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• 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 ...
• 10 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The poor and the marginalized become producers of their food Jalisco (Agenzia Fides) - El Vergel is a community in the region of Durango, located three hours from Pijijiapan, Chiapas. To get there you have to cross over 30 miles of dirt roads, with very dangerous slopes, that beco ...
• 10 November 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops' appeal: "No more corruption and violence! Thorough investigation is needed" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, November 7, in Chilpancingo, the Attorney General, Jesús Murillo, met the parents of the 43 students missing in Ayotzinapa (see Fides 10/10/2014), and told them the confession of ...
• 10 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians protest: "Punish the muggers of Kasur and repeal the blasphemy law" Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Bring to justice the muggers who killed the Christian couple in Kasur on November 4; take immediate action to repeal the blasphemy law: are the requests made by hundreds of Christians who demonstr ...
• 10 November 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox: may the Churches unify the dates for the Easter celebration Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - A new appeal to all Christian Churches so that they celebrate the solemnity of Easter on the same date has been launched by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch, Tawadros II. According to what Agenzia F ...
• 10 November 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Without outside help the Country is collapsing", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Malawi is experiencing an uncertain period with regards to its democratic experience", says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary, in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, while the local Bish ...
• 10 November 2014
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Two other US citizens released Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, two American citizens who were detained in North Korea for religious reasons, were released and arrived in the United States. Bae thanked the North Korean gove ...