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24 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - March and prayer in Mindanao: "justice" is demanded for the missionary killed
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - The population of Mindanao mobilizes to seek "justice for Fr.Tentorio", the PIME missionary killed seven days ago in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines (see Fides 17/10/ ...
24 October 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - "Walk among the Words of God" is the theme of the Seminar on Sacred Scripture
Hsinchu (Agenzia Fides) - "Walk among the Words of God - I am the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn 14.6)": This is the theme of the Eighth Seminar on Sacred Scripture, which will be held from 11 to 13 November in the Arc ...
24 October 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 20 000 protesters say "No to violence"
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics attended the peaceful march through the streets of the capital, on Saturday, October 22, to express their condemnation to the violence that causes about 17 deaths i ...
24 October 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - " Minimum services are guaranteed in Dadaab, waiting for new security protocols", says the representative of Caritas Somalia
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "For the moment, given the security situation, what remains active in Dadaab are those that the UNHCR calls the Life Saving Activities. All organizations present in Dadaab keep the necessary sta ...
24 October 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - At least 38 dead in Guatemala, thousands are homeless in Central America
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Since 11 October torrential rains lash Central America. Caritas Guatemala has sent a statement to Fides on the situation in the country after the heavy rains in past days. This natural di ...
24 October 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - Rape and sexual violence, the problems mostly felt by women who have fled from Somalia
Dadaab (Agenzia Fides) - "According to a brief analysis carried out by the Program on Gender-based violence (GBV) in Dadaab, rape and sexual violence are the problems mostly felt by women and girls who have fled from Som ...
24 October 2011
ASIA - Floods simultaneously in six countries: 700 dead, 8 million people affected, the intervention of Caritas
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the first time that six Southeast Asian countries are affected simultaneously by powerful floods. It is a great emergency, the worst in 50 years, and Caritas of different countries are be ...
24 October 2011
AFRICA/HAITI - Cholera continues to make victims among Haitians: in a year 6,500 infected people have died
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the population is still threatened by the deadly disease. Since the first cases which occured in October 2010, more than 450 th ...
24 October 2011
AFRICA/GHANA - Meeting of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM)
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The second annual meeting of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is taking place in Accra, Ghana, from October 23 to 26. A statement sent to Agenzia Fides r ...
22 October 2011
EUROPE/POLAND - Mission Sunday: The Apostolic Nuncio visits the national headquarters of the PMS; "missionary workshops" restart in Czestochowa
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, His Exc. Mgr. Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, visited the headquarters of the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PM ...
22 October 2011
AMERICA/CANADA - "We are witnesses, builders!": PMS Video for World Mission Day
Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day, Father André Gagnon, SJ, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the French-speaking Canada, addressed a message to all in French through ...
22 October 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA - "I am optimistic about the future of Tunisia" says the Archbishop of Tunis on the eve of the vote
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is very calm. Last night, the campaign ended without any incidents and now we are living in the expectation of the vote" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Maroun Elias Lahham, Archbishop ...
22 October 2011
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Paul Biya re-elected President of Cameroon
Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, was re-elected the Head of State for the sixth time in the elections held on 9 October (see Fides 10/10/2011).
This was announced on October 21 by ...
22 October 2011
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of Archbishop of Dhaka and succession
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on October 22, 2011 accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dhaka (Bangladesh), presented by His Exc. Mgr.Paulinus Costa, in ...
22 October 2011
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A chain of prayer broadcast by radio Haja prepares World Mission day in the Diocese of Antsirabé
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Antsirabe in Madagascar celebrates World Mission Sunday preceded by weeks of preparation marked by moments of prayer and missionary animation. This is what Fr. Serge Faraklin ...
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