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27 June 2011
AFRICA-Projects and centers for boys and girls in difficulty
Rome (Fides Service) – For decades in many African countries, village communities have provided aid and protection to children, especially in rural areas, where children, in the absence of parents, were entrusted to el ...
27 June 2011
ASIA/CHINA- Missionary mandate to 305 lay of the parish of Fu Shun, a sign of the Diocese’s vitality in Liao Ning
Fu Shun (Fides Service) - 305 lay missionaries, divided into 11 groups, of the parish of Fu Shun of the Diocese in Liao Ning, received the missionary mandate by the parish priest on the solemnity of the Pentecost, thus c ...
27 June 2011
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU-Pastoral workers from Bissau at a conference: verification and programming of the pastoral year
Bissau (Fides Service) - The pastoral year in the diocese of Bissau officially closed yesterday, Sunday, June 26 and the diocesan pastoral workers are now called to verify what has been done over the past year and plan ...
27 June 2011
AMERICA/MEXICO-A group of Central American immigrants kidnapped by gunmen in Veracruz
Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Migrants ("Hermanos en el Camino"), directed by father Alejandro Solalinde, reported that last Friday, June 24, a train which left from Ixtepec, Oaxaca, heading towards Veracruz, ...
27 June 2011
ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop to the Kachin people, in the middle of the conflict: "Have faith in God, little flock"
Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - The war gives no respite in the state of Kachin, in northern Myanmar. While violence continues, putting a strain on the civilian population, through Caritas Myanmar (Karuna) solidarity towards ...
27 June 2011
AMERICA/ARGENTINA-"Choose life instead of drugs": the Church invites young people to reflect
Lujan (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Argentina has denounced that "the plague of drug use is expanding", and has asked the authorities to implement policies aimed at helping those suffering from addiction. Even eight mo ...
25 June 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - An appeal on the case of Farah Hatim, the Catholic girl Islamized by force, will be presented to the UN
Geneva (Fides Service) - A detailed report on the case of Farah Hatim, the Catholic girl kidnapped and forcibly Islamized (see Fides 13/6/2011 and previous days), will be presented in the next few weeks at the UN Council ...
25 June 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A documentary about Christians? No thanks: foreign journalists unwelcomed
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Visa applications have been lying in the folders for several months. The Pakistani government shows they do not like foreign journalists who want to document and make inquiries about the lives ...
25 June 2011
VATICAN - Benedict XVI to MWAEC: "do everything possible in the East, where the pastors and faithful of Christ were born and may remain «not as foreigners», but as «fellow citizens» "
Vatican City (Fides Service) - "I ask you to do everything possible, even affecting the Public Institutions with whom you come into contact on an international level, because in the East, where the pastors and faithful o ...
25 June 2011
EUROPE/ITALY - The beatification of Father Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, in the name of simplicity and solidarity
Milan (Fides Service) – On Sunday, June 26, in Duomo Square in Milan, Father Clemente Vismara (1897-1988), missionary of PIFM (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), known as the "Patriarch of Burma" for having sp ...
25 June 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Nan Jing, with a group of priests and faithful, in the pastoral exchange visit in the Korean diocese of Daejeon
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of vocations, evangelization and social services, in the footsteps of the Holy Martyrs in Korea, highly regarded by the local Church in Daejeon, South Korea, have strongly impresse ...
25 June 2011
AMERICA/CHILE-Building a quality learning model of education, fair and right, is everyone's responsibility
Santiago, Chile (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of student protests, the Chilean bishops have stressed the urgency of researching proposals that meet with a broad consensus, in order to give the processes the go-ahead ...
25 June 2011
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR-Poverty and malnutrition for 2 Malagasy children out of 3
South Amboasary (Fides Service) - Two out of three Malagasy children live in poverty and 50% of children under five years of age has growth problems because of malnutrition. The situation is particularly serious in the c ...
25 June 2011
AMERICA/CUBA - Support of the Church to train managers in small and medium enterprises and cooperatives
La Habana (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has organized a course for the training of experts in small enterprises (PYMES) and cooperatives, already approved among the reforms expected by Cuban President Raul Castro ...
25 June 2011
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The necessary distinction between child labor and exploitation
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Statistics indicate that over 800,000 children have a full time job in Bolivia, one-fifth of the population in the age group between 5 and 14 years. Shoe-shine boys and girls work in La Paz, wear ...
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