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10 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Christian Armenian singer arrested by the secret services has been released
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Sam Ghannoum, a 28 year-old young Christian Armenian singer, who was arrested on October 15 by the Syrian secret services after his criticism to the regime, was released and returned to his famil ...
10 December 2012
VATICAN - Pope: the encounter with the living Jesus Christ "is the decisive force which will transform the American continent"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Secularism and different religious groups are spreading at all latitudes, giving rise to many problems. Education and the promotion of a culture of life is urgently important ... How can o ...
10 December 2012
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The tragic death of the Apostolic Nuncio in the Ivory Coast, Mgr. Madtha, a man of peace
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Ivory Coast, His Exc. Mgr. Ambrose Madtha, died on Saturday, December 8 in a car accident in the west of the Country. The car carrying Mgr. Madtha was involved in an ...
10 December 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Quintana calls for dialogue, but emphasizes that air and clean water is a right for all
Freirina (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Copiapó, His Exc. Mgr. Gaspar Quintana, visited the Freirina community after the clashes between the population and the security guards of the company Agrosuper, following the pe ...
10 December 2012
ASIA/IRAQ - Father Dall'Oglio welcomed in the monastic community which began in Sulaymanya, in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulaymanya (Agenzia Fides) - Father Paolo Dall'Oglio SJ, founder of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, after his expulsion from Syria was welcomed into the newly founded monastery of Deir Maryam el Adhra, which beg ...
10 December 2012
ASIA - "Asian Christians, the icon of God’s love": the challenge of evangelization in the Assembly of the FABC
Xan Loc (Agenzia Fides) - For Christians who live in a diverse and complex context such as Asia, the challenges are "to enter into people's lives; remove barriers, build bridges of dialogue; live the core values of faith ...
10 December 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of the Immaculate Conception testifies the great Marian devotion of the Chinese Catholics
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The dedication of a parish, receiving the sacrament of Confirmation, the meeting of Catholic Women and many other initiatives took place on the day of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, ...
10 December 2012
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Cardinal Sarr remembers the Caliph of Tidjaniyya, "man of respect, man of God"
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "A man of relations, a man of God, whose wisdom revealed he was profoundly inhabited by God": said Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar, remembering in a message sent to Fides, Serig ...
7 December 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - Church is concerned for the violence in Freirina
Freirina (Agenzia Fides) - From the first hours of Thursday, December 6th incidents of violence in the city of Freirina in the south valley of the diocese Chilean Copiapó were reported. According to the note of the Epis ...
7 December 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Missionary wounded: Taliban in Punjab are suspected
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Birgitta Almeby, the 72 year-old Christian missionary, victim of an assassination attempt on 3December in Lahore (see Fides 4/12/012) is unconscious and is in the "Jinnha" hospital in Lahore. Pas ...
7 December 2012
VATICAN - From 9 to 12 December the Congress on the Church in America: problems and challenges faced by the mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Congress promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (Cal) and the Knights of Columbus in collaboration with the Institute for Guadalupani Studies, from December 9 to 12 t ...
7 December 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - Right to education denied to 61 million boys and girls who do not attend school
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world 61 million children do not attend school, 31 million live in Africa and 53% are girls. These statistics were published by the Spanish Entreculturas, on the occasion of the Internatio ...
7 December 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal of the Assyrian Christians in the Syrian opposition: "Stop Salafi groups"
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to stop the "Jubhat Al Nosra" Salafist group that is spreading terror in Mesopotamia: is the appeal launched by the new "National Coalition of the revolution and opposition" (CNS) ...
7 December 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The negotiation of Kampala must not compromise national sovereignty": Bishops’ warning
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "An agreement that compromises national sovereignty is unacceptable," warn the members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a message iss ...
7 December 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - Microcredit for Haitian women in difficulty, but creative and tenacious
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – Considered the main victims of exclusion as well as the campesinos and children, the women of Haiti have creativity and thanks to their work they support more than 43% of single-parent ...
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