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• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Year of Faith: a pastoral Letter denouncing violence Escuintla (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to "move from sin to life" with this invitation the Pastoral Letter of the Diocese of Escuintla begins, on the occasion of Lent in the Year of Faith 2013. In the text sent by the Ep ...
• 26 February 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Community of Santiago greets the first missionary of St. Colombano in Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – He was a missionary who gave a valuable contribution to the whole Church of Santiago: Fr. Hugo Mc Gonagle, an Irish priest and missionary of St. Colombano, who died last February 18 at the ag ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mainland Catholic community walks intensely spiritual path marked by faith and evangelisation Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – An intensely spiritual path walked by the Chinese mainland Catholic community, was marked by spiritual direction and formation in the faith and evangelisation . According to He Bei di ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Appeal for electoral campaign without violence and with transparency San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) – As the time approaches for the start of the electoral campaign for 2014 presidential elections, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, says the local Catholic Chu ...
• 25 February 2013
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - “Integrate Framework Agreement for Congo” say NGOs Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The appointment of a special high profile UN envoy with power to mediate at the domestic and regional level; the inclusion civil society and Kinshasa ‘s principal donors partners in the propo ...
• 25 February 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Rich 20% of population silent to plight of 80% poor Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Malawi have expressed gratitude for the solution to a serious two week tug of war between the government and civil servants demanding a 67% pay rise. Protests caused ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Gregory III appeals: "the sending of arms to Syria must be stopped": Damasco (Agenzia Fides)-"We appeal to the whole world to stop arms from being sent to Syria". This call was part of a statement sent to Fides by His Beatitude, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham following ...
• 25 February 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “We must all support efforts to continue the dialogue for peace” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “We must all support and defend efforts to promote peace” the national director of Social Pastoral of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia , Mgr. Héctor Fabio Henao, told the pr ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Terror attacks in Hyderabad, Christian defend local Muslims: “they are not terrorists” Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – No hasty conclusions, no labelling Muslims “terrorists”: the call comes from Indian lay Catholic church groups, following violence in Hyderabad, in India’s southern eastern state of A ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Social inclusion and “unity in diversity”: a challenge for the Church Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – Building a society where no one is excluded, no one is marginalised, where diverse social and religious components work together for the common good, is a challenge for the Church: this is ...
• 23 February 2013
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The “righteous” in the Armenian genocide Erevan (Agenzia Fides) – The Armenian authorities have decided to dedicate a section of the museum of the Armenian Genocide in Erevan to the memory of those Turks and Kurds who helped Armenians during the massacre whic ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishops tell Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “No arms, no nuclear power, the Constitution cannot be changed” Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgently necessary to safeguard article 9 of Japan’s Constitution which declares “explicit and absolute renouncement of war” on the part of the government. A clear “no” must be ...
• 23 February 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Solidarity and sobriety: the solution to the crisis Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The solution to the economic crisis is greater solidarity and greater sobriety of life style: this was said by the Catholic Archbishop of Huancayo, Archbishop Mons. Pedro Barreto Jimeno SJ, ...
• 23 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Elections at Easter: Copts protest, possible postponement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The decision taken by President Morsi to hold parliamentary elections in Egypt on a date which would coincide with Coptic Easter celebrations may be reconsidered, following a protest by Egyptian ...
• 22 February 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Say NO to the dirty money of drug traffickers": Bishop Sandoval urges his diocese Guachochi (Agenzia Fides) – The government is absent and in its place bands of drug traffickers keep capillary control of the territory: in this situation Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, Bishop of Tarahumara diocese, ...