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9 October 2014
EUROPE/SPAIN - "Now it is not possible to stop us": campaign against child mortality
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Every day 17,000 children worldwide die from diseases which could be avoided if vaccinated, if there were clean water, adequate food or mosquito nets. To cope with this emergency, the UNICEF Anda ...
9 October 2014
AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - "May the elections on 12 October bear positive fruits" hope the Bishops
Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) hopes that the elections to be held on October 12 in Sao Tomé and Principe is an opportunity to strengthen the co-existence of the popula ...
9 October 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - The children of a school take position against separated classes, based on religion
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The problem related to a private nursery school in the "City of 6 October", municipality of the governorate of Guizeh, where the institutes's management had decided to gather Christian pupils i ...
9 October 2014
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Orphans who survived Ebola are marginalized for fear of witchcraft and black magic
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - In West Africa there are about 7,200 people infected with Ebola and deaths exceed 3,330. In addition to the collapse of the health system and economic development of these countries, there is t ...
9 October 2014
ASIA/SYRIA - Father Jallouf Hanna has been released
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf OFM, the Franciscan parish priest kidnapped on the night of Sunday 5and Monday, 6 October by a group of armed militants of the jihadist faction Jabhat al-Nusra has been relea ...
9 October 2014
ASIA/INDIA - The Jesuits denounce: "600 attacks against religious minorities: stop to violence"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal has been launched to the central government and the governments of several Indian states in order to adopt "urgent measures to put an end to the orchestrated campaign, motivate ...
9 October 2014
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Strong commitment of the Diocese of Quilmes against human trafficking and related crimes
Quilmes (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Carlos José Tissera, Bishop of Quilmes, will celebrate today a Mass in the Cathedral for the victims of human trafficking. The celebration, which is held every second Thursday of the month ...
8 October 2014
ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 5, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Markus Nur Widipranoto as National Director of the Pontifical Mi ...
8 October 2014
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Church launches 100 days of preparation for the Pope's visit
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - There will be 100 days of deep spiritual preparation, with Masses, vigils, works of charity, during which every believer is invited to make a gesture of "repentance": is an initiative launched b ...
8 October 2014
ASIA/CHINA - Msg. Giovanni Battista Wang Jin’s particular commitment to priestly vocations
Yuci (Agenzia Fides) - On September 23, His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Battista Wang Jin, Bishop of Yuci (Yütze) in Shanxi province (Mainland China) died at the age of 90, after a long illness. The Prelate was born on April 22, ...
8 October 2014
ASIA/CHINA - Mgr. Giovanni Chrysostom Lan Shi, an apostle of the youth
Xiushidu (Agenzia Fides) - On September 21, His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Chrysostom Lan Shi, Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province (Mainland China) died at the age of 89. He was born in 1925 in ...
8 October 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Auxiliary Bishop of Medellin: "We cannot get used to violence"
Medellín (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a week after the violent death of Father Andrés Duque Echeverry, stabbed at the exit of the underground (see Fides 06/10/2014), Fides Agency received the testimony of His Exc. Mgr. ...
8 October 2014
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Free vaccination campaign for children
Posadas (Agenzia Fides) - During the fifth week of vaccination against rubella, polio and measles, the Argentine region of Misiones recorded a 55% coverage, amounting to 56,034 vaccines given to children between 1 to 4 y ...
8 October 2014
ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscan priest kidnapped after he had appealed to the Islamic Court
Knayeh (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf OFM was kidnapped along with his parishioners after his recent visit to the Islamic Court, where he had gone to report harassment and abuse suffered in recent weeks from the ...
8 October 2014
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Despite chaos and violence in Bozoum, schools have reopened and the pastoral year has started
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We have reopened schools and resumed pastoral activities, even if the situation has not fully stabilized", says to Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary, pastor in Bozoum in t ...
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