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• 11 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Campaign for the schooling of one million children Mogadishu ( Agenzia Fides) - Somalia, where only four out of ten children go to school, has one of the lowest rates of child schooling in the world. On the occasion of the recent International Day of Literacy, the Somali ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in Colombians", Mgr. Lozano during the Week of Peace Ocaña ( Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is not born in Cuba, but in the heart of the Colombians", with these words, the bishop of the diocese of Ocaña, Mgr. Jorge Enrique Lozano Zafra, launched the celebration of the Week for ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A serious incident of violence disturbs the celebration of the Week of Peace Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura (Colombia), Monsignor Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S., launched an appeal to respect human life, after the discovery of the dismembered body of a m ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans of India: the Pope has rekindled in us the spirit of peace and harmony New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "As Franciscans, we are called to unite our communities and all our institutions in order to offer our solidarity to the people of Syria and build peace in Syria, the Middle East and throughou ...
• 11 September 2013
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Patriarch Kirill writes to Obama: May the U.S. listen to the unanimous voices of religious leaders Moscow ( Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the 12th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Kirill yesterday sent a message to President Barack Obama urging him to shelve ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III to Obama: "Great leaders are those who know how to make peace" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatness of a leader is to seek peace and make peace, not to wage war and create destruction. A superpower is such if it is a power of peace": with these words, the Melkite Patriarch (Gre ...
• 11 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Still looting and violence against civilians on behalf of the M23 despite peace talks Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Despite peace talks being held in Kampala (Uganda) between the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the rebels of the M23, the latter continue to plunder and harass civilians in N ...
• 11 September 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - About six thousand people live in precarious conditions and extreme poverty Pungarabato (Agenzia Fides) - The poverty rate in Pungarabato, one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero in the south-western Mexico, is very high and requires a rapid solution. This is what local authorities state, accor ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Syria: Bishops’ practical suggestions to young people for non-violent protests Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Catholic bishops, who have already spoken out against any military action in Syria, recommend all young people, especially college students, to give life to non-violent protests. "Si ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Reconciliation cannot be imposed": Bishops 40 years after the Pinochet coup Santiago ( Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet, which falls on September 13, the Standing Committee of the Chilean Episcopal Conference, presided over ...
• 10 September 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Pilgrimage of the relics of Don Bosco. Bishop Somali: he also intercedes for Peace Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - As of today, 10 September to Thursday, September 19, the relics of St. John Bosco will make a long pilgrimage in many places of Holy Land, before returning to Italy at the end of the tour that ...
• 10 September 2013
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The youngest Church in the world towards World Mission Day 2013 Ulan Bator (Agenzia Fides) - Many are not aware of the great progress made ​​to date by the Catholic Church in Mongolia, the world's youngest established about 20 years ago after the fall of communism. The appeal o ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - Promotion of human development in the Andean communities, in particular for women and children Piura (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 774 million illiterate adults. Of these, 493 million are women without access to basic rights, to scientific and technological progress. They live in conditions of iso ...
• 10 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - 60 people die in new clashes; a missionary: "the people are exasperated while there are those who feed the religious clash" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - At least 60 people were killed in a series of battles in different areas of the north-west area of the Central African Republic, in particular around Bossangoa, which took place between the 8th a ...
• 10 September 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - A common strategy to combat trafficking of Haitians who emigrate to Brazil Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the National Council of immigration in Brazil (CNIB) met last week in Port au Prince, capital of Haiti, with representatives of civil society and the Haitian state to disc ...