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13 July 2013
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "National Dialogue": Bishops' appeal at the conclusion of the 100th Assembly
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a national context marked by deep divisions, "the Church promotes national dialogue with deep democratic spirit. We are all involved in building the good of the country. And we all have to so ...
13 July 2013
AFRICA/GHANA - The Right to health care in the Constitution has to be included: the Catholic Campaign
Accra (Agenzia Fides) – To include the right to health care in the new Constitution: is a national campaign launched officially by the National Catholic Secretariat, the executive body of the Episcopal Conference, on t ...
13 July 2013
AMERICA/PERU - "Pain becomes holiness": the contribution of the sick and the elderly for missions
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "From Faith and silence, pain becomes Holiness": this is the title of the
"National Day of the sick and elderly missionary", organized for tomorrow, Sunday, July 14, by the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
13 July 2013
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Conversion of children, religious education, use of the term "Allah": the Christians new challenges
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia are all interested in three issues that currently involve the political and social life, all related to religious freedom: the change of children’s religion; Islami ...
12 July 2013
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We have hit rock bottom but we have to try to raise the country together", says Mgr. Emiliani after the murder of the journalist
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a message to journalists not to tell the truth, we need to look into the matter really well, because what happened is extremely painful and shows that in the Country there is a d ...
12 July 2013
AFRICA/BENIN - "The Virgin Mary is the sign of Catholicism in Benin"
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Here, thank God, there is a Catholic instinct of openness to the Madonna", says Fr. Juan Diego M. Gay, Franciscan Missionary of the Immaculate in an interview sent to Fides Agency on the initia ...
12 July 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Ramadan of justice and reconciliation: message of the pro-dialogue "Silsilah" Center
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Month of Ramadan is "a special time to renew friendship and solidarity between Christians and Muslims": says the Message issued during the month of Ramadan by the Center for inte ...
12 July 2013
ASIA/LEBANON - Survey: impatience towards Syrian refugees increases
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - 54 per cent of the Lebanese hopes that the borders of their own Country are barred, due to the influx of new refugees from Syria. As much as 90 percent of them prefer to see the freedom of unrest ...
12 July 2013
AMERICA/PANAMA - "Defender who does not defend", scandal in the country, the Church's intervention
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Justice and Peace of the Archdiocese of Panama issued a statement on the charges brought against the "Defensoria del Pueblo" (Institution which should collect the allegati ...
11 July 2013
AFRICA/EGYPT - A Coptic commission to outline the criticisms concerning the Provisional Constitution
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has appointed a commission of jurists and Christian politicians to draw up a memorandum of critical observations on the provisional Constitution. This was confirmed to F ...
11 July 2013
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Disarmament operations of the rebels start off slowly
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is estimated that in the Country there are about 25,000 rebels. Last week, according to local media, a hundred were disarmed. At this rate, it will take 5 years to disarm them all", says to F ...
11 July 2013
AMERICA/HONDURAS - More violence in the Country, national mourning for the murder of a well-known journalist
San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "The case of Anibal Barrow is not the only case because there are so many others that happen every day", said Mgr. Romulo Emiliani, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro Sula, afte ...
11 July 2013
AFRICA/CONGO DR - A priest presents cassava bread to reduce imports of grain from abroad
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 85% of bread made of wheat flour and 15% of cassava was presented on July 8 in Kimpese (in the province of Bas-Congo) by its inventor, Fr. Charles Kusika.
According to the priest, who runs a p ...
11 July 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - "While murders continue, the government reacts slowly," the voice of the church
Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "While disappearances and deaths linked to drug trafficking continue, the main characteristics of the strategy of the federal government advance slowly against organized crime and above all wha ...
11 July 2013
ASIA/INDONESIA - Religious tolerance under the UN lens in Indonesia
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - What is the status of respect for human rights and religious freedom in Indonesia? Is there an atmosphere of religious intolerance? These are issues that these days (in the July 8-26 session) ar ...
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