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• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Calm situation, but we are waiting for the conclusion of the Friday prayers," said the Archbishop of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, at least for now. We have to wait the end of the Friday prayers in the mosques of the city to see if there are any new demonstrations" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Bonifac ...
• 31 August 2012
  AMERICA/HAITI - One child out of 10 is compelled to forced work: they are the restavek, invisible and vulnerable victims Port au Prince - With 225,000 working children, mainly girls between 5 and 17 years of age, child labor, a form of modern slavery, is unfortunately a very common practice in Haiti and is continually increasing since the ...
• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 270 miners have been incriminated in the deaths on August 16, "there is a risk of new protests," said the local Bishop Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is very strange that miners are incriminated in the deaths on 16 August and not the police officers who fired real bullets against demonstrators" said to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowli ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "The anti-conversion law violates the Constitution": landmark ruling for Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-conversion law passed in the state of Hhimachal Pradesh (in northern India) is, in some parts, "unconstitutional". In fact, "a person not only has the right to freedom of conscience, ...
• 30 August 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Next Sunday there will a collection in all the churches for the victims of the explosion at the refinery in Amuay and of natural disasters Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd September, all the churches in Caracas will become centers for food, medicine and equipment to be sent to those who in recent weeks have been the victims of natu ...
• 30 August 2012
  VATICAN - The Pope: "Prayer is not time wasted, nor is it time robbed from activities, including apostolic, rather it is exactly the opposite" Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In his speech at the General Audience on Wednesday, August 29, held in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father Benedict XVI based his discourse on ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha, new postponement: the counter-party does not recognize the medical report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian girl accused of blasphemy in Pakistan gets more and more complicated. This morning, at the hearing before the judge Javad Abbas, a Court of ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Thanksgiving and sharing: the theme of the Day of the indigenous peoples Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Thanksgiving and sharing: this is the invitation by Monsignor J. B. Tseng Chien-Tsi, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Lien Hwa and President of the Commission for the Apostolate of the Aborigi ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Marikana mine: "The first goal is to make peace among the members," says the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "I am not aware of the progress concerning the trade union negotiations, I just know that yesterday government authorities held a meeting with the unions to find a peace agreement in order ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Diseases and malnutrition in refugee camps continue to increase in South Sudan Yida (Agenzia Fides) - Since last April the refugees in the refugee camp in Yida, in the south Sudanese State of Upper Nile, have doubled because of scarce food resources and the ongoing conflict since June 2011 in the s ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders: "Rimsha must be released, the sharia says it" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer is a Salafi Muslim leader. He is the current Secretary General of the "Jamiat Ahle Hadith" ("Assembly of the followers of the sayings of the Prophet"), the political-relig ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - General election: "No to abstention," say the Bishops, the Church participates with its observers Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - There will be observers of the Catholic Church to ensure the proper conduct of the general elections on August 31 in Angola. The observer team is coordinated by Fr. Belmiro Tchissengueti, Executi ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith": Pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li, Bishop of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith" is the title of the long pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li Jing Feng, ninety-year-old Bishop of the Diocese of Feng Xiang, in the province of Shaan X ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Church’s appeal to help the victims of the torrential rains Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is mobilizing to bring material and moral support to the victims of the floods that for days have been scourging Senegal and at the same time launches an appeal to the universa ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/BENIN - Inauguaration of the first "mini-village of the Child", dedicated to St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - After the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Benin last November, one of the concrete answers to the special attention addressed by the Holy Father to the children, as the hope of the entir ...