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• 27 September 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-Islamic schools also targeted by Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist sect Boko Haram target not only churches and schools, but also Islamic schools, as what happened on September 25 in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State (north-east Nigeria), where a gro ...
• 27 September 2012
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - A Bishop joins the "Commission for Life and water" Tacuarembó (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop of the diocese of Tacuarembó (Uruguay), His Exc. Mgr. Julio César Bonino Bonino, announced his decision to join the "Commission Tacuarembó for life and water," which aims to pr ...
• 26 September 2012
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Archbishop of Santiago is with the students: it is necessary to get free education Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A vibrant request, addressed to all Chileans, to commit themselves to winning back trust, was made by the Archbishop of Santiago, His Exc. Mgr. Ricardo Ezzati, on the occasion of the Te Deum ce ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - "Friendship is the key to winning the mutual fears of Christians and Muslims," says to Fides the Bishop of Laghouat Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to inform ourselves, and not take everything that is proposed by the press and television as a true representation of the Muslim world. They show only the negative aspects, and instead it ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA - HIV/AIDS is easily curable in developed Countries, this does not happen in Africa and Madagascar: A decade of the Jesuit network AJAN Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The African Jesuit network against AIDS (AJAN) has just celebrated its ten years of life. In fact the network was set up by the Conference of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar (JESAM) in ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Plenary Assembly of Bishops has begun: Year of Faith and Africae Munus are the focus of the Assembly Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith, which starts on 11 October, the diffusion and implementation of the directives of the Post Synodal Africae Munus Apostolic Exhortation, the preparation of the AMECEA (Associa ...
• 26 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Reconciliation ceremony for the release of Christian hostages Rableh (Agenzia Fides) - Bells ring in celebration, hugs among family members reunited, a Mass of Thanksgiving and a solemn interfaith ceremony of reconciliation: this is what happened yesterday in the village of Rableh, ...
• 26 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious leaders: Pakistan asks UN a resolution against blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the participants at the conference on respect for religions ask you to immediately prohibit the diffusion of the film 'The Innocence of Muslims'. We ask the government of Pakistan and civil ...
• 26 September 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "To become active subjects in the transformation of the country": today the pastoral Letter of the Bishops Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua arrived yesterday, September 25, in Matagalpa (a city about 100 km north of Managua), which will host the meeting of the Episcopal Conference. In the note sent to Fide ...
• 26 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Together let us defend and respect human life" donation of the philanthropic governmental organization to Jinde Charities of the Catholic Church Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The first donation of 21 wheelchairs, offered by the Chinese Association of the Sick and by the Starlight Foundation of China Charities Aid Foundation for Children (government agency), wa ...
• 25 September 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Rosary, a help for the missions, especially in the Year of Faith: Congress of the Rosary of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Rosary is the school of faith" will be the theme of the Congress of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Rosary to be held on Saturday, October 6 at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary ...
• 25 September 2012
  EUROPE/MALTA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on June 20, 2012 confirmed Rev. Salvinu Micallef, of the archdiocesan clergy of Malta as National Di ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - 150 Greek-Catholic faithful kidnapped Homs (Agenzia Fides) – The kidnapping of 150 Greek-Catholic faithful, which occured yesterday September 24, has shocked the Christian community in the village of Rableh, between the Lebanese border and the city of Qusa ...
• 25 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Father Bossi, exemplary missionary, builder of bridges and... churches ... Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Bossi was a great example of missionary life lived to the end. He was motivated by an authentic missionary spirit, of simplicity and sharing with the poor. Everyone remembers him ...
• 25 September 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found murdered, violence does not spare the Church Los Mochis (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of a large number of worshipers, on Sunday, September 23, the Catholic community of the deanery of Sinaloa gave a final farewell to the priest Teodoro Mariscal Rivas, f ...