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7 January 2012
VATICAN-Archbishop Fernando Filoni among the Cardinals named by the Pope, together with two Asian Bishops
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Angelus on the solemnity of the Epiphany, January 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI announced for February 18 a Consistory in which he will proceed to the appointment of 22 ...
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7 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Christians fleeing the violence of the "Boko Haram" sect, which has "changed strategy"
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Christians of indigenous tribes in the state of Yobe are terrified and are preparing to abandon their ancestral territories, due to the threats and violence of the Islamic militia gro ...
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7 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu and Muslim radicals infiltrated into Churches: Christian Ong’s alarm
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic Fundamentalists and Hindu radicals are infiltrating into the Christian community and Christian NGOs in India: their goal is to obtain material that can be used against Christians, espe ...
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7 January 2012
VATICAN - More than 300 dioceses in the world celebrate Pauline Jaricot, pioneer of the mission ad gentes
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 dioceses in the world, in five continents, will celebrate on 9 January, the 150th anniversary of Pauline Jaricot’s death: this is what Father Timothy Lehane Barrett, Secreta ...
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5 January 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: "The political tension must not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hope is that the political tensions does not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people ", says to Fides Fr. Gerard Hammond, Maryknoll Missionary and Director of Program ...
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5 January 2012
VATICAN - "Boys and girls, make yourselves heard, without shame and uncertainty always trusting in God", the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood urges all boys and girls
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in 2012, the year of Faith wanted by the Holy Father. Boys and girls, you belong to Missionary Childhood and therefore you believe in the role you have been entrusted, to bear ...
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5 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph have been in service to society for 120 years
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are a presence that is leaven for the Church and society: the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang (in the province of He Bei) celebrated the 12 ...
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5 January 2012
AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 10 million pilgrims at the Shrine of Aparecida in 2011
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Shrine of Aparecida, which is located in the northern city of Aparecida (São Paulo State), welcomed a total of 10.885.878 million visitors in 2011. This is what the Episcopal Con ...
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5 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - People are hungry for food and spiritual health: new group of Lay Camillian Family in Gojra
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Lay Camillian Family (LCF) in Pakistan continues to bear its fruit. In a statement just sent to Fides, Father Mushtaq Anjum, MI, reports some good news. After hearing ab ...
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5 January 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New enthusiasm for the mission in the Year of grace 2012, between proclamation and solidarity
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2012 will be "a year of grace for the mission" in the Philippines: the Episcopal Conference has in fact declared it the "Year of the Pontifical Mission Societies" (POM), a period that wi ...
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4 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-A sewing institute was inaugurated by the religious Camillians cutting for poor girls
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The religious Camillians have just opened the St. Camillus Sewing Center, in a small village called Chak 6/4-L, MF, in Okara, in the diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan. This is what father Mus ...
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4 January 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Evangelization, Laity and Family: Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization, Christian initiation of adults, laity and family, as indicated by the Holy Father in his Letter to Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the main themes that Mgr. John Tong Bis ...
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4 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - A task force of the Church to combat the trafficking of women and young girls
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) –Human being trafficking and exploitation, especially women and girls, is a social evil in India, according to estimates it affects 20 to 60 million victims, and on which crime flourishes. It i ...
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4 January 2012
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Cholera continues to claim victims among children and 750 000 people risk starvation
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After 20 years of war, Somalia is currently experiencing a very serious famine and so far 55 children have died of cholera and severe malnutrition. In the southern region of Bay, about 250 kil ...
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4 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case, "a bridge between Christians and Muslims", recalling Salman Taseer
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi’s case, an innocent victim of the abuse of the blasphemy law, must be "a bridge, not a wall, between Muslims and Christians", which can form an alliance "together to save a human life ...
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