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31 July 2010
ASIA/YEMEN - Getting food to 300,000 internally displaced persons in northern Yemen
Sanaa (Agenzia Fides) – Getting food aid to more than 300,000 internally displaced persons IDPs in northern Yemen is a complex task for logistics and coordination. The United Nations World Food Programme, (WFP), with t ...
31 July 2010
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Second Course of Missionary Formation and Animation in Salta
Salta (Agenzia Fides) – Today 31 July, registration starts for the Second Course of Missionary Formation and Animation to be held in Salta, Argentina. Organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies and the mission pasto ...
31 July 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco archdiocese prepares for 2nd Holy/Missionary Childhood Congress
Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) – Fides received today news about preparations in the archdiocese of Cuzco, in Peru, for the 2nd archdiocesan Holy/Missionary Childhood Congress in which hundreds of children members of Holy Child ...
30 July 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - In view of constitutional referendum packed Ecumenical Prayer Service at Holy Family Basilica, Nairobi
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- The principal Churches in Kenya organised for today, 30 July, an ecumenical prayer service in view of a referendum on the country's Constitution to be held on 4 August.
“Members of the most im ...
30 July 2010
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Umpteenth River tragedy in Congo raises fluvial security issue once again
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- At least 140 people drowned in the waters of the River Kasai, a tributary of the Congo, when a ferry, on the way to the capital Kinshasa from Mushie, about 30km from the town of Bandundu, capsiz ...
30 July 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Eighty three year old priest found murdered in Oaxaca City, Mexico
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) – An eighty three year old priest was found dead in the evening of 28 July, in his parish, in Oaxaca City in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The priest had been gagged and tied up, the loca ...
30 July 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Arizona immigration law SB 1070: “selfish and irresponsible" say the Bishops of Mexico
Texcoco (Agenzia Fides) – A statement presented by Bishop Víctor René Rodríguez Gómez, Bishop of Texcoco and secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Mexico, a copy of the statement was sent to Fid ...
30 July 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Anti-Poverty Week 17 - 23 October
Sidney (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year the world will mark UN Anti-Poverty Day on 17 October. And as customary in recent years Australia will be holding its Anti-Poverty Week 17 - 23 October. Anti-Poverty Week w ...
29 July 2010
VATICAN - Letter to the Catholic Bishops and Priests of mainland China
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the Secretary of the same Congregation have addressed the following Letter to the Catholic Bishops an ...
29 July 2010
VATICAN - Comment on a Letter addressed to Catholics in China by Cardinal Ivan Dias
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Letter which Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has addressed to the bishops and priests of mainland China, stems from deep affection f ...
29 July 2010
AFRICA/UGANDA - A complex scenario appears behind the recent attacks in Kampala
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Investigations into the double terrorist attack on 11 July in the Ugandan capital continue. Responsibility for the attacks, which left 76 persons dead and hundreds injured, was claimed by Shabab, ...
29 July 2010
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Cardinal Joseph-Albert Malula (1917-1989) proclaimed “national hero ”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, the Catholic Archbishop of Kinshasa, has voiced the gratitude of the Catholic Church in Congo to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph K ...
29 July 2010
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Flash floods in western and north eastern provinces leave a wake of dead, injured and homeless people
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – According to the Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA), sudden floods in various part of Afghanistan killed 20 people and destroyed dozens of homes. The north eastern provi ...
29 July 2010
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UN Women: new United Nations entity to deal with the protection and promotion of women all over the world
New York (Agenzia Fides) – With an historic move, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation has instituted a new entity for the protection and promotion of women all over the world. The entity will come i ...
29 July 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bolivarian Meeting of Holy Childhood in Bogota
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – With the slogan "Children are the hope of a Church renewed in its missionary commitment ", from 27 to 30 July the First Bolivarian Meeting for leaders of Holy Childhood and Adolescent Missionar ...
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