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• 15 November 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "This suffering must end": The Bishops call for an immigration reform in 2013 Baltimore (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Los Angeles, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Gomez, who chairs the Committee on Migration of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the United States of America (USCCB), urged re-elected Pres ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II: Coptic Orthodox representatives may withdraw from the Constituent Assembly Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II hopes that the new Constitution in the process of being drafted retains without modification Article 2 of the previous text of the Constitution - which rec ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Car bomb outside a church in northeastern Syria Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - A car bomb exploded in front of the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, in the city of Raqqah, in northeastern Syria, causing two deaths and injuring a woman, all civilians. As confirmed by Fi ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - To form the youth so that they are followers of Christ; towards World Youth Day in Taiwan Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of young people, so that they are followers of Christ and witnesses of the Lord, was the objective of the fourth Taiwan Youth Ministers' Meeting (TYMM), which was held from Octobe ...
• 14 November 2012
  AMERICA/CUBA - A "sheet" that managed to arrive where the Church did not arrive...for 50 years Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Talking is still going on, in parishes and among the people of Cuba with regards to the celebration held on Sunday, November 4, presided over by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Archbishop of Havana, for ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for a Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy, in prison for seven years Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The ordeal of Younis Masih, 26 years of age at the time of his arrest, a Christian sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Mohammed, who for seven years has been in prison, is emblematic for ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA - Asian Bishops in Holy Land to "return to the sources" in the Year of Faith Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Returning to the sources and thinking about evangelization again, with a pilgrimage to Holy Land in the Year of Faith: with this spirit 120 Asian Bishops experienced, from November 6 to 12, a ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Families and especially children in the refugee camp of Atmeh, on the border between Syria and Turkey Atmeh (Agenzia Fides) - There are many children who have escaped the on-going bloody civil war in Syria and represent the majority of the displaced in the tents of the refugee camp of Atmeh, on the border between Syria a ...
• 14 November 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace process is necessary but difficult," said Cardinal Salazar Gomez Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace process is a necessary process. In Colombia it is very difficult to achieve a military victory, not because our army is not adequately prepared, but for the geographical conditions and for ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria loses $ 7 billion in lost revenue due to the theft of oil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria loses about $ 7 billion annually in lost revenue due to theft and loss of oil in the extraction plants and pipelines. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a body ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Trial for Rimsha has concluded: waiting for the verdict Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan is waiting with bated breath for the final verdict in the case of Rimsha Masih, a Christian girl, mentally disabled, accused of blasphemy and released on bail because the evidence aga ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - After the killing of police officers, the government sends the army Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan government has decided to assign the army to the police in the hunt for the gang responsible for the murder of police officers on November 10, in the village of Baragoi in the north o ...
• 14 November 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cholera outbreak: lack of health facilities and functional water systems Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The rate of the spread of cholera decreases in Guinea and Sierra Leone, whereas Guinea-Bissau in past days 1,500 cases and 9 deaths have been reported. Simão Mendes National Hospital, in the cap ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio Zenari: the unification of the opposition favors a political solution to the conflict Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The unification of various factions of the opposition to the Assad regime may be a "positive sign", provided that this initiative can "better serve the cause of finding a political solution to ...
• 13 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The consecration of new churches, sign of faith and the maturity of the continental community Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the missionary month of October which has just ended, several parishes consecrated their new church, as an eloquent sign of faith, evangelization and also the maturity of the Catholic ...