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21 October 2014
ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans prepare the Year for consecrated life
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A Mission "in the Franciscan style" that passes through India; a special campaign to eradicate violence against women; a series of pastoral initiatives and of evangelization in different India ...
21 October 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - 2000 children have been killed or maimed between 2006 and 2014
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The increase of children who disappear or are recruited by criminal gangs in Mexico and are killed or maimed continues to be alarming. This is denounced by the Inter-American Commission on ...
21 October 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The warring parties recognize their responsibilities in the civil war, "an important step for peace"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope this is a first concrete and decisive step for the cease-fire first and then for true peace", says to Fides Agency Sister Elena Baratti, a Comboni missionary from Juba, capital of South Su ...
21 October 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Pilgrimages in the footsteps of the Holy Family
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of representatives and pilgrims from the Philippines took part in the celebration in honor of the Holy Family held on Tuesday, October 21 at the Coptic Museum, in the historic part of ...
21 October 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - When you do not respect the right of even one person, it jeopardizes the right of all
Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to look for students in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, and punish the guilty: this is what the Secretary of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), His Exc. Mgr. Eugenio Lira Rugarcía says to t ...
20 October 2014
VATICAN - Pope Paul VI, "a staunch supporter of the mission ad gentes"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the solemn celebration in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday 19 October for the closure of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis recited the Angelus prayer in the prese ...
20 October 2014
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Rector of the "John Paul II" Major Seminary, in the diocese of Gitega
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Martin Sinumvayaha of the clergy of the Diocese of Ngozi as Rect ...
20 October 2014
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A cassava field transformed into an ebola treatment center
Bo (Agenzia Fides) - A few weeks ago it was a cassava field. Today it is a gleaming tented city made up of four huge tents surrounded by smaller tents and brick-built buildings, intersected by orange fences and dotted wi ...
20 October 2014
ASIA/VIETNAM - The Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh city: prayer and hope for the Vatican-Vietnam diplomatic ties
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung, strengthens our hopes in the future to see full diplomatic relations between the Holy Se ...
20 October 2014
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Violence increases more and more and families are the most affected
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We see that the violence increases more and more (...), the violence we are currently experiencing is even more brutal between security forces and organized crime": these are the worrying ...
20 October 2014
ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Laham: 4 thousand displaced Iraqi Christians all want to emigrate to the West
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - There are already three thousand Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain who have fled due to the offensive of the jihadists and have found refuge in Jordan, and in the next few ...
20 October 2014
AMERICA/CHILE - A hundred thousand on a pilgrimage for the family to the shrine of the first Chilean Saint
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - With the Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago of Chile, His Exc. Mgr. Galo Fernandez on Saturday, October 18, the 24th pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Teresa of the An ...
20 October 2014
AFRICA/LIBIA - Elements of the Islamic State and Boko Haram are in Libya, says the Prime Minister
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya there are both elements of the so-called Caliphate or Islamic State or (ISIL/ISIS or Daesh in Arabic) and elements of the Nigerian Boko Haram group. This was stated by the Libyan Prime ...
20 October 2014
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Fair, free and transparent" elections, but not everyone agrees
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "International observers have described the elections as 'fair, free and transparent' but some groups of local observers do not share this point of view" say to Fides Agency sources of the local ...
20 October 2014
ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian community prays for ailing Patriarch
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Prayers continue to pour in for the recovery of Archbishop Mesrob II Matufyan, the Armenian Orthodox patriarch in Turkey who had to withdraw from the duties of the patriarchate due to his illne ...
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