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21 October 2015
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The damage of Typhoon Koppu: Dead, missing, harvests destroyed
Cabanatuan (Agenzia Fides) - According to local sources, at least 39 people have died due to Typhoon Koppu which in recent days has devastated the north-east of the Country, knocking down trees and electricity posts. Ove ...
21 October 2015
AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on 25 October: the concerns of the Church
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a week before the presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections, scheduled for Sunday, October 25, the Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH) has expressed some concerns. Fir ...
21 October 2015
AFRICA/CONGO - Clashes for the referendum on the third presidential term, the Bishops had long called for dialogue
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - At least four people have died and a dozen injured: is the toll of the violent demonstrations that took place yesterday, 20 October, in the two major cities of the Republic of Congo, the cap ...
21 October 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - The legalization of marijuana is being discussed, another serious social problem
Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico will discuss the legalization of marijuana, an issue that the Church proposed to be dealt with in a thorough way and analyze the problems ...
21 October 2015
AFRICA/CONGO DRC - Three years after the disappearance of the three Congolese Assumptionists, no word on their fate
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is still room for hope" says Fr. Joseph Delvordre, of the congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) talking to the Congolese newspaper "Le Potentiel" three year ...
21 October 2015
AASIA/HOLY LAND - Olive harvest has begun in Gethsemane
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The olive harvest in the garden of Gestsemani began on Saturday, October 17 and will last at least one week. As usual, even this year the Franciscan friars, guardian of the Sacred Garden where ...
21 October 2015
ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite diocese of Zahlé supports the breast cancer awareness campaign
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the month of the breast cancer awareness campaign, Maronite Bishop of Zahle, Mgr. Joseph Mouawad, celebrated a Mass in the church of Our Lady of Zahle and Bekaa, during which t ...
20 October 2015
ASIA/NEPAL - Six months after the earthquake, the country is still a multicoloured patchwork of temporary tarpaulins
Charikot (Agenzia Fides) - Six months after a massive earthquake devastated Nepal, people are still living in temporary shelters as political wrangling has prevented the disbursement of billions between April and May ple ...
20 October 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - New initiative to try to reduce maternal mortality
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - The provincial government of Jiber Pajtunjwa, Pakistan, has created a program for the reduction of maternal mortality which consists in offering $ 10 per visit to every pregnant woman. Accordin ...
20 October 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro Quiroga: "The opening of dialogue with ELN is positive news"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The recent announcement of dialogue between the Colombian government and the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrilla group, was judged as a positive sign by the President of the Episcopal Confer ...
20 October 2015
AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Church collects information about people who disappeared during the dictatorship
Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has made all parishes in the country available to the families of detainees who disappeared, in order to gather information to identify their remains. The news contained i ...
20 October 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - Offensive in Aleppo. Archbishop Marayati: we pay the price of the 'Holy Wars' carried out by others
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive in the region of Aleppo carried out by the Syrian government army with the support of Russian air raids, as well as mass emigration of the civilian population that still lived in th ...
20 October 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Apostolic Administrator of Torit: "It is more important to implement the peace agreement than create new States"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The implementation of the peace plan signed in August is more important than the creation of new States. This is the opinion expressed by Mgr. Thomas Oliha Tiya, Apostolic Administrator of Torit, S ...
20 October 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Violence in Jerusalem, the Christian Youth of Palestine announces a prayer vigil for peace
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is scheduled at 8pm on Saturday 24, eve of the feast of Our Lady of Palestine: all the Catholic parishes of Palestine, Israel and Jordan, will hold a prayer vigil in which youn ...
20 October 2015
AFRICA/GUINEA - Outgoing President in the lead in the provisional results of the presidential elections
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President Alpha Condé appears in the lead in the provisional results of the presidential elections held in the Republic of Guinea on 11 October. According to figures published on Octob ...
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