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10 October 2012
AFRICA/MALI - Negotiation or war? The debate rages on how to resolve the crisis in the north
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In Mali there is a heated debate among the supporters of dialogue and those who are pushing for a military solution to the crisis in the north," is what Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the E ...
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10 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taliban attack in Swat: Bishop defends "the right to life and education"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Every person has a sacred right to life and education": so says His Exc Mgr. Rufin Anthony, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi to Fides, the diocese which includes the Swat valley (province of Kh ...
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9 October 2012
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Victims and wounded in clashes between police and the indigenous
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHAR) has launched a warning for the murder of six indigenous people in Guatemala, following the clashes between the communities o ...
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9 October 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The new church is not a monument, but a call to evangelization and the life of faith
Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - "The new church is not a monument to show to the public, but is a reminder of evangelization and the life of faith, especially in view of the Year of Faith": is the appeal launched by His Exc. ...
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9 October 2012
VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: in South Vietnam children also pray for the Council
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From news released by Fides Agency on 22 September 1962: "The Ecumenical Council does not leave indifferent Catholics in Vietnam, and the Catholic weekly 'Song Dao' has spared no efforts to ...
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9 October 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country needs to change, do not choose the corrupt" urges Cardinal Maradiaga
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, has invited Hondurans to vote the citizens who have the necessary skills to run the government in the coming elections,. ...
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9 October 2012
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Education for women, to allow the whole society to grow: the commitment of the JRS
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Educating women means to advance the whole society of Burundi, one of the poorest Countries in Africa. This is why the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is investing in educational projects aimed ...
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9 October 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III, "May the Year of Faith be the Year of Reconciliation"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "May the Year of Faith be for Syria the Year of reconciliation: is the hope of Christians and all the Syrian people": is what the Melkite Patriarch of Damascus, Gregory III Laham, now in th ...
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9 October 2012
AMERICA/HAITI - Signs of recovery while the population is still in crisis: schools reopened
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have gone by since the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed 90% of schools and 60% of hospitals, killing thousands of people, leaving more than 350 000 injured and causing more ...
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9 October 2012
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land: how to live the Year of Faith in these difficult days
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - With a pastoral Letter which has just been published, the Assembly of Bishops of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land offers its contribution to the itinerary that the universal Church is ...
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9 October 2012
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Avoid violence and resort to dialogue": Mgr. Gualberti intervenes in the miners’ conflict
Colquiri (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad when reading the newspaper this morning that some of our brothers in Colquiri, who live in the same city and who are also relatives of the miners, clashed on Saturday, October 6, causi ...
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9 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Civilians killed in the clash between the military and Boko Haram: confirmation on behalf of the Bishop of Maiduguri
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - There are also a number of civilians who were killed in a shooting between members of Boko Haram and the Nigerian military that took place yesterday, October 8, in Maiduguri, in the northeastern S ...
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8 October 2012
VATICAN - The Pope opens the Synod on the new evangelization: "Even in our times, the Holy Spirit has nurtured in the Church a new effort to announce the Good News"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, October 7, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided over the Eucharistic celebration for the opening of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme: "T ...
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8 October 2012
ASIA/CHINA - Initiatives for the Year of Faith flourish in Chinese dioceses and parishes
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the opening of the Year of Faith and taking advantage of the long holiday for the national holiday (from the 1st to 8th October), priests, women religious, seminarians and lay people ...
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8 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The floods have caused 450 deaths and 4.9 million people are severely affected
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - At least 450 people have died and 4.9 million have been affected by the floods caused by the monsoon that this year has hit Pakistan. About 275,000 homes and business activities have been seve ...
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