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• 28 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - More than 5 000 teachers at the Forum of Education sponsored by the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The ninth Public Education Forum has just been celebrated, organized by the Vicariate of Public Education of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, attended by 5,523 teachers of 250 schools. The ...
• 27 October 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's Appeal for victims of earthquake in Turkey Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - During the general audience on Wednesday, October 26, the Holy Father Benedict XVI launched an appeal for people affected by the earthquake in Turkey. These are his words: "Dear brothers an ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Chinese scholars to be held in December Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information provided by Sapientia Press House of the diocese of Beijing, the Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars, 2011, organized by the "Beijing Institute f ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the philosophical Major Seminary "St. Joseph " in the Archdiocese of Mandalay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Paul Pepper, of the diocesan clergy of Loikaw as Rector of the philosophical Major ...
• 27 October 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - In Somaliland children are detained and prosecuted, even for minor offenses, together with adults Hargeisa (Agenzia Fides) - The children's rights activists are concerned about the stagnation of a law on juvenile justice in the independent Republic of Somaliland in Somalia, where it is estimated that about 200 childr ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "May the spirit of Assisi blow in Pakistan: religious leaders united for peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the meeting in Assisi between religious leaders of the world is very useful as a symbolic and concrete experience: it is the witness that religious leaders can unite and ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Work integration is necessary, in respect of the autonomy of each diocese": Meeting of Bishops of the border dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela Ureña (Agenzia Fides) - As in the past, the Bishops in charge of the border area between Colombia and Venezuela have held a work meeting. The meeting was held on October 25 in the town of Ureña (Venezuela) and was atte ...
• 27 October 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Let us trust the new leaders in Tunisia," says the National Director of the PMS Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held in an atmosphere of joy, peace and emotion. There was a very consistent participation on behalf of voters", says to Fides Fr. awad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifi ...
• 27 October 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya has a tradition of a balanced Islam", said Mgr. Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Libya has a tradition of being a balanced country, religious, and that has never been fundamentalist" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. On ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/TURKEY - "A testimony of Christian love towards the earthquake victims of Van", said Archbishop Franceschini Smyrna (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a terrible human tragedy. The population of Van is devastated, especially because there are hundreds of children and mothers in need and at risk of survival. Caritas Turkey has moved swift ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Maternal deaths: the fatal destiny of peasants and indigenous people Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the International Day of Rural Women has just concluded, official figures show that in the Mexican states where most of the indigenous people or peasants live, and where ...
• 27 October 2011
  ASIA/ INDONESIA - The path of "triple dialogue": Christians and Muslims in communion with the meeting in Assisi Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Interfaith meetings between Christians and Muslims are taking place today and will take place in different parts of Indonesia to celebrate and live the "spirit of Assisi" This is what Fides lea ...
• 27 October 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "A political victory is not a blank check": the Church asks us not forget the poor Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Cristina Fernández, the President of Argentina, was re-elected on Sunday with 53% of the votes, a historical event. This is the largest popular support in a presidential election won by th ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Silsilah" movement: "After Fr. Fausto’s death, we need peace in Mindanao " Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The tragic death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME, raises "the urgency of peace on the island of Mindanao" and to repudiate the "total war on the island", this is what is said in a statement ...
• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - A school for orphaned children due to AIDS, thanks to "Jinde Charities" Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) -18 children who have lost their parents due to AIDS are back at school, thanks to the scholarship of the Office of the Prevention of AIDS "Jinde Charities", the largest charitable Catholic ...