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• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/BELIZE - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Belize City-Belmopan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 18, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Christopher Glancy, C.S.V.as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, Belize, assigning him the titular ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Still rain, the church flooded: it is emergency in Iñapari on the border with Brazil Iñapari (Agenzia Fides) - The small town of Iñapari has been flooded for several days. This district of Madre de Dios (Peru), on the border with Brazil and Bolivia, has been suffering for days because of heavy rains th ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country affected by rains, floods and an epidemic of dengue La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Landslides alarm and swollen rivers in Bolivia, where 6,585 families have been displaced in the last two months and where there have been 7 deaths so far. The regions most affected are those of O ...
• 20 February 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The priests and nuns arrested on February 16 have been released, when a march was blocked organized by lay Catholics Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The three priests and two nuns who were arrested on February 16 in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo have been released. This is confirmed to Fides by the local Church from Ki ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nearly 40 children died from last month’s cold temperatures Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Ministry of Health of Afghanistan, last month about 40 children died because of the cold weather in different parts of the country. 24 of them lost their lives in the refugee camp ...
• 20 February 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope and Cardinals: "This is your task in particular: to bear witness to the joy of Christ's love" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your mission in the Church and the world always be 'in Christ' alone, responding to his logic and not that of the world, and may be illumined by faith and animated by charity which comes t ...
• 20 February 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishop of Banmaw: "Peace long and difficult on Kachin land, full of landmines" Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The landmines that the land is scattered with and the serious epidemics affecting children: are among the most pressing problems of the population of ethnic Kachin, in the north of Myanmar, the s ...
• 20 February 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - The situation of the Haitians in Peru: the Bishops’ note Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Episcopal Conference has sent a note to Fides about the situation of Haitians who have been stopped on the border for several months, and would like to enter Brazil. The note explains ...
• 20 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Islamic brotherhoods in the electoral game Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "There is not a good atmosphere, especially here in Dakar, even if the rest of the Country, the situation looks better," say to Fides local Church sources from the capital of Senegal, where a week ...
• 17 February 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Recognize the gifts received and return in charity and service: Mgr. John Tong’s message for Lent, newly-appointed Cardinal Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "What we need to be interested in today's society is not just the material needs of our younger brothers and sisters, but also their right and their freedom to be children of God, who are inse ...
• 17 February 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of the preparatory Seminary "Emmaus Spirituality Centre" in Lusaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 20, 2011 appointed rev. Cornelius Hankomoone, of the diocesan clergy of Monze as Rector of the preparatory inter-di ...
• 17 February 2012
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Seminary "São Pius X" in Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 28, 2011 appointed rev. Inacio Lucas, of the diocesan clergy of Nacala as Rector of the interdiocesan Theological S ...
• 17 February 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope to the African and European Bishops: the Church in the two continents "is alive, she is growing, and is not afraid to carry out her evangelizing mission" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your symposium has given you the chance to reflect upon the problems of the Church on the two continents.Certainly, they is no lack of difficulties, and some of them are great; yet they ar ...
• 17 February 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "I have lived the experience of 5 cyclones, but this was worse than the others": the Bishop of Moramanga traces to Fides an initial toll of the damage Moramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "The rivers have risen and in many parts of the city there were severe floods, the crops have been completely lost, in some villages epidemics are feared, many houses (huts or similar) have co ...
• 17 February 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND -The appeal on behalf of the Custodian of the Holy Land for Syria: the weakest in society are hit so inescapable, there is no electricity and water, many companies have closed down Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "After the change in Egypt, the situation in which Syria finds itself unequivocally indicates how the landscape in the Middle East is transforming. Until a year ago it would have been unthinka ...