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12 December 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Reproductive health Bill: Bishops urge politicians to respect the right to life
Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "The truth must be at the basis of the law", the nation needs a law "to affirm and protect the truth about the dignity of the human person, who has been created in the very image of God, the sancti ...
12 December 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Hanna: these are the articles of the draft of the Constitution that endanger religious freedom
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Even yesterday, during the demonstration organized by President Morsi's supporters, the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Beltagui went back to inciting the crowd against Christians, claiming that ...
11 December 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A statue of the Madonna desecrated in a parish in Faisalabad
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 November, in a Catholic church in Chak Jhumra, diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab, the destruction caused by throwing stones at the statue of the Virgin Mary brought horror, fear, dismay and ...
11 December 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Christian missionary injured moved to Sweden
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An air ambulance moved the Swedish Christian missionary Birgitta Almeby, 72 to Sweden, she was injured in a bomb attack in Lahore on December 3 (see Fides 04/12/2012). This is what Pastor Liaqat ...
11 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Vaccination campaign against measles and polio for more than 1 million children
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – To vaccinate one million and 400 thousand children against polio and measles in the country affected by armed conflict is the current goal of UNICEF. So far, over 500 000 have been reached. T ...
11 December 2012
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Goma assists victims of sexual violence in the camps for displaced persons
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are dozens of cases of sexual violence against refugee women in camps for displaced people near Goma, capital of North Kivu, province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for months di ...
11 December 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: Huiling announces the opening of a new center
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: thus Fr. Fernando Cagnin, a PIME missionary, urged the participants in the celebration for the 4 years of the establishment of the ...
11 December 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - The end of the world on December 21? Then give away your possessions to the Church
Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Punta Arenas (Chile), His Exc. Mgr. Bernardo Bastres Florence, S.D.B., faced with the concerns of those who say that next December 21 could be the end of the wo ...
11 December 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Violence in the region of Coahuila increases, the Bishop invokes for a pact to end it and calls for the application of justice
Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo, Mgr. José Raul Vera Lopez, has called for a pact to end the violence of organized crime in Coahuila and throughout Mexico, he also asked President Enriqu ...
11 December 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos: the day after the meeting of Catholic bishops with Patriarch Tawadros; Christians will vote according to their conscience in the referendum
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting scheduled for today between a delegation of Catholic Bishops and the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has been postponed to after tomorrow. The postponement is confirmed ...
11 December 2012
AFRICA/MALI - Political contrasts at the basis of the forced resignation of the Prime Minister
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A dispute between President Dioncounda Traoré, and members of the former military junta on the one hand and the Prime Minister on the other hand, led to the "forced" resignation on behalf of the ...
10 December 2012
AMERICA/CANADA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 6, 2012 appointed His Exc. Mgr. Murray Chatlain, Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith as Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas (Canada). The same Prelate was appo ...
10 December 2012
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - "Mary, help us grow in faith": thousands of faithful to the Marian pilgrimage in Cacheu
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was the usual Guinean National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Nativity in Cach ...
10 December 2012
AMERICA - About 300 000 children recruited for criminal activity in the world
New York City (Agenzia Fides) - Enrolling children in the armed forces is considered an international crime as well as a war crime. However, according to the latest report of the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) ...
10 December 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mgr. Pedro Casaldáliga threatened again because he supports the indigenous Xavante
Mato Grosso (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Pedro Casaldáliga, Bishop Prelate Emeritus of Sao Felix, was forced to leave the village of Sao Felix do Araguaia, in Brazil, due to the resurgence of threats, which he has ...
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