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• 14 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops: may the country find unity against terrorism New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe it is a time when the whole nation needs to be united to deal with terrorism in the strongest terms. United in the spirit of brotherhood, we will be able to overcome the powers tha ...
• 14 July 2011
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES-World Population Day: 7 billion people around the world within October New York City (Fides Service) - World Population Day will be celebrated next week. According to the United Nations Organization (UNO), in October, the number of inhabitants of the planet will reach 7 billion. The statist ...
• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN-Education and professional training: the Jesuits' commitment to give a future to the country Herat (Agenzia Fides) - In a country torn by war and terrorism, the young Afghans, who are 68% of the population, "want peace and security and dream about education", like all the other young in the world. "The Church m ...
• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Year of the Laity: the faithful are aware of their missionary responsibility Ba Meng (Fides Service) - "Here I am Lord, send me!": these are the words pronounced by 24 lay missionaries of the diocese of Ba Meng, in Inner Mongolia in mainland China during the rite of the missionary mandate preside ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-More than 4000 operators engaged in pastoral work in prisons, an increasingly difficult mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (EMC) prisons has announced that the work of the representatives of the Catholic Church in prisons is increasingly difficult for the situatio ...
• 13 July 2011
  AFRICA DR CONGO- Child soldiers situation is improving, but the situation remains critical Goma (Agenzia Fides) - In the last ten years around 36 000 child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been freed, but according to UNICEF, at least 6 000 are still enrolled in irregular militias. The Work "D ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE-The Church of Santiago celebrates 450 years in the service of the community Santiago, Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ ayer, hoy y siempre" is the motto with which the Church of Santiago, created as a diocese in 1561 by Pope Pius IV, celebrated her 450 years of life. The Archbishop of Santiago, H ...
• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals threaten a Catholic school asking for the admission of Hindu children Khandwa (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Hindu groups have threatened the headmaster and teachers of a Catholic school in the Diocese of Khandwa (in the Madhya Pradesh state) trying to get a Hindu girl admitted to the scho ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO-Confirmation of the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 March 2011, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Rev. Fr. Jose Orlando Camacho Torres, CSSp as National Director of th ...
• 13 July 2011
  VATICAN- The blog "Being Catholics in China" has been set up Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides Agency thought it necessary to set up the blog "Being Catholics in China" as a means of information and training for Chinese Catholics of this great continent. It is a good moment of ...
• 13 July 2011
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY-The religious study the reality of the country Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of the Religious of Paraguay is celebrating its institutional assembly which has programmed an analysis of the national and ecclesial realities. In fact, this meeting will addres ...
• 12 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-The heart of a thirteen-year old girl "embraces the missions" Warsaw (Fides Service) - "Embracing the missions with a small heart" is the title of the book prepared and printed by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Poland, which collects poems written by Paulina Walc ...
• 12 July 2011
  AFRICA-AIDS is also fought with a short film Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, the AJAN (the African Jesuit Network against AIDS) launched a contest on the theme: "young people’s movies for life and love against AIDS", open to students of Jesuit schools on th ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of Farah Hatim arrives at the High Court of Punjab, the Catholic girl Islamized by force Multan (Fides Service) - The High Court in Punjab will judge and determine the truth about the case of Farah Hatim, the Catholic girl kidnapped, Islamized and forced to marry a Muslim man in the city of Rahim Yar Khan i ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-From the Vatican Council II to the current pastoral: summer training in the diocese of Liao Ning Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - In order to improve overall preparation of priests, religious men, religious women and laity of the diocese, the diocese of Liao Ning in the northeast province in mainland China a series of tr ...