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24 March 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Pope’s visit live on the PMS website
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Mexico, on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s first apostolic visit in Mexico, are technically prepared to be able to follow step by step the Hol ...
24 March 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Orissa and Kerala: momentary crisis between Italy-India but Christians are "optimistic"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The cases of the two Italian marines in jail in Kerala and of the two Italians kidnapped in Orissa "cast shadows in the relationship between India and Italy", but Indian Christians "remain opt ...
23 March 2012
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Huts, schools, churches and crops destroyed: a picture of the damage in the diocese of Moramanga after the cyclones Giovanna and Irina
Moramanga (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Council of Priests of the Diocese of Moramanga ended yesterday, March 22, during which the pastors of the eight district missionaries of the diocese reported the latest new ...
23 March 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The gratitude of the diocese of Hong Kong for the Poor Clares, who arrived in 2000
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The immense gratitude of the diocese of Hong Kong for the Poor Sisters of St. Clare (known as the Poor Clares, OSC) who celebrate 800 years of foundation, was expressed by Cardinal John Tong, ...
23 March 2012
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST-The Italian Minister Terzi: "The respect of human rights in the Middle East is measured with the protection of minorities"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an indicator, a litmus test, to verify the respect of fundamental freedoms in the Middle East: it is the protection of minorities, especially religious ones" This is what the Italian Mini ...
23 March 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - More than 20,000 refugees in Lebanon: for Caritas it is "humanitarian emergency"
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - There are approximately 20 thousand Syrian refugees in Lebanon and it is already "humanitarian emergency": this is what Caritas Lebanon tells Fides, engaged in humanitarian assistance in the Nor ...
23 March 2012
AFRICA/MALI - Calmer situation, the coup leaders start talks with political and religious representatives
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The firing of gun shots came to an end yesterday afternoon. Today the situation is calmer, although most people still prefer to stay home", sources of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, in Bamako ...
23 March 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - Guanajuato, land with a long history of struggle and faith, welcomes Benedict XVI
Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict XVI will be the first pontiff to set foot in Guanajuato, a state which is protagonist for the movement for Mexican independence and imbued with mysticism, because in its territo ...
23 March 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nearly a thousand women were killed in 2011, accused of "crimes of honor"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by an organization for the defense of human rights, almost a thousand women were killed in 2011 in Pakistan accused of "crimes of honor", very common in South Asia ...
23 March 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Civil society and tribal people demonstrate Orissa for the release of the Italian hostages
Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – Tribal people, women, civil society associations, priests, religious demonstrated peacefully today in different places of Orissa for the release of the two Italian hostages, Paolo Bosusco ...
23 March 2012
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU- The results of the first round of presidential elections have been challenged
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is evolving, because candidates who did not accept the results of the first round present today the appeal to the Supreme Court claiming that the elections were marred by fraud. Th ...
23 March 2012
AMERICA - Water is a human right that many still fail to conquer
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The World Water Day was celebrated yesterday, March 22, also in Latin America with several demonstrations in defense of this natural asset. In South America for the indigenous water is a sacred, f ...
22 March 2012
ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics bear witness to faith, dedicating themselves to social voluntary
Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - The 60 young Catholic volunteers from the parish of Nan Tang of the Archdiocese of Xi An, in the province of Shaan Xi, have renewed their commitment to devote themselves to volunteering in the yea ...
22 March 2012
AMERICA/UNITED STATES-The Episcopal Conference has posted a website and through the website one can connect to Facebook with details on the Pope’s trip
New York City (Agenzia Fides) - Benedict XVI’s visit in Mexico and Cuba will also be posted by the American Episcopate website and social networks. In a note sent to Fides, the United States Conference of Catholic Bish ...
22 March 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "Full support for the UN plan to end violence"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The UN document on the conflict in Syria "is very good in content and should be fully supported as it is really urgent to put an end to violence": is the assessment of the Apostolic Nuncio to S ...
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