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8 October 2012
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Chávez re-elected President, the Church invites him to the feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Hugo Chávez Frías, with 54.42% of the vote (according to the local press) won the presidential election, whereas Henrique Capriles, managed to obtain 44.97%. Hugo Chávez was re-elected presid ...
8 October 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious leaders: "It is urgent to change the blasphemy law and to condemn those who burned the church in Mardan"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "There should be no clash among civilizations because of the sin of one person. If anyone profanes Islam or commits a crime in the West or in America, none of the Christians in Pakistan must be i ...
8 October 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Haiti thanks Caritas Mexico, which has never stopped bringing aid since the 2010 earthquake
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Pierre Dumas, Bishop of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoane, as President of Caritas Haiti, said: "We would like to thank the Mexican Episcopal Conference, that after the earthquake ...
8 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Operation against Boko Haram, but attacks continue
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Weekend marked by violence in various parts of Nigeria. At least 17 people were killed in the village of Doko Kuka, in the State of Yobo. According to reports from the website of the newspaper "Ni ...
8 October 2012
EUROPE/ITALY - A conference on St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe, a precursor of the new evangelization
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – From 8 to 10 October, the Franciscans of the Immaculate have organized, at the International College of the Holy Land in Rome, a Conference of studies on St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe on the occasion ...
8 October 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Orthodox Bishop of Aleppo: a concrete diplomatic initiative that is inspired by the Pope's appeals is needed
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation here is getting worse. We cannot resist under these conditions for months. We leaders of local Christian Churches can do little. Even Muslim leaders appear divided. At this point, ...
8 October 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "The agreement government-rebels decisive for the future of Mindanao"
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The peace agreement reached between the Philippine government and the rebels of the "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" (MILF) "will be decisive for the future of Mindanao and the development ...
8 October 2012
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Still tensions for the miners made redundant, trade unionists targeted by mysterious killer
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation remains very tense and one does not know what developments there will be in the coming hours" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowling, Bishop of Rustenburg (South Af ...
5 October 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 10 days after the beginning of dialogue between the government and FARC: the Church has always worked for peace
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja, former President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga said that the Catholic hierarchy will contribute all that is needed to ...
5 October 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The diocese of Hong Kong prays for the victims of the collision between the two ships and provides moral and psychological support to survivors
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, presided, at the Cathedral on the evening of October 3, the solemn Mass for the repose of the 38 victims of the collision between the two ships, on ...
5 October 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Who caused the failure of the summit on Kivu?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is unthinkable that one person, representative of an increasingly despotic and dictatorial regime, is able to derail an international meeting for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo," ...
5 October 2012
AFRICA/EGYPT - The two Coptic children accused of insulting Islam have been released; "decisive" intervention attributed to President Morsi
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Prosecutor General ordered yesterday afternoon, October 4, the release of the two Coptic Orthodox children who had been taken the previous day to a juvenile detention after being accu ...
5 October 2012
ASIA/VIETNAM - Lack of funds increases fears of a further spread of malaria
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – The annual meeting of the World Health Organization has just ended in Hanoi in the course of which the lack of funds to monitor migrants in the country was highlighted, which is likely to worsen ...
5 October 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacre of students: " Boko Haram suspected," said Mgr. Kaigama
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Each clue indicates that it is an action carried out by Boko Haram" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Episcopal Conference of Nigeria, comm ...
5 October 2012
VATICAN - The missionary mandate of the Lord will mark the next General Assembly of the Synod
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - 'Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15). With these words of the Risen Lord Jesus, given in the final part of the Gospel of St. Mark, the mission of ...
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