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7 December 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong urges newly graduates of the Holy Spirit Seminary to be evangelizers
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Put into practice what you have learned doing the mission of evangelization, to respond to the Year of Faith": is the encouragement that Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, addressed ...
7 December 2012
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Thousands of children are working in the diamond mines to survive
Koidu (Agenzia Fides) - In Sierra Leone diamonds helped fuel the civil war that plagued the country from 1991 to 2002, now they are promoting economic growth to some extent, but at the same time attract in mines thousand ...
7 December 2012
AFRICA/LIBYA - Christmas carols in different languages: a tradition of the Church in Libya
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a joy to be singing together waiting for Christmas" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, where this afternoon the small Catholic c ...
7 December 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ahiara
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 7, 2012, appointed Rev. Peter Ebere Okpaleke of the clergy of Awka, Judge of the Inter-Diocesan Tribunal of the Ecclesiastical Province in Onitsha a ...
6 December 2012
VATICAN - Pope's appeal "regarding the grave humanitarian crisis" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A new appeal for Congo was launched by Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the general audience on Wednesday, December 5. These are his words: " Troubling news continues to arrive regarding the ...
6 December 2012
EUROPE/POLAND - Prayer Vigil in Jasna Gora for the evangelization of the world
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 people attended the vigil of prayer at the Shrine of Jasna Góra, in Poland, for the evangelization of the world (see Fides 30/11/2012), which was held on December 1. Thousands of ...
6 December 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Wen Zhou consecrated a new church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which will be "a source of evangelization"
Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "May the light of Christ illuminate this temple of God," after the solemn invocation by His Exc. Mgr. Zhu Wei Fang, Bishop of Wen Zhou, all the lights of the new church lit up dedicated to the ...
6 December 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Deaths and missing persons after the typhoon Bopha increase
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of missing persons, over 214 000 displaced and 238 have died in the floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Bopha, which hit the Philippines. Most of the victims were reported in the provi ...
6 December 2012
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan Emergency: violence in Jonglei State does not stop
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - For more than a year there has been humanitarian emergency in South Sudan. War, epidemics, malnutrition are some of the scourges that the population faces every day. In July, an epidemiological sur ...
6 December 2012
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops' appeal of the Middle East: Even Muslims contribute to guaranteeing the freedom and equality of their fellow Christians
Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The second Assembly of Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops of the Middle East came to an end last night, December 5, in Harissa, with the approval of two documents in which the pastoral care of the ...
6 December 2012
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "The defense of immigrants is evangelization": the Bishop of Atlanta calls for an integral reform of immigration policy
Atlanta (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Atlanta, in the North of Georgia, asked for the umpteenth time an integral reform of immigration. According to information sent to Fides Agency, His Exc. Mgr. Wilton Gregory w ...
6 December 2012
AFRICA/RDC - The first displaced are returning but violence and looting still continue
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Violence and looting in Goma still continue despite the M23 rebels promised to withdraw and every day many trucks depart to the north of the country. In a statement released by the Education Centre ...
6 December 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Irregularities in the consultation of the Tipnis have been found
Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-institutional Commission formed by members of the Catholic Church, of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FI ...
6 December 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Zaki: It is not appropriate that Church Leaders give direct indication to boycott the constitutional referendum
Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - The new Constitution that President Morsi persists in wanting to submit to a popular referendum on 15 December, "divides the Country and cannot represent the text of reference of the unity of ...
5 December 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - To grow the mustard seed of a tree in the Year of Faith: IX Seminar on Sacred Scripture
Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - "To deepen the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" was the theme of the IX Seminar of Sacred Scripture in Taiwan, held recently in the Diocese of Hsin Chu. According to the ...
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