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24 September 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - Forthcoming visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo, Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and Libya, should come to Tripoli on September 28 for a courtesy call" says Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tr ...
24 September 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in the Archdiocese of Bamenda
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 2011 Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the Theological inter-diocesan Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aq ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - The phenomenon of "missing girls" continues to increase
Dehradun (Agenzia Fides) - India is the fourth country in the world most at risk for the female gender, after Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan, and the widespread practice of selective abortion of female fetuses makes the ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - To further strengthen evangelization: the exhortation on behalf of Mgr. Tong to the Legion of Mary
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "A competent force of the diocesan evangelization": this is the appreciation and consideration shown by Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, to the 1,500 members of the Legion of Mary who came ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Statistics on communal violence: debate on the law for the protection of minorities
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 episodes of violence in four years, 648 people died and 11 thousand were injured in the 24 states of the Indian Federation: these statistics released by the Indian Bishops on v ...
23 September 2011
EUROPE/ALBANIA - Religious communities are aware of their role in the construction of a new society
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "All the religious communities showed a keen awareness that Albania today is still a society in transition: some issues from the past remain unresolved and there are significant political, social a ...
23 September 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA-ITNPIS march: The Church is always available to guide the dialogue between the sides
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The march in defense of the Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Secure, ITNPIS (see Fides 30/08/2011, 20/09/2011), has stopped in the small town of San Miguel de Chaparina about 8 kilomete ...
23 September 2011
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Opposition leader Michael Sata is the new President of the Country
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Zambia have expressed themselves and we must all listen to them. This is not the moment for violence and revenge. This is is the moment for unity and to build together the future o ...
23 September 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nearly 100 years after the first law against human trafficking, the struggle of the Church continues
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Today, September 23, at 5pm at Plaza Constitucion in the capital of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, sj, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, will celebrate a Mass for the victims of human ...
23 September 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "Notre Dame de l'Espérance" in the Archdiocese of Bertoua
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 15 July 2011 appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan Theological Major Seminary "Notre Dame de l ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao without peace: terrorism alarm, Islamic fundamentalists cause havoc, deadlock in the negotiations
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – Criminal terrorist groups in search of visibility; uncertainty about future policies; Islamic fundamentalist infiltration from abroad; deadlock in the peace process and the elections fo ...
23 September 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - New clashes in South Kordofan: the crisis is likely to worsen
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting erupted yesterday, September 22, in the state of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, after rebels of the Sudan’s People’s Liberation Movement North ...
22 September 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church in Argentina celebrates "the month of the Bible"
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As in many Latin American countries, the month of September is celebrated in Argentina as "the month of the Bible". For decades, this time of year, different parishes organize activities th ...
22 September 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Armed violence continues to disrupt the lives of small towns in Chocó
Quibdo (Agenzia Fides) - The frequent actions of armed groups against the population have created fear and anxiety among Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples who live in the department of Chocó, and are no longer abl ...
22 September 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization": how to create a good project for evangelization
Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization" was the theme of the Seminar organized by the Missionary Association of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung, on the island of Taiwan, on Sept. 17. According to i ...
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