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9 November 2013
ASIA/JORDAN - The Director of Caritas: the refugee camp in Zaatari will become a "provisional city"
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The biggest refugee camp hosting Syrian refugees, displaced in the Jordanian desert, is about to become a "temporary city". This is confirmed to Fides Agency by Wael Suleiman, Director of Caritas ...
9 November 2013
EUROPE - The new website of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences on-line
Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - A new, modern means of communication and analysis: this is how the new website of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) presents itself on-line at www.ccee.eu. The website was p ...
8 November 2013
ASIA/CHINA – To leave the congregation to go to the suburbs: bicycle pilgrimage for 37 nuns
Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – To leave one’s congregation and go to the outskirts of the diocese to give witness to faith, to evangelize and to consolidate the union of the community: these are the objectives that drove ...
8 November 2013
ASIA/IRAN - President Rohani: Iran and the Holy See together in the fight against extremism
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian President Hassan Rohani relaunches dialogue between the Islamic and the Christian world, and hopes for an alliance between Iran and the Holy See regarding the major issues that shake huma ...
8 November 2013
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A second agreement has been reached, the Church proposes "a policy of reconciliation for definitive peace"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church believes that in order to achieve true reconciliation and authentic peace in Colombia "one must go forward on issues such as the equitable distribution of land and achieve aut ...
8 November 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Yolanda aggravates the disastrous situation of 4 million people already affected by the earthquake
Bohol (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the people of Bohol severely damaged by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit the entire area on October 15 (see Fides 18/10/2013) continues to worsen. As reported to Fides Agency ...
8 November 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - An "inclusive agreement" for peace in the southern Philippines: religious leaders meet with the government
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – To explore all possible ways and solutions to achieve peace; to promote an "inclusive" agreement, which takes into account all the components of religious, ethnic and cultural needs of ...
8 November 2013
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA- The "Republican Pact" signed in Bangui, drawn up in Rome in September
Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - The "Republican Pact" was signed yesterday, November 7, in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic by the President of the Republic, Michel Djotodia, the Prime Minister, Nicolas Ntianga ...
8 November 2013
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – The Mozambican crisis worries neighboring countries; Zimbabwe threatens to intervene
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Mozambique is facing a problematic security crisis after the former rebels of RENAMO denounced the agreements of Rome in 1992 and have taken up arms (see Fides 22/10/2013). Although so far the mi ...
8 November 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: clashes at the power plant. Aleppo at risk of environmental catastrophe
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "For three days there has been no electricity in the center of Aleppo. There have been clashes at the power plant in al-Harrarieh, and there is very dangerous situation because hazardous material ...
8 November 2013
AMERICA/CHILE – Mgr. Ezzati re-elected President of the CECh; waiting for the final message of the Assembly
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The 106th Plenary Assembly of the Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh) has re-elected the Archbishop of Santiago, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello as President for a further period of three ...
7 November 2013
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Archbishop of Managua’s appeal to prevent dengue
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "It is really sad to read news that a person, especially a young person, a child dies due to dengue hemorrhagic fever", said the Archbishop of Managua, Msgr. Leopoldo Brenes, in a statement sent ...
7 November 2013
ASIA - The nations of Central Asia: repatriate compatriots who fight in Syria
Almaty ( Agenzia Fides) - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, three of the major nations of Central Asia, are studying ways and solutions to repatriate compatriots fighting in Syria and to block the flow of Islamist a ...
7 November 2013
ASIA/INDIA - A Bishop reiterates the "right to catechism" for children
Cuddapah ( Agenzia Fides) - Among the many rights to be granted to children, there is also the "right to catechism", that is to say the right to Christian education in order to grow in faith: this is emphasized by His Ex ...
7 November 2013
AMERICA - The Meeting of Guadalupe closes the Year of Faith in the continent
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of "Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization in the Americas will open on November 16 at the premises of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, with a ...
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