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29 October 2011
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops are the "best available witnesses" for the elections on November 6
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - To monitor the upcoming elections and to ensure transparency, the Bishops are the "best possible witnesses": this is why the organization "Ethics and Transparency," which has the task of monitor ...
28 October 2011
ASIA/NEPAL - The number of torture and abuse that goes unpunished on juvenile detainees is still high
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - In Nepal, the threats to the victims and the absence of mechanisms of protection for witnesses have hindered access to justice for thousands of people and fed impunity towards perpetrators of ...
28 October 2011
EUROPE/POLAND - An online survey on the support for the Church's missionary activity
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On the Occasion of Missionary Week, the most popular Catholic weekly in Poland, "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, has published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online su ...
28 October 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Sacred art, instrument of catechesis at the College of St. Francis Xavier
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of the Rosary, the College of St. Francis Xavier of the Marist Brothers in Hong Kong, has dedicated an exhibition of religious paintings to the Madonna, to allow the students ...
28 October 2011
VATICAN - The Pope in Assisi: "Struggle for peace must engage us all in a new way"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five years have passed since the blessed Pope John Paul II first invited representatives of the world’s religions to Assisi to pray for peace, "unfortunately we cannot say that fr ...
28 October 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Joseph" in the Archdiocese of Yangon
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. John Saw Yaw Han, of the archdiocesan clergy of Yangon as Rector of the Theological ...
28 October 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - "The military offensive in Kenya aggravates the humanitarian situation of the Somali" denounces the head of Caritas Somalia
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent war events aggravate an already very difficult and complex situation", says Suzanna Tkalec to Fides, operator of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), head of Caritas Somalia, in Dad ...
28 October 2011
AMERICA - Violent deaths: 9 out of 10 occur in situations that are not declared war
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Armed violence is both a cause and a consequence of underdevelopment says the report entitled "Global Burden of Armed Violence in 2011" published yesterday, 27 October, in Geneva, which was prepa ...
28 October 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Torit sends a delegation to resolve the community conflict in Magwe County
Juba (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Akio Johnson Mutek, Bishop of Torit, in Southern Sudan, has announced that he has sent a delegation to mediate in the conflict between two communities in Magwe County, in the Easter ...
28 October 2011
ASIA/THAILAND - Imminent and inevitable disaster in the capital because of heavy monsoon rains
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The National Rescue Centre in Thailand has predicted that four hundred million cubic meters of water will flood the capital, where the system is able to drain only small fractions of daily water ...
28 October 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - More than 5 000 teachers at the Forum of Education sponsored by the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The ninth Public Education Forum has just been celebrated, organized by the Vicariate of Public Education of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, attended by 5,523 teachers of 250 schools. The ...
27 October 2011
VATICAN - Pope's Appeal for victims of earthquake in Turkey
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the general audience on Wednesday, October 26, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched an appeal for people affected by the earthquake in Turkey. These are his words: "Dear brothers an ...
27 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Chinese scholars to be held in December
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information provided by Sapientia Press House of the diocese of Beijing, the Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars, 2011, organized by the "Beijing Institute f ...
27 October 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Major Seminary "St. Joseph " in the Archdiocese of Mandalay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Paul Pepper, of the diocesan clergy of Loikaw as Rector of the philosophical Major ...
27 October 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - In Somaliland children are detained and prosecuted, even for minor offenses, together with adults
Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The children's rights activists are concerned about the stagnation of a law on juvenile justice in the independent Republic of Somaliland in Somalia, where it is estimated that about 200 childr ...
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