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1 December 2011
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-Education and evangelization of children and young people
Lungi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian community has been present in Sierra Leone for 25 years, and has always been committed to education and evangelization of children and young people in the African country. According t ...
1 December 2011
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Christmas dedicated to the "new evangelization" in the spirit of the II Vatican Council
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is for the Korean Catholic Church an opportunity to reflect and revive the spirit of the "new evangelization": This is what emerges from the pastoral Letters that the Korean Bishops spre ...
1 December 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA-The Catholic Church may appoint religion teachers in public schools
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the State have reached an agreement in Bolivia as far as education is concerned: The government recognizes the educational structure of the Catholic Church, through t ...
1 December 2011
VATICAN - Benedict XVI: yesterday as today, the blood of the martyrs touches the human heart and makes it fruitful
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Christian news, of the beauty of faith in Christ needs people who with their lives, consistent with their loyalty, testified if necessary to the giving of oneself, ...
1 December 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: " immediately cease-fire, then a plan of national reconciliation"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "To the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Myanmar, we ask to invite the government to immediately order a ceasefire in the conflict with the Kachin Independent Army; then to r ...
1 December 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest denounces the tragedy of 68 families of Guatemalan refugees abandoned by everyone
Tabasco (Agenzia Fides) - The 68 families of Guatemalan refugees who since August 23 are in the municipality of Tenosique, Tabasco (Mexico), after being evicted from their village in Guatemala by the army and police, hav ...
1 December 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas operations in Somalia were not affected by the ban of the Shabab against foreign NGOs
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment, no Caritas operation has been affected by the decision of the Shabab to close the activities of humanitarian organizations in different areas of Somalia controlled by them" ref ...
1 December 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "In the long term disenchantment will prevail towards the political proposal of the Islamists," says a missionary from Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first data and not the final official data, but expresses a real tendency," says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, commenting on the f ...
1 December 2011
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - More than a million people need food aid
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Due to very scarse harvest, more than a million people in the Midlands Provinces are forced to survive eating fruit as a main meal in the evening, and are not able to pay school fees for their ch ...
1 December 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace initiative towards ethnic minorities is about to start: a national conference is being prepared
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a "courageous, initiative, with a potential to solve the devastating civil war with ethnic groups, which has been going on for 60 years", this is how the International Crisis Group (ICG) th ...
30 November 2011
"That children and young people may be messengers of the Gospel and that they may be respected and preserved from all violence and exploitation" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for December 2011
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Since the beginning, the Church has always had a special sensitivity for young people and children. The Lord Jesus urged the apostles to let the children go to Him and urged all his discip ...
30 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A wave of anti-US protest: Pakistani Christians are afraid of retaliation
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of protest against the United States and the West has not calmed down, started after the bombing by NATO forces, which in past days, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers on the Pakistani-Afghan ...
30 November 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - A Christian Kachin kidnapped and raped: "Hillary Clinton look at our suffering"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who arrives in Myanmar today, "look at the suffering of the Kachin ethnic minorities, mainly Christians, victims of atrocities and abuses of the Burm ...
30 November 2011
ASIA/VIETNAM - Homes razed, crops destroyed: the floods continue to do damage
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Floods caused by torrential rains that have recently hit the south of Vietnam continue to flood the country, victims only a month ago of one of the worst floods in the last decade. When the situat ...
30 November 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says a missionary
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held, but in an almost generalized disorder," says to Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, a Xaverian missionary, an attentive observer of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Co ...
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