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• 1 October 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Division is not from God": in march for peace and unity of the country Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - "Our intention is to make people understand that we as Venezuelans cannot live divided, division is not from God, it is of the devil": this are the words with which His Exc. Mgr. Mariano ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Jesuit: "A network of solidarity against the network of terror" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "The network of Islamic jihadism and its international implications should be kept under strict control in the southern Philippines" says to Fides Agency the Jesuit Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, Director ...
• 1 October 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Initiatives and projects for 1400 child workers in Honduras and Nicaragua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,400 Nicaraguan and Honduran children who were working on the streets to help their families, have been reintegrated into the education system through a project sponsored by the Europ ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Closure of the professorship named after Mother Teresa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The academic authorities in India have announced the closure of the chair of teaching in "Health, education and social work", named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in the "Indira Gandhi Natio ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Authorities have threatened to close down another Catholic radio Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The South Sudanese government has threatened to close down the Catholic Church’s "Voice of Hope" FM in Wau, in the west of the Country. According to the Catholic Radio Network (CRN), Western Bahr ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Epidemics and food shortages in refugee camps in Kass, South Darfur Kass (Agenzia Fides) - The displaced people living in the camp of El Batari, in Kass, South Darfur, complain of poor health, the spread of diseases and lack of health care by the authorities. According to what was report ...
• 1 October 2014
  VATICAN - The feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, opens the Mission Month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With today's liturgical feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897), proclaimed Patroness of the Missions in 1927 with St. Francis Xavier, October month of the missions begins, whic ...
• 1 October 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The crisis pushes more and more faithful to religious syncretism" denounces Mgr. Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The political and social crisis that is shaking the Central African Republic as a result of the civil war which broke out in December 2012, is leading several Catholics toward the drift of religi ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: hostility toward the Syrian refugees increases Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The effects of uncontrolled influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon open a disturbing scenario. The concern has reached the warning level. Among the local population hostility towards refugees cont ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Armenian Catholicos announces it will file an appeal to retrieve the properties of the ancient Sis Athens (Agenzia Fides) - Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has made public his intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Turkey within the month of October for th ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pastor Zafar Bhatti is alive, another inmate wounded Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Protestant Pastor Zafar Bhatti, in prison in Rawalpindi since 2012 for alleged blasphemy, was not killed or hurt, as erroneously reported in Pakistan in recent days (see Fides 26/09/2014). In ...
• 30 September 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violence in the country does not decrease: a military chaplain killed Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of La Guaira, in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Raúl Biord Castillo, issued a statement, sent to Fides Agency, which informs the violent death of Fr. Reinaldo Alfonso Herrera Lures, who se ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/THAILAND - The armed conflicts, which so far have caused 6000 deaths, also involve minors Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Thailand has become caught up in an escalating cycle of violence. It is easy to come across children who clean firearms and fight in the ranks of Islamist rebels. It is a reality that h ...
• 30 September 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Working with the indigenous open to inculturation: the commitment of the Apostolic Vicar of Mitu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We work with indigenous groups open to inculturation": with these words His Exc. Mgr. Medardo Gesù Henao del Rio, MXY, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Mitu, in the Colombian Amazon in South ...
• 30 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Prayers in South Africa for the recognition of the martyrdom of Benedict Daswa Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tzaneen, His Exc. Mgr. Joao Rodrigues, has asked the faithful to pray for the Congress meeting of theological advisers appointed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, ...