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11 October 2011
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Voting in Liberia for the election of the President and the renewal of the House and Senate
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Urns are open today, October 11th in Liberia for the three elections involving the election of the President, senators and deputies. The voters are 1.8 million, while there are 16 candidates f ...
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11 October 2011
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The mission "for the sanctity of the family", following the example of the Blessed Peter To Rot
Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) - The family is called to be "domestic Church", a place where you breathe and live holiness: is the invitation of the Archbishop of Rabaul, His Exc. Mgr. Francesco Panfilo sdb, addressed to the fai ...
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10 October 2011
EUROPE/POLAND - The fund raising of the "Star Singers" is destined to South Sudan: in June, the National Congress of Missionary Childhood
Niepokalanów (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of Missionary Month, from September 26 to 28, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary organizations in Poland took place, in ...
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10 October 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - In preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress, the Church of Taiwan announced the National Eucharistic Congress, November 19
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In order to accommodate and prepare for the International Eucharistic Congress - which is "a blessing for the Church in Taiwan" in the words of Archbishop John Hung, Archbishop of Tai Pei and Pr ...
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10 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Mission with mass media and social networks, to speak the language of the youth
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The mission in the Philippines travels on blogs, social networks, with new technologies and new channels, because it aims to "speak the language of the youth": is what Fr. Socrates Mesiona, Natio ...
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10 October 2011
ASIA/INDIA-The Word of God is the engine of the mission: the new Bible in kashmiri has been presented
Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) – To render the Word of God the engine of the mission; renew the efforts for dialogue and cooperation with the Muslim majority: in this spirit and with these intentions the small Christian comm ...
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10 October 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Representative of UNICEF visited the headquarters of the PMS
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Argentina, Father Osvaldo Pablo Leone, received on Friday, October 7 the visit of a UNICEF Representative in Argentina, Mr ...
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10 October 2011
AFRICA/GHANA - Two million people with disabilities still hampered by lack of infrastructure and architectural barriers
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - In Ghana, according to estimates by the World Health Organization, there are 2 million disabled people, between 7 to 10% of the population of the country. Five years after the approval of the 'Per ...
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10 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: yes to legality, but "no one touches the murderer Mumtaz Qadri"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes" to justice and legality, "no" to death penalty, even for Mumtaz Qadri, who killed the governor of Punjab Salman Taseer and has become for radical Islamic groups, "the hero of blasphemy". Th ...
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10 October 2011
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Missionary Month begins with the sending of 150 catechists
Miranda (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo García Naranjo, Bishop of the Diocese of Guarenas, in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, celebrated a Mass of the sending of 150 missionary catechists from different paris ...
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10 October 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - " Violence that recalls the initial suppression of the Egyptian revolution", says the National Director of the Egyptian PMS
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "A peaceful protest was violently suppressed by the military. They are scenes reminiscent of the Egyptian revolution which took place early in January", says don Nabil Fayez Antoun, National Direc ...
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10 October 2011
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Morality, democracy and pluralism in the Bishops' document for the elections to be held on November 6
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua has published its message on the occasion of the upcoming elections on November 6, signed by all the bishops with the date of October 7, 2011, a copy of whi ...
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10 October 2011
VATICAN - St. Joseph International Missionary College: catechists are called to invite mankind to take part in the Feast of the kingdom
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday 8 October, St. Joseph International Missionary College, welcomed for the first time, the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Archbishop Fernando ...
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10 October 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Weak participation and murder of two policemen mark the elections
Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - A relatively weak turnout characterized the presidential elections in Cameroon, yesterday, Sunday, Oct. 9, according to news agency reports (see Fides 08/10/2011). The election day was also marr ...
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8 October 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Discouragement among the population of Veracruz due to the climate of violence: 36 corpses were found
Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - Just two days after the signing of the plan "Veracruz Seguro" between the federal government and the state government of Veracruz, 32 bodies were found in 3 houses, and another 4 bodies were fo ...
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