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18 January 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Floods: serious damages to farms and to housing in northern zones
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Serious damage to farms has been caused by heavy summer rains affecting South Africa and which have destroyed numerous houses. The province most seriously affected is the Northern Cape, ...
18 January 2011
ASIA/MALAYSIA - An ancient Latin-Malay Dictionary is the litmus test to allow Christians to use the word “Allah”
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) – An ancient Latin-Malay Dictionary, edited by the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in 1631, represents for the Catholic Church in Malaysia “the litmus test” in the question ...
18 January 2011
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - The international community continues to mediate, but also prepares for military intervention in the end
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – Between attempts at dialogue and signs of a possible military intervention, the international community continues to add pressure to relieve Côte d'Ivoire from the political-institutional cri ...
18 January 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was the victim of a street ambush,” the Bishop of Doruma-Dungu tells Fides
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “Sister Jeanne Yegmane was killed in a street ambush. It does not appear to be a targeted killing,” Bishop Richard Domba Madiy of Doruma-Dungu, in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, te ...
18 January 2011
VATICAN - The Pope sends 200 Neo-Catechumenal families out on mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “I am especially pleased today to be able to send out in various parts of the world, more than 200 new families, who with great generosity have made themselves available and are leaving ...
17 January 2011
AFRICA/TUNISIA - The crisis of the “Tunisian model” and the world of the Middle East
Tunisi (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Tunisia remains tense and uncertain, especially in the capital city of Tunisi, after President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali left the country in the wake of a popular protest which b ...
17 January 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic fundamentalism: the root of the problem is youth education
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – At the root of increasing intolerance and the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan is the vexing problem of the education system and of the teaching given to children and youth, upholds ...
17 January 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Protestant pastor killed in Orissa “because he was a man of reconciliation”
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – “This was murder. My brother had blood oozing out of his mouth, hands and legs tied in an unnatural way and his clothes were torn,” Fides was told by Dushashan Pradhan, brother to Pent ...
17 January 2011
VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope recalls that even “the Son of God was a refugee” and prays for the people affected by floods in Australia, Brazil, Philippines and Sri Lanka
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the World Day for Migrants and Refugees, Sunday, 16 January, the Holy Father Benedict XVI invited all to reflect on his prior Address at the Angelus, on the experience “of many men a ...
17 January 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The Apostolic Exhortation “Verbum Domini” theme of corse for priests in the diocese of Feng Xiang
Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “Verbum Domini”, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Holy Father Benedict XVI on the Word of God in the life and the mission of the Church was the principal theme for the cou ...
17 January 2011
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Christian charity has a great evangelising force in the measure in which it leaves the sign of God's love among men
Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “Human mobility and evangelization: challenge of a new millennium” was the theme addressed yesterday by the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant ...
17 January 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - “The referendum was held peacefully but we fear a food shortage,” Bishop of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “Based on initial counts of the votes, more than 80% of the voters of West Equatoria have voted for independence” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussaka of Tombura-Yambio tells Fides, from southern S ...
17 January 2011
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Number of deaths reaches 600, collecting aid continues
Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) – According to information send to Fides from the Archdiocese of Rio, the number of deaths due to the torrential rains in recent days has already risen above 600 and is so elevated that t ...
17 January 2011
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Little damage to Brisbane Catholic schools who will reopen shortly
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – The floods in Brisbane appear to have caused limited physical damage to Catholic schools, said Brisbane Catholic Education. “There has, of course, been a significant impact on the homes of ...
17 January 2011
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Online school to achieve high school diploma
Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) – In recent days the most recent project initiated by the Guanellian missions in Colombia has taken off: an online school to achieve an high school diploma. “The project,” says Father Co ...
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