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• 7 February 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The election campaign began last Sunday in a minor tone and there were no major clashes" say Church sources to Fides from Dakar, Senegal's capital, where on February 5 the campaign for the presid ...
• 7 February 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Reconciliation and peace with the Taliban: the desire of the Afghan civil society Herat (Agenzia Fides) - The Afghan civil society supports a full reconciliation with the Taliban movement and a political-diplomatic solution to the Afghan theater: So says a study published today, entitled "Foreign troo ...
• 7 February 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Santa Rosa: "I am here with you because the pastor, Father David Donis is not here anymore, unfortunately he was killed " Cuilapa (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Bernabe de Jesus Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M .Cap., Bishop of St. Rose of Lima, in Guatemala, celebrated Mass in the Church of the Holy Family in memory of the priest, Father David Donis, who ...
• 7 February 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The government and the Islamic leadership are moving to stop Boko Haram" says the Archbishop of Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The solution is at hand, because the government is working to face the problem of Boko Haram" says to Fides Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Federal capital of Nigeria, ...
• 7 February 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The path of Evangelization continues waiting for the Year of Faith Lin He (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to pursue the path of evangelization to welcome the Year of Faith: was the central theme of the second meeting of the parish of Lin He, in Inner Mongolia, which was held on Sunday, Febru ...
• 6 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias’ appeal: "it is necessary to eradicate forms of dehumanization in India" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to eradicate all forms of dehumanization in India; to put into action an effort to humanize the social, political, economic and religious structures and institutions of the c ...
• 6 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Peace, development, education: the emergencies of a vast and plural country Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Peace, education, development, literacy, to build a fair and equitable society: these are the needs indicated by several Bishops of India at the Plenary Assembly being held in Bangalore on the ...
• 6 February 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A think-tank on religious freedom and persecution: the idea of Pakistani Christians abroad Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to create a think-tank, which acts as Observatory and Study Center, to monitor the status of Christians in Pakistan, their difficulties and challenges: this is the proposal ...
• 6 February 2012
  ASIA/TURKEY - Patriarch Bartholomew at the National Assembly to discuss the new Constitution Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Istanbul Bartholomew I, of the Orthodox Church, will participate in the work of the Turkish National Assembly to discuss the drafting of the new Constitution, in par ...
• 6 February 2012
  AFRICA - The African Union and the path of democracy in Africa Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in its history, the African Union (AU) has failed to elect its President. At the 18th Summit of the Heads of State held in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia and seat of the ...
• 6 February 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "Forgiveness and love for one’s enemy": the choice of persecuted Christians in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The persecuted Christians in Orissa want to "forgive and love their enemies, persecutors", as the Gospel of Christ says: is what has emerged from a meeting held in recent days at the home fo ...
• 6 February 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country is wounded to death by violence, poverty, corruption" denounces Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga before the President of Honduras Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, said before the highest authorities of Honduras that the country is bleeding, mortally wounded by violence, increasing p ...
• 6 February 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Members of the Missionary, diocesan and parish Councils at the formation missionary school Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Missionary Council (Comina) is an organization of the Catholic Church in Brazil, which has as main purpose the promotion of the missions of the Church in the country by a qualified ...
• 6 February 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In May, the first graduates of the Catholic University of Southern Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic University of Southern Sudan is in its fourth year and has more than 500 students. May 12th is the date where the first students will graduate " informs Fr. Mike Schultheis, SJ. In Ju ...
• 3 February 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on February 2, 2012 appointed Rev. Sac. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, as Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora (Nigeria), assigning him the titular see of Scebaziana. Rev. Sac. ...