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10 January 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church also participates in the campaign for disarmament in the capital
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Catholic Church participates in a concrete way to the initiatives regarding the research of peace and tranquility in the capital," said the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto ...
10 January 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - A Christian community trapped and completely worn out in the north of Aleppo
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - About a thousand Christians among Greek-Orthodoxs and Roman Catholics are trapped in the small village of Yaakoubieh, all Christian, in the north of Aleppo. They are completely worn out, with no ...
10 January 2013
AFRICA/MALI-Clashes between army and rebels, while in the capital protests continue
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that there were clashes between last night and the early morning of today, around the area of Konna, between the army and rebels, but the authorities havenot given precise information ab ...
10 January 2013
AMERICA/MEXICO - Worrying situation of poverty among Mexican children and adolescents
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, to be a child, teenager means being exposed to the risk of poverty, because of the discrimination suffered by age. According to estimates by CONEVAL-UNICEF (2010), in the country, ...
9 January 2013
VATICAN - 150th Anniversary of Pauline-Marie Jaricot’s death-the Servant of God
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) The French Episcopal Conference declared in 2012, the Jubilee Year in honor of the servant of God, the venerable Pauline, who died 150 years ago in Lyon, on January 9, 1862.
2012 was also t ...
9 January 2013
ASIA/HONG KONG - The Oratory: testimony of the commitment of the children of Don Bosco in the formation of the youth
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian Oratory Cheung Chau Don Bosco Oratory, which celebrated half a century of foundation in Hong Kong, is the testimony of the continuous and renewed commitment in the formative servi ...
9 January 2013
ASIA/INDIA - A group of children at school under a bridge, despite the severe temperatures
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In this period climatic temperatures are more severe than usual in India. In the north of the country 100 people have died from the cold. In this cold climate, with freezing temperatures, a gr ...
9 January 2013
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: "A Jubilee Year, freedom and reconciliation, for Myanmar"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - What has just begun is "a jubilee year for Myanmar," in fact "after 50 years of suffocating darkness, today a bright light shines in the beautiful country of Burma": is what is said in a message ...
9 January 2013
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In California, one child out of 5 lives below the poverty line, the phenomenon is on the rise
Sacramento (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the State of California will have to face serious financial difficulties if they do not just focus on the growing phenomenon of poverty among children. This is what emerges ...
9 January 2013
AMERICA/CHILE - For the Jesuits in the Mapuche Mission "we must resolve long-standing problems for lasting peace"
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "From Tirúa, the Jesuits and their collaborators who walk in solidarity with the Mapuche community, want to again express the total rejection of violence and reaffirm their commitment to dialogu ...
9 January 2013
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The priest of Rwandan origins expelled in August returns to Zambia
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Viateur Banyangandora, the priest of Rwandan origins expelled by the Zambian authorities in early August (see Fides 07/08/2012), returned to the country on January 7. Fr. Banyangandora was we ...
9 January 2013
ASIA/JORDAN - The director of Caritas: revolt in the camp of Zaatari, devastated by the snowstorm; to escape the refugees chose to return to Syria
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The storms of snow, wind and freezing rain that struck the Hashemite Kingdom have had devastating effects on the refugee camp of Zaatari, in the Jordanian desert, where 50 thousand refugees who fl ...
9 January 2013
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - WFP condemns the looting of its food warehouses
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of tons of food aid have disappeared from the warehouses of the World Food Programme (WFP) in at least three locations in the Central African Republic conquered by the rebel coalition Se ...
9 January 2013
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Clarification on the properties of the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in TIPNIS
Beni (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, in a television program broadcast at the end of December 2012, stated that the Vicariate of Beni is the owner of a farm of 5,000 hectares situat ...
8 January 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Nassar: "In Damascus, Palestinian refugees forced exodus, just like the Holy Family"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – During the Christmas period "it is not uncommon these days to see Palestinian families wandering the streets of Damascus. Parents carrying their children, followed by older children carrying ...
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