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7 February 2012
ASIA/MALDIVES - "The Maldives should look at the Arab spring: more democracy and religious freedom"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inhabitants of the Maldives should be inspired by the movements of the Arab Spring and move towards a secular system, which protects human rights and religious freedom": this is what John ...
7 February 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "The FARC are not a political group, but a gang of terrorists"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, the Archbishop of Bogota, Mgr. Ruben Salazar Gomez, at the annual Assembly of the Bishops of the country declared that "the FARC (Revolution ...
7 February 2012
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara commit suicide because of despair, because they have nothing to eat
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Deaths caused by starvation registered among the Tarahumara population, who reside in the current Mexican territory of Chihuahua and other places in the country, where 28 million Mexicans su ...
7 February 2012
AFRICA/SENEGAL - The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The election campaign began last Sunday in a minor tone and there were no major clashes" say Church sources to Fides from Dakar, Senegal's capital, where on February 5 the campaign for the presid ...
7 February 2012
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Reconciliation and peace with the Taliban: the desire of the Afghan civil society
Herat (Agenzia Fides) - The Afghan civil society supports a full reconciliation with the Taliban movement and a political-diplomatic solution to the Afghan theater: So says a study published today, entitled "Foreign troo ...
7 February 2012
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Santa Rosa: "I am here with you because the pastor, Father David Donis is not here anymore, unfortunately he was killed "
Cuilapa (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Bernabe de Jesus Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M .Cap., Bishop of St. Rose of Lima, in Guatemala, celebrated Mass in the Church of the Holy Family in memory of the priest, Father David Donis, who ...
7 February 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The government and the Islamic leadership are moving to stop Boko Haram" says the Archbishop of Abuja
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The solution is at hand, because the government is working to face the problem of Boko Haram" says to Fides Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Federal capital of Nigeria, ...
7 February 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The path of Evangelization continues waiting for the Year of Faith
Lin He (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to pursue the path of evangelization to welcome the Year of Faith: was the central theme of the second meeting of the parish of Lin He, in Inner Mongolia, which was held on Sunday, Febru ...
6 February 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias’ appeal: "it is necessary to eradicate forms of dehumanization in India"
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to eradicate all forms of dehumanization in India; to put into action an effort to humanize the social, political, economic and religious structures and institutions of the c ...
6 February 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Peace, development, education: the emergencies of a vast and plural country
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Peace, education, development, literacy, to build a fair and equitable society: these are the needs indicated by several Bishops of India at the Plenary Assembly being held in Bangalore on the ...
6 February 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A think-tank on religious freedom and persecution: the idea of Pakistani Christians abroad
Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to create a think-tank, which acts as Observatory and Study Center, to monitor the status of Christians in Pakistan, their difficulties and challenges: this is the proposal ...
6 February 2012
ASIA/TURKEY - Patriarch Bartholomew at the National Assembly to discuss the new Constitution
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Istanbul Bartholomew I, of the Orthodox Church, will participate in the work of the Turkish National Assembly to discuss the drafting of the new Constitution, in par ...
6 February 2012
AFRICA - The African Union and the path of democracy in Africa
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in its history, the African Union (AU) has failed to elect its President. At the 18th Summit of the Heads of State held in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia and seat of the ...
6 February 2012
ASIA/INDIA - "Forgiveness and love for one’s enemy": the choice of persecuted Christians in Orissa
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The persecuted Christians in Orissa want to "forgive and love their enemies, persecutors", as the Gospel of Christ says: is what has emerged from a meeting held in recent days at the home fo ...
6 February 2012
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "The country is wounded to death by violence, poverty, corruption" denounces Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga before the President of Honduras
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, said before the highest authorities of Honduras that the country is bleeding, mortally wounded by violence, increasing p ...
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