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16 October 2012
ASIA - Catholic activist: "South Asia: a land of Christians persecution"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "South Asia is an area of great Christian persecution, subject to the violence of radical Islamic Hindus or also Buddhists": This is what John Dayal, a lay Catholic Indian, human rights activist an ...
16 October 2012
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Year of Faith and the new evangelization at the center of the Assembly of Bishops
Tungurahua (Agenzia Fides) – The CXXXII Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Ecuador, in the Casa Santa Marianita Baños (Ambato, Tungurahua) is still in progress. The central theme of this Assembly is the Year of Faith, whi ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/ EL SALVADOR - "Politics is discredited, it has to be retrieved" urges Mgr. Rosa Chavez
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, harshly criticized the behavior of the politicians who run the so-called "buy-sell will" in the political sphere. Since ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - In the Year of Faith: the 90th anniversary of the Diocese of San Cristóbal
San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of San Cristobal in Venezuela celebrates its 90 years, having been established on 12 October 1922 by Pope Pius XI, with the Apostolic Constitution "Ad Munus." The note sent to ...
15 October 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The "Door of Faith" in the Chinese Catholic communities of the continent opens
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Information and evidence concerning the opening of the Year of Faith in the Chinese Catholic communities of the continent continue to reach Fides Agency. Among these we mention a few. The dioces ...
15 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The whole of Pakistan in prayer for Malala; she and Rimsha symbol of change
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – While Malala Yousafzai, the girl victim of a Taliban attack is struggling between life and death and was transferred to a specialized hospital in London, the Pakistani nation is shaken and s ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Too many girls are forced to marry when they are minors or suffer sexual violence
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the first International Day of the Child, sponsored by the United Nations, which focused mainly on child marriage and its dramatic consequences, information related to Mex ...
15 October 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - A record for a new generation of Haitians
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Haitian children welcomed in the "Niños Casa de Esperanza" project, mostly orphans, who live in a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, has prepared a record that will be launched b ...
15 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Francophonie Summit in Kinshasa: a turning point in relations between France and Africa?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Africa is the future of the Francophonie and the old "Françafrique" is out-dated. These are the considerations that emerged in the Congolese and international press in the aftermath of the en ...
15 October 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fr.Tentorio’s murder: a year after his death the army has blocked the investigation
Davao (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME missionary killed on October 17, 2011 in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao, the perpetrators are still unpunished. Fr. Peter Geremiah, PIME miss ...
15 October 2012
VATICAN - Year of Faith: the site of the Campaign of Prayer for Evangelization is online
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The site of the Campaign of Prayer for Evangelization of the world is online, prepared by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Mission Societies, in parti ...
13 October 2012
VATICAN - WORLD MISSION DAY - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2012
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, this year celebrated on Sunday, October 21, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary church all o ...
13 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Francophonie Summit begins: the crisis in Kivu and in Mali and the relations between France and Africa at the centre of the work
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Last night the fourteenth summit of the Francophonie summit began in Kinshasa, the first in Central Africa and, in particular, in the Great Lakes of Africa. For months, the capital of the Democ ...
13 October 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Caravan of mothers in search of missing children will travel 14 Mexican states
El Corinth (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 15, the "Caravan of Mothers of Central America" will arrive in El Ceibo, an important point in the Mexico-Guatemala border.
The caravan is composed of parents from El Sa ...
13 October 2012
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - A "year of grace" for the small Catholic community
Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community in Tajikistan will live a "year of grace": 333 faithful who will keep alight the flame of faith in Central Asia, despite the difficulties and the new restrictions o ...
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