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26 May 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA - A refugee camp has been assaulted from Libya: "we need to accelerate the reception procedures," says the priest who assists them
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " The UNHCR's responsible have arrived from Genova to try and handle the situation. The problem is that if the Tunisian government does not guarantee security, a commitment that was made when it ...
26 May 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA- The procedures for repatriation of Africans who fled from Libya and who are not entitled to asylum have begun
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " 350 Sudanese were repatriated last night and tonight another 250 from Sudan, Chad and the Ivory Coast. Virtually all those who do not have right to political asylum will be expelled to their cou ...
26 May 2011
ASIA/SRI LANKA-War crimes and crimes against humanity on the Tamil: will be discussed at the UN
Colombo (Fides Service) - The accusations of "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka will be discussed, starting from May 30, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva . As reporte ...
26 May 2011
ASIA/BANGLADESH-After two years victims of the cyclone Aila still need help
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the cyclone Aila, which destroyed south western Bangladesh, thousands of survivors are still in need of everything. According to Bangladesh's Disaster Management Bureau, the peopl ...
26 May 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-The radio, a means to train new leaders of civil society, the antidote to fundamentalism
Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to the radio, a means of communication and widely listened to by a lot of young Pakistanis, it is possible to train new leaders of civil society, with moderate and democratic ideas, based ...
25 May 2011
ASIA/CHINA-Every Catholic must assume missionary responsibility
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information received by Fides, there are several initiatives in this period by the continental Catholic community to promote evangelism. From May 13 to 15, 140 faithful, especially ...
25 May 2011
ASIA/INDIA-New teaching center on media for tribal youths
Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - The Lievens' Institute of Film and Electronic Media (LIFE), a new center of the Society of Jesus has recently been inaugurated in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, with the aim to give young people o ...
25 May 2011
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-"Our priority is the reconciliation of souls" the national director of the PMS says to Fides
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Our priority as a Church is the reconciliation of people," says Father Alphonse N'Guessan N'Guessan, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Côte d'Ivoire to Fides. On M ...
25 May 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES-On track with the young, on the streets with the poor, at school with the disabled, to proclaim Christ
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Going towards the young, the poor and disabled with a renewed pastoral impetus: this is the style that the Guanellians re-launch from the Philippines after the end of the GYM CONTEST, a highly aw ...
25 May 2011
EUROPE/SPAIN-Regain the "evangelical poverty" and the "Missio Dei": the PMS assembly of diocesan directors
Alcalá de Henares (Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain has begun in Alcalá de Henares. The meeting will bring together a hundred responsible o ...
25 May 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN-"The population is fleeing from Abyei under the rain and is at risk of epidemics, no one helps them" dramatic appeal of the parish priest and the Apostolic Administrator
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The population fleeing from the city is still moving towards south, " says Fr. Peter Suleiman, pastor of Abyei to Fides, a town on the border between north and south Sudan, occupied by troops ...
25 May 2011
AMERICA/HAITI-The hope of a new life for the Haitian children returned back to their families
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Eight Haitian children who were in the Dominican Republic as victims of human trafficking were repatriated and returned back to their families with the help of the International Organizat ...
25 May 2011
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE-Appointment of the Auxiliary of Maputo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 25, 2011 the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maputo (Mozambique), Rev.do Priest João Carlos Hatoa Nunes, General Pro-Vicar, Chancellor of t ...
25 May 2011
EUROPE/LITHUANIA-Priest attacked during Mass suffers burns to the head
Jonava (Agenzia Fides) - A priest was assaulted during the Mass and suffered burns to his head and face. Father Remigijus Kuprys, 46, on Thursday, May 19 was offering Mass in the city of Jonava when a-42-year old man ...
24 May 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON-"Proposing vocations in the local Church": the role of the youth in vocational promotion
Edea (Agenzia Fides) - Ninety young aspirants to priesthood and religious life of the diocese of Edea and the neighboring dioceses of Douala and Yaoundé, lived three days of study, prayer and fraternity, from May 13 to ...
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