanatory note of the Confere ...