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• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libya struggles to find stability two years after Gaddafi’s escape from Tripoli Tripoli ( Agenzia Fides) - A passenger who blocked the airport for an hour because he wanted at all costs to embark with his sick mother on a direct flight to Tunis, the daughter of former intelligence chief of the old r ...
• 3 September 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The Country commits itself to prohibiting child labor in gold mines Dodoma (Agenzia Fides ) - Child labor in gold mines is one of the heaviest wounds that affect Tanzania. Children who are employed in the mines are orphaned or living in precarious conditions, they often do not reach 8 y ...
• 2 September 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Art to transmit faith Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "To communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art": various Catholic communities of mainland China use art as a tool of evangelization, according to the teachin ...
• 2 September 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Ten thousand working children: exploited, drugged, sexually abused Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - Unemployment, exploitation, alcoholism, drug addiction, absent parents, physical and sexual abuse, a school system which is lacking are the major problems that plague the lives of many youn ...
• 2 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs and Christian leaders in the Middle East: together with the Pope, in prayer for peace Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian leaders of the Eastern Churches welcome and re-launch the appeal for peace in Syria, launched by Pope Francis in yesterday's Angelus, September 1. As several Christian leaders in th ...
• 2 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Grand Mufti desires to be in St. Peter's with the Pope to pray for peace in Syria: Muslims and other groups join in the appeal Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassou, the spiritual leader of Sunni Islam in Syria, is deeply affected by the Pope’s appeal for peace in Syria during yesterday’s Angelus and exp ...
• 2 September 2013
  VATICAN - "The cry for peace should rise up": the Pope proclaims a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East and throughout the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We want a peaceful world, we want to be men and women of peace, and we want in our society, torn apart by divisions and conflicts, that peace break out! War never again! Never again war". ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Church in North Africa sympathizes with that of the East Algiers ( Agenzia Fides) - The Catholics living in North Africa have welcomed the invitation to fasting and prayer for peace in Syria launched by the Archbishop of Tunis, Mgr. Ilario Antoniazzi, and the Bishop of Constan ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Patriarchate: no one can justify war under the pretext of defending the Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "No one can justify military intervention in the Middle East under the pretext of defending the Christians. This is now valid in Syria. But even in the dramatic moment experienced by Egypt, the ex ...
• 2 September 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Discalced Carmelites: prayer for peace, with Syria in our hearts Haifa (Agenzia Fides) - The Discalced Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Land, cloistered nuns, welcome "with intense participation" Pope Francis’ appeal in a special prayer for peace in Syria. When contacted by Fides Agenc ...
• 2 September 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Emergency for women and children in refugee camps Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - More than a million people still live scattered in Somalis refugee camps, among them women and children who live every day at great risk of violence of all kinds. Forced to flee and abandon th ...
• 31 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas: peace talks, only option for the Syrian crisis Vatican City ( Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing civil war in Syria can only be resolved through peace talks, says a statement issued by Caritas Internationalis and sent to Fides Agency. The Secretary General of Caritas Inter ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – More witnesses on the fury against Christians Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - A delegation from the diocese of Bouar went to Bohong (80 km from Bouar, in the west of the Central African Republic) where on Sunday, August 18 priests and nuns of the Sœurs de la Charité wer ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda says it was bombarded by the Congolese army. The UN "evidence on the support of Kigali to the rebels" Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - Rwanda has accused government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo of having fired artillery against its own territory, killing a woman and injuring her son. The authorities in Kinshasa ...
• 31 August 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA – Death of Cardinal Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Lusaka ( Agenzia Fides) - Strong emotion in Zambia for the death, on August 29, of Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka. In a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Episcopal Conference of Zamb ...