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• 7 October 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - III World Conference on Child Labour Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The III World Conference on Child Labour will be held from 8th to 10th of October, in Brasilia, in the course of which the main challenges to eliminate all forms of child exploitation will be d ...
• 7 October 2013
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the Korean seminarians: "be a man of God, not administrators or bureaucrats" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The last meeting of the pastoral visit in Korea of Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was reserved for seminarians, on Saturday afternoon, Oct ...
• 5 October 2013
  VATICAN – Cardinal Filoni at the Sanctuary of Choltusan: "Even today, the Korean people and the Church in Korea need the example of their own Martyrs to find vigor and strength" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days before the conclusion of the "Month of Martyrs", as proclaimed by the Archdiocese of Seoul in commemoration of all the Korean martyrs who laid down their lives for the Gospel, Cardina ...
• 5 October 2013
  VATICAN - "The proclamation of the salvific message to our Korean people remains a common and primary responsibility": meeting of Cardinal Filoni with the lay faithful Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Every time that the Church in Korea is spoken about in the world, one cannot fail to recall that your beginnings are bound to the extraordinary initiative and decision of a group of lay scholars, ...
• 5 October 2013
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The invitation of the PMS: The mission must rely on the dynamism and generosity of the youth Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Youth in Mission" is the theme of the 2013 missionary campaign that the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil submitted to the national press along with a rich program of initiatives fo ...
• 5 October 2013
  EUROPE/GERMANY – Missionary campaign 2013 dedicated to Egypt begins Cologne (Agenzia Fides) - The solemn Eucharistic celebration which will take place in the Cathedral of Cologne on Sunday, October 6, marks the opening of the "Missio" Campaign and the missionary month, which this year is ...
• 5 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – A tabernacle has been desecrated, there are fears of the actions of Satanists Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - The tabernacle of the Catholic Church of St. Anthony in Aluva, in the Indian state of Kerala (southern India), was desecrated and the hosts stolen. As reported to Fides, the episode which occurre ...
• 5 October 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY – A university conference on «crypto-Armenians» Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Foundation Hrant Dink –born to cherish the memory and ideals of the Turkish writer and journalist of Armenian descent who was assassinated in January 2007 - has begun work on a study conf ...
• 4 October 2013
  VATICAN - "Religious life cannot be anything but Christological and ecclesiological" recalls Cardinal Filoni Chojinam (Agenzia Fides) - Continuing his pastoral visit in Korea, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on Friday, October 4 went to Chojinam to visit the graves of the ...
• 4 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - "Share your faith ... and also your bread": missionary month in the sign of the Year of Faith Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is not a relief organization, an enterprise or an NGO, but a community of people, animated by the Holy Spirit, who have lived and are living the wonder of the encounter with Jesus Chris ...
• 4 October 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The World Council of Churches to the Premier: "We urgently need to protect religious minorities" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The World Council of Churches (WCC ) calls on the Pakistani government to "protect Pakistani Christians and all religious minorities from terrorism": is what is stated in a letter sent by the ...
• 4 October 2013
  AFRICA - Lampedusa : "To fight against traffickers and help migrant Countries" proposes Mgr.Bertin Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To put human trafficking organizations under control and help the social, political and economic development of migrant Countries. These are the proposals made in an interview with Fides, by Mgr. ...
• 4 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Churches and Pastors are being targeted in Karnataka Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - There has been a surge in anti-Christian attacks in the state of Karnataka: as reported to Fides Agency by the "Evangelical Fellowship of India", which brings together thousands of evangelical ...
• 4 October 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Year of Faith: catechetical competition and Seminar on marriage Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - A catechism competition in view of the closure of the Year of Faith, for formation in faith, love, prayer and evangelization. The catechetical competition was sponsored by the deanery of Yong J ...
• 4 October 2013
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Southeast Asia hit by typhoons, torrential rains, floods Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The torrential rains that have isolated the various Countries of Southeast Asia have caused the death of 96 people and affected about 3 million inhabitants. According to the International Red ...