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• 11 October 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The "catalyzing" Council for the growth of the Church in Africa, according to the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Second Vatican Council, which opened exactly 50 years ago, on 11 October 1962, was a "catalyst" for the growth of the Church in Africa. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, B ...
• 11 October 2012
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Youth and Year of Faith: the Gospel to say "No" to drugs, alcohol and disorderly sex Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith for the young people of Papua New Guinea, "a powerful opportunity and an invitation to rediscover the Gospel to say 'No' to drugs, alcohol, libertinage and disorder in sex ...
• 11 October 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 120 000 homeless, houses, hospitals, schools, churches and buildings destroyed or damaged by the worst flooding in 40 years Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - There are a million and 300,000 Nigerians displaced and 431 have died as a result of what local authorities have called the worst flooding in over 40 years, with 30 of the 36 states affected since ...
• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas: schools midway between children and refugees, the humanitarian emergency widens Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As the conflict continues, "humanitarian crisis increases more nad more: although we do our best we are not able to meet all the needs of refugees. We urgently need other humanitarian aid ": i ...
• 10 October 2012
  VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: the territories entrusted to "Propaganda Fide" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From news released by Fides Agency on October 17, 1962 it seems that the opening of the Second Vatican Council (ie 11 October 1962), depended on the then "Sacred Congregation de Propaganda ...
• 10 October 2012
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Experience communion among differences is possible if we remain in Christ, as the branches and the vine Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - « "I am the vine, you are the branches"(Jn 15:5). Difference - the result of belonging? »: Jesus’ words taken from John’s Gospel and a question, inspired in particular by the reality of ...
• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The site of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan for the Year of Faith has been inaugurated Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan has launched its official website for the Year of Faith in view of its opening on October 11, presided over by Benedict XVI in St. Peter's, with the p ...
• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Chaldean Bishop: Aleppo among insecurity, poverty and solidarity Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Aleppo the population is completely worn out because for three months insecurity, unemployment, poverty has reigned, and schools are closed and in hospitals doctors and medicines are lacking. ...
• 10 October 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition continues to increase, the country risks another famine crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the low rainfall falls below the seasonal average in Somalia, damaging the so-called 'crop Gu' and the dramatic increase of food price, the level of malnutrition in the country has ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Human trafficking: 8 out of 10 victims are minors, a crime to fight Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The Observatory on Crime of the Public Prosecutor reported that in Peru there were 1.112 reported cases of human trafficking from January 2008 to July 2012, and thus is considered as the second mos ...
• 10 October 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "People have great human qualities, despite the conflicts and extreme poverty" testimony of the Auxiliary of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of priests and the lack of economic self-sufficiency are the realities that characterize the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni, in Bolivia. "I have been here for seven years, first as a p ...
• 10 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Negotiation or war? The debate rages on how to resolve the crisis in the north Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In Mali there is a heated debate among the supporters of dialogue and those who are pushing for a military solution to the crisis in the north," is what Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the E ...
• 10 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taliban attack in Swat: Bishop defends "the right to life and education" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Every person has a sacred right to life and education": so says His Exc Mgr. Rufin Anthony, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi to Fides, the diocese which includes the Swat valley (province of Kh ...
• 9 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victims and wounded in clashes between police and the indigenous Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHAR) has launched a warning for the murder of six indigenous people in Guatemala, following the clashes between the communities o ...
• 9 October 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The new church is not a monument, but a call to evangelization and the life of faith Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "The new church is not a monument to show to the public, but is a reminder of evangelization and the life of faith, especially in view of the Year of Faith": is the appeal launched by His Exc. ...