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• 30 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Meeting of Families in Milan: Bolivia present, with a NO to gay couples Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Before leaving for Milan (Italy) headquarters of the Seventh International Meeting of Families, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Bascopé, Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, said that for the four Bolivian c ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas strongly condemns the "DIY justice" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz, has strongly condemned the scourge of the "DIY justice". "It is really scary to know when someone is lynched, as if it were a significant fa ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-With the Day of Prayer for the Church in China "the springtime of the Church" has arrived Shao Guan (Agenzia Fides) - With the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China "spring has arrived for the church of Shao Guan", in the diocese of Guang Zhou: is what the local priest said. In fact on May 24 the local ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Presidentials: runoff between the candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood and the army Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The two realities better organized won: the Muslim Brotherhood, thanks to their social networks spread throughout Egypt, the military and the great bureaucracy state " say to Fides local sources ...
• 29 May 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The plight of migrants repatriated by force to their country Toncontin (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty, social status and violence are the factors that continue to push our compatriots to leave the country, following a dangerous path, full of pain and suffering," said Sister Valdete Wi ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Civil Society: a power vacuum, there is a risk of violence and profiteering Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Uncertainty, lack of clarity and perspective, fear dominates the social and political climate in Kathmandu, shaken yesterday by protests outside the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly, w ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda denies supporting the Congolese guerrilla Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Rwanda has denied with a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, the allegations contained in a confidential report of the United Nations on the recruit ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-Appointment of Bishop of Nkongsamba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012, appointed Rev. Dieudonné Espoir Atangana of the clergy of Obala as Bishop of the Diocese of Nkongsamba Cameroon, he was the former rector of t ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Erection of the Diocese of Bafang and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 26, 2012 established the new Diocese of Bafang in Cameroon (from the Diocese of Nkongsamba), making it a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Douala, and appo ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-Many believers received Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion at Pentecost Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The continental Catholic community celebrated the feast of Pentecost with the administration of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion to many of the faithful, and ...
• 28 May 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church must be present in working panel discussions with indigenous communities Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Manuel Camilo Vial, underlined that the Church must participate in working panel discussions with indigenous communities, announced by President ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christian family murdered in Punjab Okara (Agenzia Fides) – An entire Christian family was brutally killed in Punjab. Four people were slaughtered in the Christian colony of Muhala Ahmad, in the city of Okara, in the south of Lahore, capital of Punjab. T ...
• 28 May 2012
  VATICAN - Pope at Pentecost: "Jesus sends his Spirit to the Church so that every Christian can become his effective witness in the world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus, risen and ascended into heaven, sends his Spirit to the Church, so that all Christians can participate in his divine life and become his effective witness in the world. The Holy Spi ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Authority and population are contrary to an Islamic State in the north; all faiths pray for peace Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Both the political authorities and the people have reaffirmed that Mali is one and indivisible. The same original inhabitants of the north that are located in Bamako, are contrary to the secessi ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayer and Fasting in the hell of battle: the experience of a Catholic priest Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of massacres, rape, shootings, kidnappings, vendettas, a small flame of faith and love is kindled in the city of Qusayr (near Homs), one of the places where the war rages more violen ...