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• 3 August 2011
  ASIA/HONGKONG - The largest WYD delegation from the diocese of Hong Kong leaving for Madrid Hong Kong (AgenziaFides ) - Over 800 young people and 21 priests from Hong Kong are leaving tomorrow, August 5, for Madrid to attend World Youth Day (WYD). The participation in the next WYD has a larger delegation of y ...
• 3 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI- Malawi is increasingly at risk "risk of social explosion within a few months", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The situation remains tense in Malawi after the national day of protest on July 20, which resulted in violence with the death of twenty people (see Fides 20-22 July 2011). On August 1, Preside ...
• 2 August 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - "Hong Kong Book Fair 2011": an opportunity for evangelization and interreligious exchange Hong Kong (Fides Service) - For the Catholic community in Hong Kong, the annual exhibition "Hong Kong Book Fair" (which was held from July 20 to 26) is an opportunity for evangelization and interreligious exchange. His ...
• 2 August 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Cholera threatens prisons, denounces the Catholic Church Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Commission in the Dominican Republic prisons has accused the National Directorate of Prisons (NDP) of hiding information about cases of cholera which have occurred in detenti ...
• 2 August 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Terrazas launches an appeal in favor of the most needy Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz in Bolivia, said that the threats and repression are not the ways to combat social deprivation and asked to share and distribute wea ...
• 2 August 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The different souls in Tahrir Square, forcibly cleared by the military and police Cairo (Fides Service) - Military and Egyptian police forcibly cleared Tahrir Square, the symbolic place of the Egyptian revolution, and arrested hundreds of people. The demonstrators had camped for days in the streets to ...
• 1 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Unstoppable increase in human trafficking phenomenon, especially distressed women and children Jharkhand (Fides Service) - Every year approximately 4 million people are victims of human trafficking all over the world, over 1 million boys and girls are involved. The majority, about 90% are women and girls destined ...
• 1 August 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Church responds to the Pope's appeal with the major seminarians’ Summer Formation Camp Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting made us feel that we are no longer alone, the exchange has opened our eyes, sharing has made us able to thank the Lord who has chosen us. The courses have rekindled hope in ...
• 1 August 2011
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "We must urgently face the problem regarding prisons", said Cardinal Urosa, commenting on the creation of the Ministry for the management of prisons Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The creation of the Ministry to manage the prisons has been hailed by the People's Defender, Gabriela Ramirez and by the Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, who expressed the hop ...
• 1 August 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Violence creates an environment of uncertainty and tension", the Bishops denounce San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We see with sorrow the perpetuation of delinquency and crime, which always brings new deaths in the family and society in El Salvador", say the Bishops of El Salvador in a statement signe ...
• 1 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - A quarter of the Somali population is displaced according to a report of Caritas Somalia ìMogadishu (Fides Service) - "In south-central Somalia the primary need is the immediate access to food. People affected by drought are in urgent need of drinking water, sanitation, health care, protection, shelter and ...
• 1 August 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - "In the land loved by Saint Justin De Jacobis 12 million risk dying of hunger", Prefect Filoni recalled in his homily for the 150 years since the death of the evangelizing Saint of Ethiopia Rome (Fides Service) - "This land was fertilized by the heroic witness of the life of St. Justin De Jacobis" recalled His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, in the ...
• 30 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-After 30 years the first diaconal ordination in the diocese of Tian Shui was celebrated Tian Shui (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 July the first diaconal ordination in the last 30 years was celebrated in the Diocese of Tian Shui (originally Qin Zhou), in the Gan Su Province, in north-west China. According to a repo ...
• 30 July 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA-The Argentinian PMS help to re-build the seminaries of Haiti Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The International Secretary of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (SSPA), Mgr. Jan Dumon, sent a letter to Father Osvaldo Leone, Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies ...
• 30 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - II Meeting of the Catholic radios on the Internet: Identity and Mission. Challenges and confrontations. Mexico City (Fides Service) – To analyze the current condition of the radio and to plan its future is the main objective of the second Meeting of the people Responsible of Catholic Radio on the Internet. Participants w ...