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• 15 January 2013
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Worrying increase in malnutrition among refugees in Mali Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - In Mbera refugee camp in eastern Mauritania, there are 55,000 refugees from Mali, among these 1 in 5 children are malnourished and 4.6% suffer from severe malnutrition. According to the lates ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal’s message for the parliamentary elections in Jordan: citizens go to vote Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Fouad Twal, has sent a message to the "dear children" of Jordan in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for January 23. In the message, ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop the killing of innocent people": Bishop Vera Lopez’s appeal after the death of a student Saltillo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, His Exc. Mgr. Raúl Vera López, denounced that, because of the number of deaths due to violence, a real scandal of the country, it is necessary that s ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church to the Head of the police: "Sex education is important" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Sex education for children and young Indians? In the lively debate that is taking place in the country - following numerous cases of group rapes that have attracted national and international att ...
• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Signs of hope after the tragic earthquake in Haiti Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the terrible earthquake that devastated the island of Haiti, in spite of the great difficulty the Caribbean nation is still facing, the stories of some of its inhabitants are mar ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in Makurdi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 September 2012 appointed Rev. Godwin Atede of the clergy of the diocese of Idah as Rector of t ...
• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 23 November 2012 confirmed rev.Stane Kerin, of the archdiocese of Ljubljana as National Director ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese scholars is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The 50th anniversary of Vatican II was the central theme of the Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars 2012 organized by the "Beijing Institute for the Study of Christian Cul ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops against rape: "The dignity of each person is sacred: the challenge is education" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - As another episode of gang rape shakes the nation – the victim, a 29 year-old a woman in Punjab, raped by six men in Amristar – the Bishops of India reaffirm "the sanctity of life and the ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The local population is comforted by the French military intervention; the Church in aid of the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Malian population is greatly comforted by the French military intervention. After jihadist groups had taken the city of Konna on January 10, Malians had in fact held their breath, fearing th ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Seats "reserved" for the Copts in the next election? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – In the next parliamentary elections a Party of Coptic inspiration could be part of the list, with the declared function to represent the demands of the sectors of society - women, urban youth gr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastor forced to lock down a parish for the violence, and the faithful return to Mass Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - All around there is a-five-meter high wall of reinforced concrete, the walls are evidence of bombings and car bombings. Metal blocks were also placed on the windows to prevent stray bullets fr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "After the Tunisian revolution irreversible changes in the Arab world," said Mgr. Lahham Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "In these two years since the so-called 'Jasmine Revolution', two irreversible developments have taken place in Tunisia, and more generally in the Arab world," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. M ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Campaign against illiteracy: The Church supports the initiative in favor of 850 thousand people Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial dedicated to the National Campaign for Literacy published by "Camino", the National Catholic weekly of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Catholic Church welco ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools reopen after the typhoon but there is still no electricity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - After the passage of devastating typhoon Bopha, which hit the country recently (see Fides 06/12/2012), thousands of children in the southern island of Mindanao are returning to school, late in co ...