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4 April 2011
ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Government: Yes to the Bible in all languages, but for Christians they remain controversial points
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – Malaysian authorities have announced in a 10-point document, that they will allow the diffusion of over 30,000 Bibles which had been stopped at customs. This will circulate the Bible in a ...
4 April 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Legislative, presidential and local elections postponed; Cardinal Okogie calls on voters to remain calm but laments authorities' decision
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – The Nigerian authorities have postponed the legislative, presidential and local elections to 9, 16 and 26 April respectively. The legislative elections (for the Senate and the House of Represent ...
4 April 2011
AMERICA/PERU - “The practice of democracy must respect the ethical principles linked to promoting the common good”: Bishops remind people one week out from elections
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – One week out from the 2011 elections, to be held on 10 April, when Peruvians will elect their next President and Members of Congress for the Republic, the Bishops of Peru wish to remind the faith ...
4 April 2011
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Compartir 2011”: campaign by the Diocese of Los Teques and Caritas to confront the emergency
Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Los Teques, in Venezuela, together with the health program of Caritas, has begun its annual fundraising campaign known as “Compartir 2011”. The goal this year is to bring ...
2 April 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - More civilian victims and thousands of Libyans taking flight, reports the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, who still sees “glimmers of peace”
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “Yesterday, April 1, in Sirte, eight civilians, mostly women and children were killed by bombs released by the international forces,” Nishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of ...
2 April 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Fear not, little flock”: Pastoral Letter from Bishops to comfort the faithful
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians in Pakistan are going through Lent “with faith, in prayer, in sharing and in charity, seeking to prepare for Easter in the best way possible, at spiritual, liturgical and pa ...
2 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Clashes in Abidjan near national radio-television network headquarters; damages to Church buildings in Duékoué
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Violent clashes with heavy artillery continue in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, among the Republican Forces of President-elect Alassane Ouattara and the Security Forces who r ...
2 April 2011
EUROPE - CCEE Presidency: solidarity of all peoples and European institutions for African refugees
St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Confronted with the mass of African refugees who are reaching Europe via Italy's coasts, we need “the solidarity, and institutional solidarity, too, of all peoples on the European continen ...
2 April 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Communion, vocations, mission: the greatest fruits of Card. Varkey Vithayathil's work
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “the greatest fruit of Card. Varkey Vithayathil, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India, is communion, within the community, with other Indian Bishops and wi ...
2 April 2011
ASIA/NEPAL - Fires in two refugee camps: over 5,000 civilians without assistance
Jhapa (Agenzia Fides) – Many questions have been raised about what occurred in Nepal in recent days: two refugee camps in the eastern part of the country were set alight, with a hefty toll of over 700 homes destroyed a ...
2 April 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Group for theological formation of the laity in the Diocese of Shang Hai recalls their 15 year journey
Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) – A meeting on 29 March recalled the 15 year journey of the group for theological formation of the laity in the Diocese of Shang Hai. This journey has demanded strong support from Bishop Ali ...
2 April 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of Bishop of Kroonstad
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, on 1 April 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Kroonstad (South Africa), Fr Peter Holiday, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg, Par ...
1 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Fighting continues around the Presidential Palace in Abidjan
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Fighting between the armed forces of Ouattara and those of Gbagbo have gone on all night and are continuing today,” say Fides sources from the local Church in Cocody, in Côte d'Ivoire, Abi ...
1 April 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Two testimonies to Fides on the humanitarian situation in Côte d'Ivoire, shocked by the fighting
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is very confusing. Fighting continues. The soldiers barricaded in their barracks in Abidjan seem to be resisting. There is no news about Gbagbo, his family and members of his Go ...
31 March 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - “At least 40 civilian deaths in air raid on Tripoli,” complains Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, repeating the urgency for a diplomatic solution
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The so-called humanitarian air raids have taken the lives of dozens of civilians in various areas of Tripoli,” complains Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, t ...
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