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18 October 2012
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christians before the conflicts in the Middle East
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The demands of the Arab peoples in order to obtain constitutional, economic and social reforms are just and legitimate, but what is not right is the fact of imposing such changes "from the outside ...
18 October 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - With an event in the city park, the Year of Faith in the Diocese of Tai Nan begins
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – An event in a public park in the town of Tai Nan to present the activities and organization of the Catholic Church officially opened on 13 October, the Year of Faith in the Diocese of Tai Nan ...
18 October 2012
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "It is a great thing to serve others": the testimony of a missionary Camillian doctor from Burkina Faso
Verona (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian priest, Father Paul Ouedraogo, a doctor, has just finished his specialization in pediatrics in Italy and is preparing to return to Burkina Faso, his country of origin, where he will ...
18 October 2012
VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: in a year 40 new Bishops in missions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the overview of "The Missionary Year 1961-1962", published in the August 4, 1962 edition, Fides Agency emphasizes the significant number of new Bishops appointed in mission territories ...
18 October 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and FARC has started behind closed-door
Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released a joint statement confirming the meeting for Dialogue for peace in Oslo, capital of Norway, albeit behin ...
18 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The violence is antithetical to the true values preached by Christianity and Islam, says the President of the Episcopal Conference
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The need to return to the true values of Christianity and Islam to create a Nigerian society that lives in peace and harmony. This is the appeal launched by His Exc Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, A ...
18 October 2012
AMERICA/URUGUAY - "No violence is justified under any circumstances," the Archdiocese after the violence in the Marconi barrio of the capital
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) –From Sunday 14 to Tuesday, October 16, the " Marconi barrio " of the Uruguayan capital became a war zone. A group of policemen, looking for some robbers, was the object of throwing stones, s ...
18 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Talibans in Asia united against Malala, but "Pakistan is with her"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - While the school in Mingora, where Malala Yousafzai studied, the girl victim of aTaliban attack who is struggling between life and death, has been forced to a temporary closure "because of the th ...
18 October 2012
OCEANIA/TAHITI - Year of Faith: "People are ready to publicly display their belief in God"
Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics of Tahiti mobilized for the Year of Faith, expressing "full communion" with the initiative launched by Pope Benedict XVI and wishing to offer a "public witness of faith." As reported t ...
18 October 2012
AFRICA/CHAD - The children who emigrated finally reunited with their families
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The majority of the students of the Koran in Chad who were in Nigeria for study reasons, and who in March were forced to flee back to their country because of the ongoing violence in northern Nige ...
17 October 2012
AMERICA/PERU - "To carry out mission in an area where there are scars of violence": the testimony of the Archbishop of Ayacucho
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During a break in the work of the Synod on the New Evangelization, Fides Agency met His Exc. Mgr. Salvador Piñeiro Garcia-Calderon, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho and President of t ...
17 October 2012
VATICAN - The Synod of Bishops: a delegation to Syria to express solidarity and closeness to the population
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday afternoon, October 16, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, spoke at the Fourteenth General Congregation of the Synod of Bishops and announced that a Delegation of the ...
17 October 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN - For a just world, interest towards people must prevail over economics
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 1 million 300 thousand people who continue to live in extreme poverty, and nearly 850 million suffer from hunger, inequality and discrimination between one country an ...
17 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The church of San Francesco attacked in Karachi: the Franciscans in fear
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of St. Francis, the oldest of the archdiocese of Karachi, in the old town, was attacked by a mob of about 600 Islamic radicals that devasted the yard, but did not manage to b ...
17 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - In North Kivu, a new rebel group extorts money from the civilian population, reports a source of Fides
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) a new rebel group has appeared that extorts money from the civilian population. This is denounced to Fides Agency by a missionary source who ...
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