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• 20 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - General health care and food counseling organized by the local Church Tijuana - The Archdiocese of Tijuana, the main city of the Mexican state of Baja California, organized the Fifth Day of Health care in the Miramar colony where free counseling services were offered regarding general medi ...
• 20 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Mortar shells against the Melkite Archbishopric of Aleppo; Bishop Jeanbart : "Yes to the truce" Aleppo ( Agenzia Fides) - In a "besieged" Aleppo, the conflict also affects churches. As reported to Fides Agency by Jean-Clément Jeanbart, Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo, last night "two mortar shells damaged the seat ...
• 20 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram has no qualms in killing innocent people", said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Undoubtedly Boko Haram is still well organized and well armed despite the military offensive that has been going on for three months in the northern states of Nigeria", says to Fides Agency His E ...
• 20 September 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - "For a society without human trafficking": a social evil that cannot leave us indifferent Lima ( Agenzia Fides) - As part of the program Solidarity Campaign "Compartir" ("To Share"), 2013, a march on the occasion of the International Day against Human Trafficking will be held in Lima on Monday, September 23. ...
• 20 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Infant Jesus of Prague arrives in Gojra, place of anti-Christian massacres Gojra (Agenzia Fides) - A statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague has been given and has arrived in recent days in the Sacred Heart Church in Gojra (Punjab province) and will remain there for the worship and devotion of the ...
• 20 September 2013
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation of the Bishop of Wewak and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Francis, on 20 September 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Wewak (Papua New Guinea), by His Exc. Mgr. AnthonyJoseph Burgess, in accor ...
• 20 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "I am happy to be a Catholic" Holy Childhood celebrates the Year of Faith Makurdi ( Agenzia Fides) - "I am happy to be a Catholic" was the theme chosen by Holy Childhood Association of Nigeria for the celebration of the Year of Faith, which was held at the "St. Thomas Aquinas" Major Seminary i ...
• 19 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A monk of the Holy Land: "No to confessionalism: the Syrians are forced to remain silent" Vatican City ( Agenzia Fides) - "We need to separate religion and politics. Nothing is worse, in this situation, than a confessional approach. Syria is a country full of ethnic and religious diversity. Among Christians ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis’ letter to the Imam of al-Azhar Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis sent a message to Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the great Imam of the Islamic University al-Azhar, the main cultural institution of Sunni Islam. The news was given in a statement by the same Unive ...
• 19 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mobilization of all religious realities in aid of the homeless Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 400 temporary shelters for the homeless following floods and landslides due to heavy rains that hit Mexico, that have been set up in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Chi ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – Everything is ready for the resumption of hostilities in North Kivu, denounces the local civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A guerrilla commander accused of committing war crimes, is ready to lead the offensive of the M23 against the Congolese army in the territory of Rutshuru, North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republi ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The plight of child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Known for the kidnappings of children that are exploited as soldiers, the Lord's Resistance Army, since 1986, has maintained a war of opposition against the Government of Uganda. The rebels ente ...
• 19 September 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Diocese of Lan Zhou welcomes three new priests "under the Cross of Christ" Lan Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Lan Zhou, in the province of Gan Su in mainland China, has welcomed three new priests "under the Cross of Christ", according to the words of the Bishop, His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Han ...
• 19 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Even two Christian women among the prisoners released Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - In the list of released prisoners in Iran between Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18, September there are also the names of two Christian women, Mitra Rahmati and Maryam Jalili. This was reported by th ...
• 19 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Disparities between rich and poor for the provisioning of water New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The poor who live in the city of New Delhi are the most severely affected by the precariousness of water supply in the city. In most of the unauthorized urban settlements, such as overcrowded ...