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11 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Not only the M23, even other groups commit violence against civilians in North Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo continues. According to the local media, three days ago the men from the rebel leader Manu attacked the village of Bilulu, aft ...
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11 October 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - For the Year of Faith Biblical prayer in families and catechism for young people
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Biblical prayer meetings organized within families; special sessions of catechism for young people, with the use of the subsidy "Youcat"; a monthly pastoral letter and prayer for the Year of Fait ...
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11 October 2012
ASIA/HOLY LAND - A pilgrimage with stops to crusaders Castles, led by the historian Franco Cardini
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – It will be a unique journey to Holy Land from 1 to 9 November which will be made by a group of European pilgrims on the proposal of the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land. In additi ...
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11 October 2012
VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: waiting for new energy for missions
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides Agency on October 10, 1962, commenting on the Missionary Intention reports the expectations of the missionary world on the eve of the opening of the Council. "The Second Vatican Counc ...
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11 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The "catalyzing" Council for the growth of the Church in Africa, according to the Bishop of Sokoto
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Second Vatican Council, which opened exactly 50 years ago, on 11 October 1962, was a "catalyst" for the growth of the Church in Africa. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, B ...
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11 October 2012
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Youth and Year of Faith: the Gospel to say "No" to drugs, alcohol and disorderly sex
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith for the young people of Papua New Guinea, "a powerful opportunity and an invitation to rediscover the Gospel to say 'No' to drugs, alcohol, libertinage and disorder in sex ...
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11 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - 120 000 homeless, houses, hospitals, schools, churches and buildings destroyed or damaged by the worst flooding in 40 years
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - There are a million and 300,000 Nigerians displaced and 431 have died as a result of what local authorities have called the worst flooding in over 40 years, with 30 of the 36 states affected since ...
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10 October 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas: schools midway between children and refugees, the humanitarian emergency widens
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As the conflict continues, "humanitarian crisis increases more nad more: although we do our best we are not able to meet all the needs of refugees. We urgently need other humanitarian aid ": i ...
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10 October 2012
VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: the territories entrusted to "Propaganda Fide"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From news released by Fides Agency on October 17, 1962 it seems that the opening of the Second Vatican Council (ie 11 October 1962), depended on the then "Sacred Congregation de Propaganda ...
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10 October 2012
EUROPE/GERMANY - Experience communion among differences is possible if we remain in Christ, as the branches and the vine
Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - « "I am the vine, you are the branches"(Jn 15:5). Difference - the result of belonging? »: Jesus’ words taken from John’s Gospel and a question, inspired in particular by the reality of ...
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10 October 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - The site of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan for the Year of Faith has been inaugurated
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan has launched its official website for the Year of Faith in view of its opening on October 11, presided over by Benedict XVI in St. Peter's, with the p ...
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10 October 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Chaldean Bishop: Aleppo among insecurity, poverty and solidarity
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Aleppo the population is completely worn out because for three months insecurity, unemployment, poverty has reigned, and schools are closed and in hospitals doctors and medicines are lacking. ...
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10 October 2012
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition continues to increase, the country risks another famine crisis
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Because of the low rainfall falls below the seasonal average in Somalia, damaging the so-called 'crop Gu' and the dramatic increase of food price, the level of malnutrition in the country has ...
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10 October 2012
AMERICA/PERU - Human trafficking: 8 out of 10 victims are minors, a crime to fight
Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The Observatory on Crime of the Public Prosecutor reported that in Peru there were 1.112 reported cases of human trafficking from January 2008 to July 2012, and thus is considered as the second mos ...
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10 October 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "People have great human qualities, despite the conflicts and extreme poverty" testimony of the Auxiliary of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of priests and the lack of economic self-sufficiency are the realities that characterize the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni, in Bolivia. "I have been here for seven years, first as a p ...
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