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• 19 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "There is no mission without missionaries": 14,000 Spanish missionaries in the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day is celebrated on Sunday, October 21 also in the whole of Spain, known under the name of "Domund." The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, Fr. A ...
• 19 October 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "It is time to make a quantum leap to promote, support and assist the laity," said Mgr. Aguiar Retes Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Aguiar Retes, speaking with journalists during a break of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization which he is at ...
• 19 October 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 30 armed groups in the east of the Country: "the weakness of the State favours their proliferation" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – There are more than 30 armed groups operating in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in North Kivu. This is what is stated in a report by the UN Mission fo ...
• 19 October 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Alarm concerning the vulnerability of girls, adolescents and young women Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The most vulnerable part of the population in Guatemala is made up of young women who are victims of different kinds of violence. This is what the director of the Office for the Protectio ...
• 19 October 2012
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission: To restore hope to the people of the Philippines devastated by the Typhoon Ondoy Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - In all the parishes and dioceses of Australia, World Mission Day, October 21 will lead to a particular commitment for the Pontifical Mission Societies in the country (Catholic Mission Australia). ...
• 19 October 2012
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Catholic University to offer new chances to young Iraqis Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 20 at 4.30 pm: in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, within an area of 30 thousand square meters made available by the Chaldean Chu ...
• 19 October 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Year of Faith: Catechism in Urdu is useful for Christians and Muslims Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "An effort to renew catechesis, as the Pope asks us in Porta fidei is necessay in Pakistan. This commitment is up to priests, religious and lay missionaries, and one can carry it forward wi ...
• 19 October 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Living as a Christian in the hell of Aleppo": the testimony of a priest Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Aleppo are victims of death and destruction due to the fighting which for months, has been affecting the city. The Christian neighborhoods, in recent times, have been hit by rebel f ...
• 19 October 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Choose honest leaders, regardless of their religion," urges the Vicar of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "What comes first, the integrity of leaders or their religious affiliation? Wish to be governed by a dishonest leader belonging to your religious affiliation or an honest leader, regardless of h ...
• 18 October 2012
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christians before the conflicts in the Middle East Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The demands of the Arab peoples in order to obtain constitutional, economic and social reforms are just and legitimate, but what is not right is the fact of imposing such changes "from the outside ...
• 18 October 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - With an event in the city park, the Year of Faith in the Diocese of Tai Nan begins Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – An event in a public park in the town of Tai Nan to present the activities and organization of the Catholic Church officially opened on 13 October, the Year of Faith in the Diocese of Tai Nan ...
• 18 October 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "It is a great thing to serve others": the testimony of a missionary Camillian doctor from Burkina Faso Verona (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian priest, Father Paul Ouedraogo, a doctor, has just finished his specialization in pediatrics in Italy and is preparing to return to Burkina Faso, his country of origin, where he will ...
• 18 October 2012
  VATICAN - The missionary world at the opening of the Council: in a year 40 new Bishops in missions Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the overview of "The Missionary Year 1961-1962", published in the August 4, 1962 edition, Fides Agency emphasizes the significant number of new Bishops appointed in mission territories ...
• 18 October 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and FARC has started behind closed-door Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released a joint statement confirming the meeting for Dialogue for peace in Oslo, capital of Norway, albeit behin ...
• 18 October 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The violence is antithetical to the true values preached by Christianity and Islam, says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The need to return to the true values of Christianity and Islam to create a Nigerian society that lives in peace and harmony. This is the appeal launched by His Exc Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, A ...