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• 7 November 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Hard Times": Pope Tawadros renounces to celebrate the anniversary of his inauguration Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Tawadros II canceled the celebrations planned to mark the first anniversary of his inauguration as the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The anniversary falls on November 18. The renun ...
• 7 November 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Exclusion and discrimination, but also struggle and resistance for indigenous women around the world Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty, ignorance, indifference, are words often associated to indigenous groups around the world, the most affected by discrimination for opportunities, income and access to basic services. The p ...
• 7 November 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A stampede left at least 28 people dead during a prayer vigil Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A stampede that left at least 28 people dead was caused by a false alarm raised by someone not yet identified (and another 200 were hospitalized) in the Holy Ghost Adoration Center in Uke, in the ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Air raid on a school in the area of the Nuba Mountains: people killed and wounded El Abassiya (Agenzia Fides) - Five people were killed and 20 wounded during an air raid on a school in the town of El Abassiya on the Nuba Mountains in Southern Kordofan in Sudan. According to information released by Rad ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Jesuits: online courses for refugees Amman (Agenzia Fides) – Currently there are more than 500 thousand Syrian refugees in Jordan. The jesuits have set up online higher education courses which have already been tested in other contexts marked by wars and ...
• 6 November 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO – Historic event: a Bishop at the Congress of Coahuila opens a dialogue for the rights of migrants Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "Abroad we have become a country that stands out because here we kill migrants" denounced the Bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. José Raúl Vera López, O.P., ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Kerala to the government: give a home to the homeless Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - To give a home to the homeless in Kerala was the appeal launched to the state government of Kerala by Philipose Mar Crisostomo, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara independent Church "M ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Healing the ills of Africa to prevent tragedies such as what happened in Lampedusa " Bujumbura ( Agenzia Fides) - The fight against poverty and misery in Africa, which leads to tragedies such as what happened in Lampedusa (see Fides 04/10/2013), passes through good governance and proper exploitation of t ...
• 6 November 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Church in the Pacific questions itself about the new evangelization Madang (Agenzia Fides) - "What does God ask us today? What does the Lord call us to do as a Church in the Pacific?" . This is the question asked during the General Assembly of the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea and ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Special" pilgrims in the parish of Yi Xing Fu Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Yi Xing Fu in the Diocese of Tian Jin, in mainland China, welcomed a group of "special" pilgrims on 27 October: we are talking about forty faithful who were protestants and have r ...
• 6 November 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal: Israeli demolitions sabotage peace Jerusalem ( Agenzia Fides) - "There is no justification for the demolition, but when the municipality and the Israeli government enact demolitions and displace people from their homes, these practices increase hatred and ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/CHAD - "A school, a life" thousands of children without education condemned to poverty N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In Chad, public education is free and compulsory , however, extreme poverty, poor school infrastructure, lack of teaching materials and unqualified teachers, transforms school education in a g ...
• 6 November 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The defeat of the M23: a historic victory for the Congolese army Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The M23 has been defeated: in the course of the night fighters of the main rebel movement in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), abandoned the last two positions held on the bord ...
• 6 November 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - During their 96th meeting, the Bolivian Bishops will close the Year of Faith Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) will meet in Cochabamba from Thursday 7 to Tuesday, November 12 for its XCVI (96th) Assembly. The Archbishop of Cochabamba, His Exc. Mgr. Tito Solari ...
• 5 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Greek Catholic parish priest of Raqqa to Islamists: You are betraying the true Islam Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - Archimandrite Naaman Rawik, Greek Catholic priest of Raqqa and Tabqa - city in northern Syria for months in the hands of anti -Assad militias – has found refuge in Lebanon after Islamist militan ...