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23 October 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Two faithful kidnapped and killed. Patriarch Laham: "Christians are exploited in the conflict"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians were kidnapped and killed yesterday in Damascus, while a car bomb exploded last night near the church of St. Abramo, in the area of Jaramana, in the north of Damascus. The two fa ...
23 October 2012
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Popular support for the Commission "For Life and Water" in Tacuarembó increases
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - In order to prevent the implementation of mega mining projects in Tacuarembó, the local Commission "For Life and Water" (see Fides 27/09/2012) collected 1,500 signatures during the Fair "Exp ...
23 October 2012
AMERICA - School Education: 22 million children do not go to school or drop out of school
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Although there are 117 million school age children in Latin America and the Caribbean, millions of them still do not have a chance to go to school. Over 22 million children and adolescents in fa ...
23 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - A ransom for the three priests kidnapped has arrived; Bishops condemn the crime
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We received a phone call from a person claiming to belonging to the group that kidnapped the three religious, with a ransom note" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, ...
23 October 2012
EUROPE/POLAND - "Missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is strengthened when it is announced" was the theme of the "missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith and Missionary Week, which took place on October 20 at the Metropolita ...
23 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Shaw: "The Synod will help the faithful of Asia to renew the message of Christ"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization is a long wave that will reach even the Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan. I am convinced that the peoples of Asia will benefit as much as those of the West ...
23 October 2012
VATICAN - "New Evangelization in Islamic countries": a symposium at the Lateran
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The new evangelization and the Church in Pakistan", "Communion and Witness in Islamic countries", "Mystical Experience: meeting ground between Christianity and Islam": are some of the topics that ...
23 October 2012
AFRICA/MALI - The population is in favor of international military intervention to free the north
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the population is in favor of the proposed international military action to regain the north of Mali" says to Fides Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference o ...
22 October 2012
VATICAN - May the intercession of the new Saints sustain the Church in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "happy coincidence" between the Synodal Assembly on the New Evangelization and World Mission Sunday, were highlighted by the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the Mass he presided on Sund ...
22 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Different lines of investigation are being followed for the three Assumptionist fathers kidnapped" says to Fides the Bishop of Butembo-Beni
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have several lines of investigation to get to find the three religious kidnapped, we must understand which is the right one," says to Fides Agency his Exc. Mgr. Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, B ...
22 October 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - Two thousand children involved in fundraising for World Mission Sunday
Tui (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand children in the Diocese of Tui-Vigo, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain, walked the city streets with the classic tin containers used for the collection in favour of World M ...
22 October 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Hai Men opens the Year of Faith administering 445 Confirmations
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful were 445 adults from the Diocese of Hai Men, in Jiang Su province, in mainland China, who received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation, on October 14, at t ...
22 October 2012
ASIA/LAOS - "Year of Faith" amid the persecutions of Christians forced to become "animists"
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Some loatian civilian officials of the province of Savannakhet threaten to destroy the homes of Christians in the village of Seekaew if they refuse to perform animist religious rituals. Acco ...
22 October 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Hope and dignified life for 600 children and adults with disabilities
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The list of children and adults physically and mentally disabled in the Philippines is heavy. There are 600 young children and adults affected by different disabilities assisted at the center El ...
22 October 2012
AMERICA/CHILE - One hundred thousand young people at the pilgrimage of Santa Teresa de Los Andes: "You must be proud of being Christians," exhorts the Archbishop of Santiago
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100,000 people, mostly young people took part on Saturday, October 20 at pilgrimage to the Shrine of Santa Teresa de Los Andes, covering some 27 km from the town of Chacabuco to the " ...
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