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• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even the indigenous population are a "living part" of the country and the Church Naupan (Agenzia Fides) - Almost protected by the hills of Metztepetl, Tonallan and Citlalan (the moon, the sun and the stars), in the Cathedral of Napuan dedicated to St. Mark (in Nahuatl language "El Tecuán", that is, ...
• 2 October 2013
  VATICAN – Cardinal Filoni to the Korean Bishops: "There is much more to do and there is need for intelligence and missionary bravery" Seoul (Agenzia Fides ) - "Take account neither of the prestige that the Church enjoys in your Country, nor of the statistics about which we may read. There is much more to do and there is need for intelligence and missio ...
• 2 October 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Church and civil society: it is urgent to release seven innocent Christians sentenced in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church and numerous organizations that defend human rights call for the release of seven Christians sentenced two days ago by a court of first instance in Orissa, for the alleged mu ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Millions of Americans struggle to live": Bishops urgent request to the government Washington (Agenzia Fides ) - The Bishops, Presidents of three Commissions of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have urged Congress to urgently fulfill its fundamental role of government and to res ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA – Interreligious prayer for the victims of the attack at the Westgate Mall Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders from Kenya have unanimously condemned the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. As reported by CISA Agency, a special interreligious prayer service was held on Oct ...
• 2 October 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Do we still have a functioning state? " Asks Caritas Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Do we still have a functioning state?". Is the title of the statement sent to Fides Agency by Caritas Zambia in which concern about the deterioration of the state functions in the country are ex ...
• 2 October 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Children and women exploited in sweatshops in the Amazon Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The military Forces of the Police and the Navy have found 28 drug factories in the area known as the Amazonian Trapezium, the part of Colombian territory that forms a trapezoidal corridor between t ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Indigenous peoples continue to remain "invisible" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous population of El Salvador continues to suffer from poverty, lack of health care, drinking water, education as well as limited access to land and natural resources in the Cent ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "You cannot change the country only with laws, we must first change ourselves": Mgr. Baez on the amendments to the Law 779 Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against women will disappear from our country only when real values among young people and families are spread: this was emphasized by the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, ...
• 1 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - In Bangassou the population rebels against the abuses of Seleka. "The situation is explosive", warns the Bishop Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an explosive situation that is likely to cause a tragedy" says to Fides Agency Mgr. Juan Jose Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangassou, where in the neighborhood of Tokoyo, the inhabitants have ...
• 1 October 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Solidarity visit of the Heads of Churches to the Mosque of al-Aqsa Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of senior representatives of the Christian Churches of Jerusalem carried out a visit to the Mosque of Al-Aqsa on Monday, September 30th to publicly express their solidarity with t ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Church offers criteria to elect the next President: a document is being prepared San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Costa Rica is preparing a document to "enlighten the electorate in the political campaign, in the light of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church": this was anno ...
• 1 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The LRA guerrillas lay down their arms, but the intervention of Seleka threatens to derail the agreement Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – The rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the armed group of Ugandan origin that wreaks havoc in a vast area between South Sudan, north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Centra ...
• 1 October 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - New incursions of armed gangs in sednaya; Christians turn to faith and prayer Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - After Maalula , now Sednaya, a village in the north of Damascus, known for its historical, cultural and religious heritage, characterized by a large presence of Christian churches and monasteri ...
• 1 October 2013
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Poverty rate remains constant and alarming San José (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty is a phenomenon present in all of Costa Rica, despite the enormous efforts proved fruitless, made in the last 20 years to try to eliminate it. According to a recent report published by ...