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14 October 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Food security and development in 60 farming communities in Bolivia
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The area of Valle Central de Tarija, Bolivia, is benefiting from the "Proyecto de Seguridad Alimentaria y Desarrollo Económico de 60 comunidades campesinas,” being sponsored by IICCA (Institut ...
13 October 2010
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Murder of Baptist pastor who worked for human rights and morals
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Today, October 13, at 9 am Joseph Saliba, 42, pastor of a Baptist church in the Philippines was shot and killed by a gunman in broad daylight while traveling in his car in Quezon City, in downt ...
13 October 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - A trip to the missionary world, thanks to the Xaverian Missionaries' new site
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Xaverian Missionaries have recently launched a new website at: http://www.saveriani.com. According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, “the General Direction thus intends to present the m ...
13 October 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rape and murder of Christian girls
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Brutal violence has been committed against two Christian girls: Lubna Masih, age 12, was raped and murdered by a group of Muslims in Rawalpindi and Kiran Nayyaz of Faisalabad, a 13-year-old ...
13 October 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence Against Women - Brief Overview
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against women in Pakistan, especially against Christian workers, is a phenomenon that is ascertained, but often met with indifference or impunity.
According to the Pakistani NGO “A ...
13 October 2010
AFRICA - Several African oil-producing countries are at the bottom of the list in transparency of oil revenues
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Some of the major African oil-producers are among the countries with the least amount of transparency regarding use of oil revenues, according to the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), a non-profit i ...
13 October 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - Church in Chile praying for miners' rescue
Copiapo (Agenzia Fides) – The main streets of Copiapo, some 830 kilometers north of Santiago, have been overrun by motorists sounding horns and trumpets. The city, located in the Atacama desert, with over 200,000 inhab ...
13 October 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social-Pastoral program in Patagonia working for common good and defense of human rights
Rawson (Agenzia Fides) – Rawson, located in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina, recently hosted the Eleventh Meeting of Pastoral/Social Formation of the region Patagonia-Comahue, whose main theme was "The comm ...
13 October 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese priests and religious recall Abbot Timothy Thomas Kelly, OSB, great benefactor of the Catholic community on the mainland
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The priests and religious of mainland China have recalled Abbot Thomas Timothy Kelly, OSB, Abbot of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA), with deep emotion as a benefacto ...
13 October 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child labor emergency for minor flood victims
Jacobabad (Agenzia Fides) - Flood victims across Pakistan have been returning home to villages where houses have been reduced to piles of mud and brick, farmland ravaged and streets reduced to swamps. Some families are h ...
12 October 2010
VATICAN - Pope's reflection at opening of Synod: “faith is the foundation, and, undoubtedly, the foundations of the earth cannot be shaken if they remain close to the faith, to true wisdom”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During the First General Congregation of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops, on Monday, October 11, the Holy Father Benedict XVI gave the meditation followin ...
12 October 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA - Possibility of national unity government after presidential ballot is good news
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – "This is good news, because Guinea needs to continue on the road of national unity, which has until now been well managed by the National Transitional Council (CNT),” Fides learned from a lo ...
12 October 2010
VATICAN - Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization instituted: “The whole Church presents herself to the contemporary world with a missionary thrust capable of promoting a new evangelization.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church has the duty to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” These are the opening lines of the Apostolic Letter written in “motu proprio” entitled “Ubi ...
12 October 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - Christian leaders in Sudan warn UN of risk for war if people are left unheard
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people of southern Sudan expect to fulfil their right of self-determination on the 9th of January 2011. Denial of this right, for whatever reason, represents a fundamental denial of thei ...
12 October 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Refugee Card” amidst chaos, corruption, nepotism, and favors
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Chaos and corruption are impairing the project of "Watan Card," the so-called "Refugee Card" assigned by the government to displaced people. This is what local NGOs engaged in the field for ...
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