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26 July 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Even a truck can become a classroom
Manila (Fides Service)- A truck has been turned into a classroom so that it can accommodate up to 25 students at once and will offer lessons from Monday to Friday for four hours a day for children and street children lef ...
26 July 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO-Seven million young people who do not study and do not work, are easy prey for criminal organizations
(Mexico City Fides)- Seven million young people do not study and are unable to find a job, and risk being sucked into the criminal organizations that perfection their networks to recruit more and more young people who li ...
26 July 2011
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Izabal and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on July 26, 2011 accepted the resignation of the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal (Guatemala), by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez B ...
26 July 2011
AFRICA/LIBYA - "Food stores are hit, but with what right?" Complains Mgr. Martinelli
Tripoli (Fides Service) - "They are hitting civilian targets such as food stores" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to Fides. "A few days ago, NATO warplanes hit a food s ...
26 July 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Maiduguri to Fides: "an intolerable climate of violence, the attacks continue almost every day"
Maiduguri (Fides Service) - "At the moment I cannot confirm the reports of Amnesty International with regards to the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the forces of antiterrorism", says His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe D ...
26 July 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Medical facilities in the northwestern areas of conflict are on the brink of collapse
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - In the last three years, doctors and nurses at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, have been particularly busy. The hospital, one of the largest in the country, moni ...
26 July 2011
AMERICA/CHILE - The Church proposes dialogue on an issue which is still open: Public education
Santiago (Fides) – The Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati, has stressed his appeal to put a stop to violence and seek solutions through dialogue, after talking for about an hour and a half with ...
26 July 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Humanitarian emergency: the Church's commitment
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Church to assist the Somali people fleeing from hunger and war who have taken refuge in neighboring states continues, particularly in Kenya. His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, ...
25 July 2011
VATICAN-The Pope renews the appeal "to abandon forever the path of hatred and to escape from the logic of evil"
Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again, unfortunately, we hear news of death and violence - said Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, July 24, after the Angelus prayer he recited from the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandol ...
25 July 2011
ASIA/CHINA-The Catholics of Wen Zhou give aid to the wounded and pray for the railway accident victims
Wen Zhou (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics were among the first volunteers to help the injured and yesterday during the mass prayed for the railway accident victims. Those who are helping are from the Diocese of Wen Zh ...
25 July 2011
ASIA/INDIA-The Christian outcasts are organizing protests and hunger strike for equal rights
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) Thousands of Dalits, Christians and Muslims, known as the "untouchables" of India, gathered in the streets of New Delhi to protest in favor of equal rights within society. In India, the Dalits ...
25 July 2011
AFRICA/MALAWI - Crisis in Malawi: does the history of 1992 repeat itself? Testimony of a missionary
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The situation remains tense in Malawi the day after the national protest held on July 20 which degenerated into accidents provoking deaths and injuries (see Fides 20/7/2001, 22/7/2011). Fr. Pie ...
25 July 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - "It is necessary to accompany political action to humanitarian action" says the Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu to Fides
Mogadishu (Fides Service) - "I would not want the race to meet the humanitarian emergency, necessary to save millions of people, however, hides the root problem, which is the lack of state structure", says His Exc. Mgr ...
25 July 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Those who govern should ask for the wisdom to distinguish between good and evil: this is Cardinal Terrazas Sandoval's appeal
Santa Cruz (Fides Service)- Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval has urged government authorities to set aside punishment and to ask God for wisdom to distinguish between good and evil. The Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la ...
25 July 2011
AMERICA/PERU- A new canteen for malnourished children in the suburbs of the capital has been inaugurated
Lima (Agenzia Fides)- As part of the celebrations for the 21 years of their arrival in Peru, the nuns of the “Little Daughters of St. Francis of Assisi” have opened a new canteen for malnourished children in the area ...
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