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30 April 2011
ASIA/CAMBODIA -New treatment and rehabilitation centers for children at risk
Neak Loeung (Agenzia Fides) - Currently in the world there are about 150 million street children. In Cambodia, poverty, lack of education and scruples on behalf of many adults and especially the lack of intervention by t ...
29 April 2011
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The “missionary” John Paul II in the hearts of the indigenous
Vanimo (Agenzia Fides) – Faithful Catholics, Christians of all confessions and even non-Christians in Papua New Guinea carry the work of John Paul II in their hearts, according to missionaries working in the Country. T ...
29 April 2011
MISSIONARY INTENTION - “That the Lord may help the Church in China persevere in fidelity to the Gospel and grow in unity” - Commentary on the Missionary Intention for May 2011
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to estimates, the number of Catholics in China is little more than 1% of the population. Given that this is the most populous country in the world, even though they are a small ...
29 April 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Inter-religious dialogue as the way for peace”: appeal by Christian and Muslim women in northern Nigeria
Kaduna (Agenzia Fides) - “The root cause is not religion and the solution cannot only be religious,” says a statement sent to Fides by the Interfaith Council of Muslim and Christian Women’s Groups in Kaduna, northe ...
29 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl held and abused: the indignation of the Church and civil society
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – Indignation and concern, but also worry and fear, within the Christian community and civil society following the latest case of violence and abuse on a Christian girl: Sehar Naz, 24 years o ...
29 April 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN-A seminar has been evacuated in southern Sudan due to inter-community clashes
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The seminarians of the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Mapuordit Rumbek (South Sudan) were moved to Yirol for safety reasons, says the Sudan Catholic Radio Network site. Since March the town o ...
29 April 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA -The Pope with the miner's helmet, an image from Bolivia that went around the world
Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Oruro, in Bolivia, is looking forward to the beatification of Pope John Paul II, said Monsignor Cristobal Bialasik, SVD, Bishop of this diocese. The people of Oruro recalls with af ...
29 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN -The Federal Ministry for Religious Minorities in danger of being abolished
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Ministry for religious minorities - which was the seat of the murdered Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti - is likely to be abolished by the central government and fragmented into fo ...
29 April 2011
AMERICA/PERU -A group of Haitians in Peru call for refugee status, with the support of the Church
Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Department of Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, has informed, on behalf of the Regional Office UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ...
28 April 2011
EUROPE / POLAND - Thirty new Polish missionaries leaving for America, Africa and Asia
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the celebrations in honor of St. Adalbert, the patron saint of Poland, and in the joyful context awaiting the beatification of Pope John Paul II, the Apostolic Nuncio in Pol ...
28 April 2011
AMERICA / HONDURAS - "We have to leave the church and be witnesses of life”, said Bishop Pineda
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Only if the people are united in faith, love and hope, they will be able to deal with "the heavy cross of unemployment, violence, lack of justice, impunity and corruption": This is what was ...
28 April 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA -"Last night a violent bombing near the church devastated the serenity of innocent citizens, how can the UN authorize this?" complains Bishop Martinelli
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know what objective was hit near the church, but it was a terrible bombing" said Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides. "We were awakened at twe ...
28 April 2011
AMERICA / MEXICO - John Paul II an admirer of mango
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mango, tropical fruit that grows in Latin America, was without doubt one of the favourite fruit of Pope John Paul II, who tasted it for the first time during his trip to Mexico. Considering ...
28 April 2011
ASIA/JAPAN- Inter-religious solidarity and hope in the day of mourning for the "49 days"
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and Buddhists in Japan have shared today, April 28th, in solidarity and love for one another, the "49 Days" since the tragedy of 11 March, when an earthquake and tsunami devastated th ...
28 April 2011
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-The head of Caritas in Abidjan, "the situation of IDPs is slowly improving"
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We will see between today and tomorrow what will be the result of yesterday`s clashes, if the combatants of IB (Ibrahim Coulibaly), will lay down their weapons, now that their leader has been ...
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