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• 25 July 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Muslim leader attends lessons in Christianity at the Pontifical Universities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sohail Raza, 42 years of age, a Muslim from Lahore, is the Director of the Department for Inter-religious Relations in "Minhaj ul Quran" ("The Way of the Koran"), an international Islamic movemen ...
• 25 July 2012
  VATICAN - Foundation "Populorum Progressio": 203 projects are being examined in favor of indigenous, mestizo and Afro-American peoples in Latin America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Foundation "Populorum Progressio" is being held in Bogota (Colombia), from July 24 to 27, assigned since its founding in 1992 to the Pont ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, on June 8, 2012 appointed Rev. Leonardo Rodriguez, of the diocesan clergy of Canelones as Nation ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Poverty has a female face": alarming discrimination against women Durango (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Sanchez Martinez, denounced "the alarming discrimination against women in Mexico", in particular in his diocese. He said that "violence aga ...
• 25 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Director of the PMS: "Aleppo paralyzed by the fighting, Christians in fear" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "For two days Aleppo has been paralyzed by the fighting. The situation is very serious. We hear gunshots all the time. People are locked in the house, offices are closed, business is at a stand s ...
• 25 July 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Torrential rains cause death and devastation, two camps for the displaced have been set up Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Due to heavy rains that is hitting Nigeria, in the Central Plateau region, so far at least 35 people have been killed, 50 are reported missing and 370 houses have been destroyed or submerged by wa ...
• 25 July 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A series of initiatives of the Church to say "no" to the division of the country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a series of initiatives to say no to the "balkanization" of the Country, whose territorial integrity is threatened by yet another arm ...
• 25 July 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - Conflict in the region of Araucania; for Caritas "the way of righteousness leads to peace" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Institute has issued a statement condemning the violent events of recent days which took place in the Chilean region of Araucania and proposes the way of justice as the only one ...
• 25 July 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Agricultural land belonging to the Christians in Punjab illegally confiscated Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Influential Muslims take possession of 40 acres of farmland belonging to Christian families in Punjab, with the complicity of the police: as reported to Fides by local sources, it is a subtle inst ...
• 25 July 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - African Catholic Journalists participate in a conference: communication to promote peace Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics Journalists from several African countries started on July 23 in Mombasa (Kenya) a four-day seminar on the role of media in conflict resolution, peace building and promotion of good go ...
• 24 July 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Chaos, death and destruction due to the most intense cataclysm in the past 60 years Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A storm lasting over 10 hours has brought death and destruction in the main streets of Beijing, rivers have flooded the underground tunnels and subways, causing the death of several people. This ...
• 24 July 2012
  VATICAN - "The best testimony that the Church can give to the world is that of unity, brotherhood and communion" says Cardinal Filoni to the Bishops of Central Africa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Be united and supportive among each other! Consolidate the spirit of ecclesial communion and brotherhood so that your ministry is fruitful, and be an example for the flock entrusted to you": thi ...
• 24 July 2012
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Stop violence against women: an emergency for the State and the Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of a convivial gathering to say thank you to the various institutions for the end of President Leonel Fernandez' mandate, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Arch ...
• 24 July 2012
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Missionaries and the young committed to the care of young disabled children Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "We care for the lives of disabled children ", says to Fides Fr. John Glynn, an Irish fidei donum missionary in Papua New Guinea, currently serving in the "Jubilee Secondary School" in Port ...
• 24 July 2012
  AMERICA - Inauguration of the Observatory of the New Evangelization for Latin America Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelization, His Exc. Mgr. Octavio Ruiz Arenas, announced that on Tuesday, July 24, during the opening session of the meet ...