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25 September 2013
AFRICA/SUDAN - No food for 10,000 displaced people in 18 months in West Darfur
El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people in refugee camps in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, are suffering a severe food crisis and live in conditions of total insecurity. One of the elders of the camp of El ...
25 September 2013
AMERICA/PERU - Two thousand victims rescued from human trafficking, 42% are minors
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand victims (42% of whom are minors) of human trafficking have been rescued by the police since June 2011 to date, according to data released by the General Secretariat of the Mi ...
25 September 2013
ASIA/JORDAN - A library for the University of Madaba
Madaba (Agenzia Fides) - Among the projects that the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has decided to support in the near future, according to the program already foreshadowed for the second half of 2013, there is also the ...
25 September 2013
ASIA/SYRIA – Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo: here are the figures of the Syrian disaster
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The figures of the Syrian catastrophe do not stop the devastating number of people who die and are wounded. In a note sent to Fides Agency, Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart, Metropolitan of Ale ...
25 September 2013
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bishop of Bangassou: "The Central African Republic is drifting away. The UN has to intervene"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Republic is now a Country adrift , with the entire population trapped like in a concentration camp, hostage of the Seleka government in turn adrift", writes Mgr. Juan Jose Ag ...
24 September 2013
EUROPE/POLAND - A family of people to help future priests and consecrated persons in mission countries
Niepokalanów (Agenzia Fides) - "Adopt missionary seminarians" is the slogan of the initiative that will start in Poland on 1 October, the feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Patroness of the Missions, in order to p ...
24 September 2013
AFRICA/DR CONGO - First day of school for 3500 pupils in Goma
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflicts in North Kivu have delayed the opening of the school year in Goma. Recently, however, activities of the Don Bosco Centre in Goma-Ngangi have started, as reported in a statemen ...
24 September 2013
EUROPE/SPAIN - The Year of Faith: Catechesis of the Bishop of Palencia for the internet
Palencia (Agenzia Fides) – There are more than 500 people who follow the catechesis of the Bishop of Palencia (Spain), His Exc. Mgr. Esteban Escudero, through the internet. The Bishop in fact collaborates with the prog ...
24 September 2013
ASIA/CHINA - Sacrifice and dedication up to martyrdom: six priests ordained on the feast of St. Matthew
Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – To be willing to sacrifice and dedication up to martyrdom to defend the Church: with these wishes the community of the Diocese of Han Dan (Yong Nian) has welcomed 6 new priests who were ordain ...
24 September 2013
ASIA/TURKEY – There are 22 religious minority schools. At the time of the Ottoman Empire there were more than 6 thousand
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The schools belonging to minority communities in the Turkish territory are now only 22, while in the last years of the Ottoman Empire there were more than six thousand. The striking numerical dif ...
24 September 2013
ASIA/THAILAND - A quarter of the Country's provinces are flooded: flood alert
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Since July, over 600,000 Thais have been affected by severe floods and more than a quarter of the provinces have been flooded. Local authorities have launched an alert for landslides and initi ...
24 September 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Do not take advantage of the tragedy": the Bishop of Córdoba asks authorities for transparency
Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Córdoba, His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Patiño Leal, has called on the authorities and politicians of different sectors, not to take advantage of the families affected by t ...
24 September 2013
AFRICA/KENYA – Attack in Nairobi: A Bishop invites to pray also via twitter
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic bishops of Kenya condemn the Westgate terrorist attack in Nairobi and pray for the victims in a statement signed by Bishop Philip Anyolo, Bishop of Homabay and Vice President of K ...
24 September 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christians: Prayer and protest after the bombs in the church of Peshawar
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer vigils in churches, protest in the streets, closure of schools and shops in mourning. This is how Pakistani Christians have expressed bitterness and shock after the explosion of two bomb ...
24 September 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Missionaries: "Do not exploit the attacks on Christians "
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a political game in Pakistan that tries to exploit the attacks suffered by Christians: this is denounced by the missionaries contacted by Fides Agency, in the aftermath of the massacr ...
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