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17 November 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Killings, injuries, recruitment and rape on minors do not stop
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Somali children are increasingly at risk due to the ongoing conflict. In the course of the fighting taking place throughout South and Central Somalia, attacks and assaults on chil ...
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17 November 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Sister killed for her missionary work among the tribal people, "a true disciple of Christ", abandoned by the civil authorities
Dumka (Agenzia Fides) – She was one of the many religious from Kerala (a state in South India, thriving in vocations) scattered in India and the world as missionaries: Sr.Valsha John, 53, of the "Sisters of Charity of ...
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17 November 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA - "The Arab spring" at the center of meeting of the Bishops of North Africa
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political situation in North Africa was the focus of the meeting of the Conference of Bishops of North Africa Region (CERNA), which was held in Tunis from November 13 to 16. It was ...
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17 November 2011
AMERICA/PERU - Clergy and Consecrated Life "Witnesses of Christ in communion": III National Missionary Congress
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the diocese of Callao, the Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Peru officially convene the Third National ...
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17 November 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The International Forum on Liturgy & Inculturation traces 20 years of formation and development of the Liturgy in China
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The Forum on Liturgy & Inculturation organized by Faith Institute for Cultural Studies of He Bei, in collaboration with the ten major Seminaries in the Chinese mainland, is taking place i ...
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17 November 2011
AFRICA/BENIN - "On arriving in Benin, the Holy Father pays tribute also to the work of missionaries and the local hierarchy": the testimony of a missionary of the SAM
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father's trip to Benin for the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation publication dedicated to Africa will also be a tribute to the work of missionaries who 150 years ago not only began the e ...
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17 November 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - The flight of the Somali people to Kenya continues, the assistance of the Camillian Task Force
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the Somali population does not improve and the inexorable flight to Kenya in search of food and water continues. In the area of Wajir, one of the most affected by drought, mo ...
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17 November 2011
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Episcopal Conference is concerned about the life of a journalist on hunger strike
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement entitled "Reconciliation, Peace and Justice", the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela urges the judiciary authorities to "carefully consider" why the journalist Leocenis Garcia is ...
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16 November 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Disabled elderly priest promotes the construction of a new church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) - Don Zhang Xiong Feng, disabled elderly priest of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi, in the Shaan Xi province, presided the solemn blessing and location of the new church building cross dedicated to the S ...
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16 November 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Brazil's National Missionary Congress to the Latin American Missionary Congress
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the National Missionary Council (COMINA) of Brazil, which was held this past weekend, from 11 to 13 November, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
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16 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-A new church and an agreement with the Lateran University: the Ministry for Harmony is linked up with the Church of Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An agreement of collaboration with the Pontifical Lateran University and the construction of a new church in the diocese of Faisalabad: is what is reported to Fides, these are the results that toda ...
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16 November 2011
AFRICA/LIBERIA - A Catholic nun at the head of the Commission of Inquiry on electoral violence
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - The re-elected President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a religious Catholic, Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, at the head of a commission of inquiry into the violence on Novem ...
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16 November 2011
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Millions of mosquito nets to prevent malaria facilitated by recent floods
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of Cambodians will receive insecticide-treated nets by the government to try to limit the spread of malaria and dengue fever. This is the largest operation of distribution in Asia, 2 ...
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16 November 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscans: human rights violations in Papua, NGOs hampered, the media gagged
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) –Indonesian Papua is experiencing "serious abuses of civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural", while the mass media are gagged to hide the truth: so says the new Repor ...
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16 November 2011
AMERICA/ECUADOR - "The family is called to treasure the transmission of faith, it must become supportive and missionary" the conclusions of the Second Congress for the Family
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Ecuador has published the conclusions of the II National Congress of the Family, held simultaneously in Quito, Guayaquil, Portoviejo, Loja and Tena, from 9 to 12 Novemb ...
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