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13 November 2013
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwandan military deployed 3 km from Goma, civil society denounces
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Rwandan military have entered Congolese territory where they are lined up 3 km from Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This was revealed in a note sent to F ...
13 November 2013
ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October, His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu Guandong, Bishop Emeritus of the Apostolic Prefecture of Yixian (Yihsien), in Hebei Province (Mainland China) returned to the Father's house, at the age of 94 ...
13 November 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - "Ad interim" government of the Syrian opposition: Christians, excluded, protest
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian members of the Syrian National Coalition - the Syrian opposition groups recognized last year as the sole legitimate representative of th ...
13 November 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Incalculable material damage, more than 4 million people devastated by Hayan: NGOs mobilize
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many humanitarian organizations that are mobilizing to help the people of the Philippines, also Manos Unidas, engaged in the Asian country for over 25 years, together with the organizat ...
13 November 2013
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian deputies open an investigation into the management of oil
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of the Federation of Nigeria has begun an investigation regarding the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state agency that handles foreign sales of Ni ...
13 November 2013
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Year of Faith: "We must all work for conversion"
Granada (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to re-awaken as a Catholic Church and continue to work in the coming years to become a community that transforms reality, we must stop evil, injustice and sin, in order to reign in the ...
12 November 2013
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Catholic Church invited to the consultations on the constitutional reform
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) will participate in the consultations on the constitutional reform, announced yesterday, 11 November, by the Secretary General of CEN, Auxiliary Bisho ...
12 November 2013
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The family at the center of the Church's pastoral plan for the next five years
Madang (Agenzia Fides) - Listening to the needs and perspectives that will be raised at the next Synod of Bishops on the Family, proclaimed by Pope Francis, the Church in Papua New Guinea intends to put the family at the ...
12 November 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Double the mortality rate of people with disabilities compared to the rest of the population affected by the typhoon
Iloilo City (Agenzia Fides) - An alarming fact is added to the very serious situation that the Philippine population is experiencing due to the violent typhoon Hayan. Unfortunately people with disabilities are those most ...
12 November 2013
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholics and Anglicans together for peace in the Great Lakes
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The joint campaign of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC, which brings together the Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda) an ...
12 November 2013
AFRICA/SUDAN - 7000 inhabitants in South Darfur do not have drinking water and basic services
Adila (Agenzia Fides) - More than 7,000 residents in Mazroub, north of Adila, South Darfur, are short of basic services. According to information from local Radio Dabanga there is no doctor in the entire area. Patients o ...
12 November 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Evangelization in a context of violence" at the center of the reflection of the Bishops’ Assembly
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are doing our work of evangelization in a more violent context compared to other States and Monsignor Miguel (Mgr. Miguel Patiño Velazquez, Bishop of Apatzingán) is perhaps in the most ...
12 November 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Mortar shells on the center of Damascus: children, civilians and churches affected
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Mortar shells damaged the Primary Christian School St. John Damascene yesterday in the district of Al-Qassaa in Damascus, killing 5 children and wounding 27 others. Another rocket hit a school ...
12 November 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: novena of national prayer for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful Filipinos will carry out, in all the churches of the nation, a special novena of prayer for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (locally called "Yolanda"), to ask God for protection and su ...
12 November 2013
AFRICA - Typhoon in the Philippines: solidarity in Africa springs into action
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The tragedy that struck the Philippines, devastated by typhoon Haiyan, has aroused emotion in Africa, particularly in Libya where there is a strong community of Filipino immigrants. As reported in ...
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