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• 15 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Director of the PMS: "The Pope in the Philippines shows us mercy towards the last" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It will be a journey of compassion, even the official theme chosen, 'Mercy and compassion', explains it. The Pope is in the Philippines and will give a testimony of closeness and compassion towa ...
• 15 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the cartoons on Muhammad are offensive Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The cartoons on Muhammad published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are "offensive" and any insult must be rejected "at all levels". This is how Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Divine Word Missionaries from Asia, Africa and Oceania work in Argentina Oberá (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 15, the feast of Saint Arnold Janssen, founder of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), the Bishop of the diocese of Oberá (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Damián Santiago Bitar, recal ...
• 15 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER – Project of a social-medical centre in Dosso, for the welfare of women and children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - In an attempt to address the situation of particular urgency and improve health coverage in the Region, the Movement for the Struggle Against World Hunger and the Diocese of Lodi (Italy) have init ...
• 15 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite League: a UN resolution against the attacks on religions is needed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Governing Council of the Maronite League met on Wednesday, January 14 and condemned what happened in France last week as an "attack on human rights and human dignity, which is in contradictio ...
• 14 January 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Bishops' Holy Land Coordination visit the Cremisan Valley Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The 16 Bishops of the Holy Land Coordination – body that brings together Bishops and representatives of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe and North America (see Fides 07/01/2015; 12/01/201 ...
• 14 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Corruption: a serious disease that has infected all Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The country is seriously injured and infected with a bacterium that has brought democracy to the point of death: corruption, a common practice that has become 'something natural', to the po ...
• 14 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI – Parliament dissolved, demonstrations against President increase Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Parliament in Haiti has been dissolved after the failure of last-ditch negotiations over a new electoral law, according to a twitter sent to Fides. President Michel Martelly now effective ...
• 14 January 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Signs of hope but still too much violence, also due to the strong movement of weapons", say the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Muslim and Christian communities are beginning to talk to each other and seek peace" say the Bishops of the Central African Republic in their message entitled "Therefore choose life" publish ...
• 14 January 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The local Church: "From Madhu hope to revive peace" Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Marian prayer of the Pope at the Shrine of Madhu is a message of hope: the whole nation remembers that harmony and peace are precious values and essential for the future, they are to be prot ...
• 14 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Frost and snow: first victims due to frostbite among the Syrian refugees Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The cold wave that has hit large regions of the Middle East in recent days has caused the first victims among the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. "Four people have died form hypothermia - confirms to ...
• 14 January 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Tetanus vaccine: the first tests deny that it can be used for birth control Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The joint team of experts appointed by the Catholic Church and the Minister of Health in Nairobi have declared that the vaccine used in the campaign against tetanus in Kenya is safe, even if the ...
• 14 January 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Hunger and cold temperatures continue to cause deaths in North Darfur Darkoro (Agenzia Fides) - The weather conditions worsen the already precarious living conditions of the population of North Darfur. Several people have died from hunger and intense cold in East Jebel Marra region, nearby ...
• 14 January 2015
  VATICAN - Saint Joseph Vaz, an example of missionary zeal Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Joseph gives us an example of missionary zeal. Though he came to Ceylon to minister to the Catholic community, in his evangelical charity he reached out to everyone. Leaving behind his ho ...
• 14 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary, after the bombing in Paris: "Dear Muslim brothers, we mourn with you" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "We know how much you are suffering, dear Muslim friends, in seeing terrorism practiced in different parts of the world in the name of Islam and in the name of Allah": is what is written in an ...