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16 March 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Redemptorists of Bahia promote the missionary formation of religious and laity
Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The Redemptorist Missionary Center of Bahia proposes Formation Mission Courses in response to the appeal of Aparecida (no. 174), and to provide service to communities, parishes and dioceses in the ...
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16 March 2012
EUROPE/SPAIN-African and Latin America crafts for the promotion of women in India
Santander (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Catholic Association Manos Unidas of Cantabria has just opened its traditional bazaars of solidarity that, for 28 years, has aimed to raise funds for development projects and the e ...
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16 March 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong encourages the laity to evangelize with a smile, passing on the joy of being Christians
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Being a happy Catholic, to evangelize with a smile, passing on the joy of being Christians, awaiting the Year of Faith: are the recommendations of the Bishop of Hong Kong, the newly-elected Ca ...
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16 March 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "The humanitarian mission is a blessed initiative"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The humanitarian mission is a blessed initiative, that we encourage strongly. We need an urgent effort: although we have no details yet on its development, it is an intervention welcomed and l ...
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16 March 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities, blasphemy, rights: the work of Shahbaz Bhatti officially arrives in Europe
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The "All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA), Association of Pakistani civil society, founded in 2002 by Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic Minister for Minorities, murdered a year ago in Islamabad, puts ...
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16 March 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Negotiations between the government and Boko Haram? For the Archbishop of Jos, "maybe it would be better to identify the sponsors of the sect"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know what the government is doing, but I know that Boko Haram is a ruthless group that sends people to kill themselves to kill others. I do not know how you deal with them " says to Fide ...
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16 March 2012
ASIA/MONGOLIA - One of the poorest countries with the greatest mineral wealth in the world
Ulan Bator (Agenzia Fides) - It was the month of July 2001 when a Canadian company announced the discovery of one of the largest gold deposits in Oyu Tolgoi, in the Mongolian Turquoise Mountain. Since then, mining compan ...
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16 March 2012
AFRICA/SUDAN - Nuba Mountains: too many victims of war put a strain on the staff of the only hospital in the area
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that has been disrupting the Nuba Mountains since June 2011 is putting in serious crisis the ability of the local hospital to take care of the victims, hit by bullets and bomb shrapnel. ...
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16 March 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - A priest: "People ask: can the Church mediate to favor reconciliation?"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "In an atmosphere of prevailing pessimism, while the population suffers at an economic and social level, people ask us: can the Church play a mediating role between the antagonists, for reconci ...
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15 March 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Swiss hostages are free, "high hopes" for the Italian and German aid workers in the hands of the Taliban
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela Widmer, 29, two Swiss citizens kidnapped in Baluchistan in July 2011 by Taliban groups, have been released, and are now safe in Peshawar. This was reported by ...
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15 March 2012
AMERICA/CUBA - "Nobody has the right to transform churches into political trenches": the Archdiocese of Havana on occupation of the church of Our Lady of Charity
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Havana issued a statement regarding the 13 people who have occupied the church of "Our Lady of Charity", in the center of the capital, where they spent the entire night. "Nobod ...
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15 March 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - The diocese of Chia Yi begins the journey for the Year of Faith with the Eucharistic Adoration
Chia Yi (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Chia Yi began the journey for the Year of the Faith proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, with prolonged Eucharistic adoration. As reported by the Catholic Weekly of the Archdiocese of ...
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15 March 2012
AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-Hospitality, education and the living of children and young Ivorians to rebuild the country
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) –A year after the last armed conflict in Côte d'Ivoire, which caused more than 3 000 deaths and thousands of displaced, 40% of Ivorians, over 8 million people, live below the poverty line. Inse ...
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15 March 2012
AMERICA/CHILE-The solidarity of the religious population of Aysen, while dialogue starts again
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Confederation of thr Religious in Chile has expressed that "the movement of Aysen belongs to all of Chile, and especially to the honest and peaceful people, who are now tired of being victi ...
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15 March 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Christian activist: "Too many errors in the case of the Italian marines: now only the legal way remains"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the two Italian marines detained in prison in Kerala and the killing of the two Indian fishermen in the accident with the Italian oil tanker "Enrica Lexie", "has been contaminated ...
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