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2 October 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Members of the third delegation of victims set off for Havana to meet with FARC representatives
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, October 1st, the United Nations, the Catholic Church and the National University published the names of members of the third delegation of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, th ...
2 October 2014
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The priority for the Auxiliary Bishop of Reyes: "Working to be a single Christian community"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Creating a sense of belonging, to work to be a single Christian community" is the main challenge for His Exc. Mgr. Waldo Rubén Barrinuevo Ramírez, C.Ss.R., Auxiliary Bishop of the Apostolic Vica ...
2 October 2014
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Jamaica and children who are detained demand attention: Mission Month is a unique opportunity
Sidney (Agenzia Fides) - Among the various initiatives of the Australian Church, this year Catholic Mission Australia focuses its attention on Jamaica, which has the second highest rate in the world regarding deaths due ...
2 October 2014
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Initiatives on behalf of "Justice and Peace" for reconciliation between Congolese and Rwandans
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan Commissions "Justice and Peace" of Bukavu (capital of South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) and Cyangugu (Rwanda) have launched some initiatives for reconciliation betw ...
2 October 2014
ASIA/TURKEY - Documents of the Turkish Institute of History on the Armenian question online
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The research and documentary material of the Turkish Institute of History (Türk Tarih Kurumu, TTK) regarding the "Armenian question" will soon be accessible via the internet on the website www.e ...
2 October 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations are underway in the Archdiocese of Goa for the exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier, who will be exposed for the veneration of the faithful from 22 November 2014 to 4 Ja ...
2 October 2014
AFRICA/NIGER - The Bishops' message to the Muslim community: "May the example of Abraham bear fruits of mutual respect"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "When those who kill in God's name are engulfed in the horror of terror, we address urgent prayers so that through the example of Abraham, who humbly allows to be guided by the will of God, diver ...
2 October 2014
ASIA/SYRIA - Massacre of children in Homs; three Christians kidnapped in the province of Hassaké
Homs (Agenzia Fides) - At least 41 children were killed due to the double attack carried out yesterday that devastated the area surrounding a school in Homs, in the urban area controlled by government forces. The massacr ...
2 October 2014
ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "With the Rosary, we will overcome the difficulties"
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Pray the Rosary incessantly and with faith: is what the Apostolic Vicar of Nepal, His Exc. Mgr. Paul Simick, said to the faithful at the beginning of October, in his message for the month of M ...
1 October 2014
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Family Week in Guayaquil, wealth and renewal of society
Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "Family Week" is underway in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. Organised for the first time by the Commission for the Family Pastoral of the Archdiocese, the Week takes place from September 29 to ...
1 October 2014
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Division is not from God": in march for peace and unity of the country
Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - "Our intention is to make people understand that we as Venezuelans cannot live divided, division is not from God, it is of the devil": this are the words with which His Exc. Mgr. Mariano ...
1 October 2014
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Jesuit: "A network of solidarity against the network of terror"
Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "The network of Islamic jihadism and its international implications should be kept under strict control in the southern Philippines" says to Fides Agency the Jesuit Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, Director ...
1 October 2014
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Initiatives and projects for 1400 child workers in Honduras and Nicaragua
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,400 Nicaraguan and Honduran children who were working on the streets to help their families, have been reintegrated into the education system through a project sponsored by the Europ ...
1 October 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Closure of the professorship named after Mother Teresa
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The academic authorities in India have announced the closure of the chair of teaching in "Health, education and social work", named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in the "Indira Gandhi Natio ...
1 October 2014
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Authorities have threatened to close down another Catholic radio
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The South Sudanese government has threatened to close down the Catholic Church’s "Voice of Hope" FM in Wau, in the west of the Country. According to the Catholic Radio Network (CRN), Western Bahr ...
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