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• 14 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian Migrants' Day, October - month of the Lord of Miracles Lima ( Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of Faith and on the occasion of the "Mes Morado" (Purple Month because people carry this color as a sign of penance), the month dedicated to the Lord of Miracles, the "Peruvian migrant ...
• 14 October 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Education cannot wait": due to conflicts about 29 million children lack education New York City (Agenzia Fides) - "Education cannot wait", has just concluded, an event organized for the second consecutive year during the General Assembly of the United Nations. According to figures released by the orga ...
• 14 October 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako establishes the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Laity have the management of financial affairs Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako established the Pastoral Council for the Chaldean diocese in Baghdad, involving together with the auxiliary bishop Shlemon Warduni ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - New violence and arbitrary arrests against Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - New violence against Christian communities in different places in India: As reported to Fides by the "All India Christian Council" (AICC) – a coalition that unites Christians of different de ...
• 11 October 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence against civilians in the territory of Masisi Masisi (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, September 27 armed groups clashed in the area of Osso - Banyungu, near Masisi, province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There were also attacks against civilians in ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Confidence in the future of the country, the Bishops call for a free and responsible election San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) – Just over a month since the presidential election, the Episcopal Conference of Honduras has asked the Honduran people to go to the polls "without pressure or threats, without selling th ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Children in Christ, firm in Faith", 20,000 letters to the Pope for the National Day of Missionary Childhood Juticalpa (Agenzia Fides) - On October 20, the National Day of Missionary Childhood will conclude. Among the initiatives of the Diocese of Juticalpa, the department of Olancho, the largest in Honduras, the authorities h ...
• 11 October 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Water should not be anyone's privilege": the first congress for water in Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - More than a hundred people gathered yesterday, 10 October, to attend the opening of the "First Cabildo for Water", a meeting organized by the Coalition for the Defence of Water and Life. The ev ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: does not want a "Kurdish State" in the Syrian province of Jazira Hassaké (Agenzia Fides ) - "The only ones who want to create a Kurdish autonomous region in northern Syria are the militants of the PKK, the Abdullah Ocalan party. But the project does not even receive acclaim from othe ...
• 11 October 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Soddo Vatican City ( Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, on 11 October 2013, appointed Coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Soddo (Ethiopia) Rev.do Tsegaye Keneni Dérera of the clergy of Addis Ababa, Vicar General of the Apost ...
• 11 October 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders work for peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal and a shared commitment "to work together in order to build security and peace in Myanmar" was launched by the Burmese religious leaders of different faiths, at the conclusion of ...
• 10 October 2013
  AMERICA/PANAMA – Doctors on strike stop the country, the mediation of the Church is requested Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Revolutionary Party (DRP) has called for the intervention of the Catholic Church in Panama to mediate in the conflict between the government and doctors who have been on strike for ...
• 10 October 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - "Pacem in Terris" in Japanese infects society Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - 50 years after its publication, the encyclical "Pacem in Terris", which Pope John XXIII addressed to the Church and all people of good will, is very modern and is experiencing a "second childhood ...
• 10 October 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Two years after the massacre of Maspero, Copts are still waiting for justice Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the second anniversary of the massacre of Maspero, which on October 9, 2011 saw 23 Christian Coptics massacred by the departments of the Egyptian army, hundreds of militant movements and acrony ...
• 10 October 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priests "expelled" by the guerrillas, the complaint of the Bishop Puerto Guzmán (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Mocoa - Sibundoy (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr. Luis Alberto Parra Mora, complained to a local radio station that the guerrillas have expelled some of his priests ...