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1 October 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA-Children emergency, the victims mostly affected by food crisis
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Somali children are the victims mostly affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa. The latest estimates indicate that people under 18 represent 80% of the 121 000 refugees housed in ...
1 October 2011
AFRICA/SENEGAL-Sharing the Gospel, communicating the good news: the original contribution of Christians in Senegal and Mauritania to the construction of their Countries
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Missionary Month is a renewed commitment of all Christians of our two Countries to witness the Gospel in the wake of the new evangelization. A commitment of our Churches to make the Good News ...
1 October 2011
VATICAN - Archbishop Hon Tai-Fai calls for religious freedom, justice and peace in Pakistan
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pakistan needs "respect for freedom of religion and of conscience, which is the hallmark of justice and peace": says Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, Secretary of the Congregation for the Ev ...
1 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Year of the Mission, among the obstacles of extremism and Islamization
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of the Mission" in Pakistan was launched today in Karachi. As reported to Fides, the local Church has started the initiative, focused on the theme "Duc in Altum", at the conclusion of ...
1 October 2011
VATICAN-"To be the heart that generates love for Evangelization": the appeal of Archbishop Filoni, Prefect of the missionary Dicastery
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, making St. Therese of Lisieux’s intuition its own , patroness of missions, wants to be in the body of the Church, the heart from which ...
1 October 2011
VATICAN-"The proclamation of the Gospel brings solidarity, dignity, justice, ecology", says Archbishop Filoni at the beginning of missionary month
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Development of peoples, solidarity, dignity of life, moral support, promotion of justice, knowledge of peoples and ethnic groups far away, respect for creation: are the fruits that the proc ...
1 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Governor Taseer's murderer sentenced to death, the Christians: "Courageous decision, but No to capital punishment "
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri to death, former Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer’s murderer. He had fought to defend Asia Bibi, a Christian woman ...
30 September 2011
"So that the celebration of World Mission Day may increase in the People of God the passion for evangelism and support to the missionary activity through prayer and economic aid to the poorest Churches" - Comment on the Missionary Intention for October 2011
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Church celebrates World Mission Day. It is a day destined to revive in all the faithful, even the pastors, the awareness that the Church is by her very nature missionary, bec ...
30 September 2011
EUROPE/ALBANIA - Cardinal Erdo: "We ask the democratic governments and the European Union to be more demanding towards the governments of countries where religious freedom is not respected"
Tirana (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, all experts who check the situation of religious freedom in the world agree that Christians are those most persecuted because of their faith. This worries us very much. There is no real s ...
30 September 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - The government stop-work of the dam on the Irrawaddy: civil society celebrates, the Bishops are satisfied
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In an unprecedented decision that surprised observers, the government of Myanmar has announced the stop-work of the Myitsone dam on the Irrawaddy River in the north of the country. President Thei ...
30 September 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA -Multiple threats between different extremist groups on the eve of Independence Day
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Tension on the eve for the celebrations of national Independence which will be celebrated tomorrow, October 1, in Nigeria. Both the Islamist Boko Haram sect, originally from the north of the Cou ...
30 September 2011
AFRICA/KENYA - Thousands of people infected by an epidemic of dengue
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Over one thousand people have been infected by an epidemic of dengue outbreak in the town of Mandera, in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. The Ministry of Public He ...
30 September 2011
ASIA/NEPAL - Insufficient resources for drug addict children in Dharan
Dharan (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50% of children in Dharan, one of the largest cities of Nepal bordering India, is involved in drug use. Most of these children’s parents are away for work and then left alone, unsuper ...
30 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - "Justice for the martyrs of Orissa": Christians' appeal to the National Commission for Human Rights
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The suffering of Christians must not disappear from the national political agenda and can be the drive to approve the bill on violence against minorities: this is why Indian Christians have wr ...
30 September 2011
ASIA/CHINA - "A Word of God a day" for the year 2012 has been published
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "A Word of God a day" for 2012 has been published by Faith of He Bei. According to information received by Fides, Faith has been publishing "A Word of God a day" for 4 years, with great ...
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