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12 November 2014
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - To strengthen missionary commitment in spite of violence in the country and people's indifference
Chimaltenango (Agenzia Fides) - From November 7 to 9 more than 2000 and 500 people from 14 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, gave birth to the fourth Missionary Congress of Guatemala (COMGUA) in the city of Ch ...
12 November 2014
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Arusha
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On November 11, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Prosper Balthazar Lyimo, Chancellor and Judicial Vicar of Arusha as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Arusha (Tanzania), assigning ...
12 November 2014
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Mgr. Ouedraogo confident about the return of power to civilians on behalf of the military
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The military is certainly willing to give power to a transitional civilian government. It is therefore a good thing that there is a Charter governing the transitional period", said His Exc. ...
12 November 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The state has given the St. Francis school back to the Church
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Lahore obtained the restitution of the St. Francis school, among the properties nationalized in the past by the Pakistani government. As reported to Agenzia Fides by local sour ...
12 November 2014
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - At least 19 countries around the world recruit child soldiers
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The latest data collected by the NGO Amnesty International, updated to 2012, confirm that it is difficult to know exactly how many children are currently being forced across the world to take par ...
12 November 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - The government expels Islamist militants from educational institutions
Minya (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, November 11, the Egyptian Minister of Education, Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr paid a visit to the city of Minya in Upper Egypt, in order to see that the management functions in local administ ...
11 November 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem visit the Esplanade of the Mosques
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday 10 November, a delegation of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem visited the Esplanade of the Mosques, Haram al Sharif. The area of the Holy City is again at the center ...
11 November 2014
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The law on education must be applied without discrimination
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The State gives priority attention to public schools and discriminates against "private" schools: the complaint comes from Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, His Exc. Mgr. Tito Solari. Accord ...
11 November 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Displaced persons remain isolated and without support due to violence
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - According to official data, the increase in violence in Iraq has caused about 1.8 million displaced since January 2014. Almost half have found shelter in schools, camps or in abandoned buildings ...
11 November 2014
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Indonesian Catholics are inspired by the martyrdom of Mgr. Johannes Aerts
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) – The Dutch missionary Johannes Aerts, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Apostolic Vicar of Langgur, killed by Japanese troops with five other priests and eight confreres on July 30, 1942 i ...
11 November 2014
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A Bishop President of the Transition? The official position of the Church
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Burkina Faso is honored by the fact that a Catholic Bishop was suggested to take on the position of "President of the transition," but in accordance with the Canon Law, an eccl ...
11 November 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - A Mass celebrated again in the Nineveh Plain
Tel Isqof (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean church of St. George in the village of Tel Isqof, in an area of the Nineveh Plain disputed between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Pershmerga Kurdish troops, was reopened ...
11 November 2014
ASIA/PHILIPPINES – To cancel foreign debt in order to contribute to the reconstruction after Typhoon Haiyan
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which hit the central Philippines in November 2013, religious organizations, environmental groups, human rights organizations have su ...
11 November 2014
AFRICA/KENYA - The government presents a commission of inquiry on the tetanus vaccination after the protests of the Church
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Health of Kenya established a Commission of Inquiry into the controversial campaign of vaccination against tetanus, which the Catholic Church affirms hides a program of forced st ...
11 November 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - Show all the corruption and lies of those who have turned away from God and from the truth
Campeche (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a very corrupt country, where the people and the politicians are not interested in living in the truth" complained the Bishop of Campeche, His Exc. Mgr. José Francisco Gonzalez, in ...
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