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• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The action of young people in storms was a "silent revolution," says a Bishop La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary bishops of La Plata, Mgr. Nicolas Baisi and Mgr. Alberto Bochatey, claimed that many young volunteers acted "heroically" during the storm that hit the capital Buenos Aires the fir ...
• 16 April 2013
  AMERICA/CANADA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 20 December 2012 appointed rev. Fr. Alex Osei, CSSp as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
• 15 April 2013
  VATICAN - Listening to Asia: Pathways for faith, societies and religions, between tradition and contemporaneity Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Listening to Asia: Pathways for faith, societies and religions, between tradition and contemporaneity" is the theme of the International Conference which began this morning at the Pontific ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Domestic violence for almost 83% of children in the country La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 83% of Bolivian children suffer domestic violence, more than one million work on the streets in conditions of serious risk and, according to the state agency Defensoría del Pueblo, at lea ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Family, public education and well-paid job," the concern of the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the present and the future of our country," say the Bishops of Chile in a statement published at the end of their 105th Plenary Assembly held last week. "We invite all ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Symbolic targets have been hit," said Mgr. Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Symbolic places were hit," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, where yesterday, Sunday, April 14, at least 34 civil ...
• 15 April 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Nicolas Maduro new Venezuelan President Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Nicolas Maduro, the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the elections on Sunday, April 14th with 50.66% of votes. His mandate as President of Venezuela will end in 20 ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Chaotic situation, who can must escape" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are soldiers and armed men everywhere and several civilians are trying to escape elsewhere," says to Fides Agency Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central A ...
• 15 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - India, the world's largest importer of weapons, must learn from Pacem in Terris New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "India, the biggest importer of weapons in the world, and one of the 24 countries that abstained in the UN vote in favor of the Treaty on the limitation of the arms trade needs to learn the ri ...
• 15 April 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Government representatives contested by the Copts during a meeting of "reconciliation" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A traditional meeting of "reconciliation" convened by the regime in past days caused the death of at least 8 people – registered a lively protest to government representatives by the faithful C ...
• 13 April 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diocese threatened by armed group Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement released by the Diocese of Tumaco (Colombia) says that the Commission for the Social Pastoral of the Diocese was declared "objective and permanent military enemy" by a movement tha ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission for National Harmony: death penalty for the false accusations of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - False accusations of blasphemy should be punished with death penalty: is the conclusion reached by the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony. As reported to Fides Agency, in a meeting ...
• 13 April 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA- Still chaos but the new authorities carry out some steps to stabilize the situation Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic is still living in instability and insecurity after the flight of President Bozizé following the entry of the rebels of the coalition Seleka in the capital Bangui, o ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - To die or leave? The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus talks about the unanswered dilemma of Syrian Christians Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Syria "must choose between two bitter chalices: to die or leave." A dilemma that involves the whole ecclesial reality in this battered Country, and is told by the Maronite archbis ...
• 13 April 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Nsukka and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Nsukka (Nigeria), by His Exc. Mgr. Francis Emmanuel Ogbonna Okobo, in accordance with can. 401 § ...