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15 December 2012
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Radical Buddhists attack the churches: Christians call for religious freedom
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Bewilderment in the Christian communities in Sri Lanka after the recent incidents of violence perpetrated by monks and lay radical Buddhists: as reported to Fides, Christians renew the governm ...
15 December 2012
ASIA/IRAQ - Archbishop Sako says Premier al-Maliki is right: the West must not finance the flight of Christians
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The countries of Europe and the West "should help Iraqi Christians to remain in their homeland rather than investing resources in assistance programs that actually encourage their escape." The Ch ...
15 December 2012
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in the diocese of Gulu: learn to "be with Him" in order to be his missionaries
Arua (Agenzia Fides) - "What kind of priest do I want to be? A priest who testifies to Christ, because he believes, loves, and he shows it in his action and life? " Are some questions that Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefe ...
14 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Russian-American joint ultimatum to Assad? We urgently need a "political solution"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Russia and the United States are getting ready to order a joint ultimatum to President Bashar Assad through the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi, in order for him to ...
14 December 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Pontifical inter-diocesan Seminary "St. Joseph" in Alwaye
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 9, 2012 appointed Rev. P. Iames Prasad, of the diocesan clergy of Punalur (India) as Rector ...
14 December 2012
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Rector of the inter-diocesan Major Seminary "Holy Spirit" in Dhaka
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 25 April 2012 appointed Rev. P. Emmanuel Kanon Rozario, of the diocesan clergy of Rajshahi (Bangl ...
14 December 2012
ASIA/NEPAL - Christians contest the census of the government
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Nepal have rejected the latest figures released by the Government of Nepal on the religious composition of the population in the Himalayan country. The 2011 Census Report, publis ...
14 December 2012
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the priests, religious men and women of Gulu "In your lives, I read the history of the Church in this land: a history of much faith, love and sacrifice"
Arua (Agenzia Fides) - Two meetings were held this morning, December 14, by Cardinal Fernando Filoni reserved for priests, religious men and women of the ecclesiastical province of Gulu, as part of his pastoral visit to ...
14 December 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - New support to Mgr. Casaldáliga from the Chamber of Deputies
Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) - The Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil filed a motion of support for the Spanish Bishop Mgr. Pedro Casaldáliga, who last week had to leave the village of Sao Felix ...
14 December 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The Christmas charitable activities of the Catholic Youth: to make experience of the encounter with Jesus and strengthen the faith
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The children of the poor families of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Hong Kong have anticipated the Christmas season by sharing the joy of the birth of Jesus with the young of the Catholic ...
14 December 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian Churches: no to the boycott of the constitutional referendum
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Christian Churches in Egypt will not support the boycott of the Referendum on the draft of the Constitution - scheduled on 15 and 22 December - at the center of political and so ...
14 December 2012
AFRICA/KENYA - "Reconciliation passes through respect for differences," say the Bishops in the 2013 elections
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has committed herself so that the March 2013 elections are conducted peacefully and rejects being accused of having taken sides in the 2007-2008 post-election confrontation. ...
13 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Violence and death in the "Valley of the Christians": 150 thousand faithful in terror
Tartus (Agenzia Fides) - About 150 thousand Christians live in fear in more than 40 villages in the so-called "Valley of the Christians" in western Syria. The valley ("Wadi al Nasara"), a historical stronghold of the Syr ...
13 December 2012
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 300 000 Nicaraguan children work instead of going to school
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - In Nicaragua, the reduction of the rate of child labor is still very high. The report of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides) shows that in the country 42.8% o ...
13 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Bishop of Latakia: "Christians targeted by radical Islamists and bandits"
Latakia (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Latakia, Tartus and Tal khalakh, and in the "Valley of the Christians", "there is chaos: Islamist militias and criminal gangs are taking advantage of the situation of general inst ...
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