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• 4 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christians and Muslims re-launch the values of dialogue, tolerance, unity Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - While the country is ravaged by sectarian violence and the growth of religious extremism, Christian and Muslim leaders re-launch the values of dialogue, peace and tolerance. "Meeting, dialogue, p ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Two statements of the responsible of Shabaab suggest a crisis in the fundamentalist movement Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Somali Islamist group Shabaab seems to be weakened by recent military and diplomatic developments and are internally divided. On the military side, with the conquest of Afgoyee in ...
• 4 June 2012
  AMERICA/PERU - Week of Migrants: intensify missionary activity in the field of human mobility Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 to 7 June "National Week of the Migrant and his family", coordinated by the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral of the Peruvian Episcopal Conferen ...
• 4 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "The desolation of Homs and the war of information ": the words of a greek-catholic Archimandrite Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Syria could be saved if everyone told the truth. After a year of conflict, the reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media": says a test ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops are devastated for the "Black Sunday" in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled and shocked by the two tragedies that hit Nigeria yesterday, the airplane crash in Lagos that killed 153 people, and the attack on a Christian church in Bauchi," says to Fides His ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO -Malnutrition and violence the innocent children and the population of Goma are having to face Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 4, is the "International Day of Innocent Children Victims of aggression" sponsored by the United Nations. The young ones and the entire population of North Kivu suffer the climate of te ...
• 2 June 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - It is important to bring war criminals to justice, but we also need to improve the population's economic and social advancement Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experience in Sierra Leone, sent his contribution to Fides Agency on the situation in Sierra Leone in the light of former Liberian Presid ...
• 1 June 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Day for hundreds of boys and girls of the PSMC dedicated to Blessed John Paul II Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - There were about 1,700 children from different Polish dioceses, gathered in Warsaw for the ninth national Congress organized by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (PSMC) in Poland. Th ...
• 1 June 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - 60 years of Camillian mission in Taiwan, "so that the sick are assisted with compassion and professionalism" Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The 60-year mission of the Camillians (Ministers of the Sick) in Taiwan have been fully inspired by the spirituality of St. Camillus de Lellis: so that the sick are cared for with compassion and ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - No laws against immigrants, the Church has the right to help migrants Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Catholic Bishops and the United States of America, after the meeting on migration and human mobility celebrated in Santo Domingo (see Fides 24/05/2012 and 31/05/2012) ha ...
• 1 June 2012
  VATICAN - The Magnificat "is the song that denounces the illusion of those who think themselves masters of the history and arbiters of their fate," recalls Pope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We all have something to learn from our heavenly Mother: her faith invites us to look beyond appearances and to believe firmly that the daily difficulties prepare a spring that has alread ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Youth in march to stop violence in the country Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - About 4,000 young Hondurans will participate in a march that will begin on June 8 from Tegucigalpa and will arrive in the town of Talanga on June 10, in the same central region of Honduras ...
• 1 June 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mother's Day: The Church pays tribute to women and defends "the true family" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of Nicaragua want to present, on behalf of the Catholic Church in our country, a sincere tribute of love for all the mothers of Nicaragua, and in particular to recognize how many hav ...
• 31 May 2012
  MISSIONARY INTENTION - "That Christians in Europe may rediscover their true identity and participate with greater enthusiasm in the proclamation of the and participate with more enthusiasm in Gospel" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for June 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In recent decades the countries of ancient Christian tradition in Europe are undergoing a severe crisis of identity. At a political level the demand was to eradicate Europe from its Christi ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Gikongoro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 28, 2012 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Philippe Rukamba, Bishop of Butare, as Apostolic Administrator sede vacant et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese of G ...