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• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Signs of hope after the tragic earthquake in Haiti Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the terrible earthquake that devastated the island of Haiti, in spite of the great difficulty the Caribbean nation is still facing, the stories of some of its inhabitants are mar ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in Makurdi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 27 September 2012 appointed Rev. Godwin Atede of the clergy of the diocese of Idah as Rector of t ...
• 14 January 2013
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 23 November 2012 confirmed rev.Stane Kerin, of the archdiocese of Ljubljana as National Director ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese scholars is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The 50th anniversary of Vatican II was the central theme of the Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars 2012 organized by the "Beijing Institute for the Study of Christian Cul ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops against rape: "The dignity of each person is sacred: the challenge is education" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - As another episode of gang rape shakes the nation – the victim, a 29 year-old a woman in Punjab, raped by six men in Amristar – the Bishops of India reaffirm "the sanctity of life and the ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The local population is comforted by the French military intervention; the Church in aid of the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Malian population is greatly comforted by the French military intervention. After jihadist groups had taken the city of Konna on January 10, Malians had in fact held their breath, fearing th ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Seats "reserved" for the Copts in the next election? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – In the next parliamentary elections a Party of Coptic inspiration could be part of the list, with the declared function to represent the demands of the sectors of society - women, urban youth gr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Pastor forced to lock down a parish for the violence, and the faithful return to Mass Monterrey (Agenzia Fides) - All around there is a-five-meter high wall of reinforced concrete, the walls are evidence of bombings and car bombings. Metal blocks were also placed on the windows to prevent stray bullets fr ...
• 14 January 2013
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "After the Tunisian revolution irreversible changes in the Arab world," said Mgr. Lahham Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "In these two years since the so-called 'Jasmine Revolution', two irreversible developments have taken place in Tunisia, and more generally in the Arab world," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. M ...
• 14 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Campaign against illiteracy: The Church supports the initiative in favor of 850 thousand people Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial dedicated to the National Campaign for Literacy published by "Camino", the National Catholic weekly of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Catholic Church welco ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools reopen after the typhoon but there is still no electricity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - After the passage of devastating typhoon Bopha, which hit the country recently (see Fides 06/12/2012), thousands of children in the southern island of Mindanao are returning to school, late in co ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians disappeared: open letter to the President of the country Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Christian families who have suddenly "disappeared into thin air": the problem regarding, among other cases, the Boontheong family, in the province of Luang Namtha, or Khamsone Baccam, in the p ...
• 12 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New attacks against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint of Catholics Ciudad Ixtepec (Agenzia Fides) - In the early days of 2013, new aggression and violence is registered against migrants in Chiapas: the complaint, through Fides Agency, made by the "Casa del Migrante Hermanos en el Camino ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Maroun Lahham: we open our churches to the Syrian refugees of the camp of Zaatari Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In front of the humanitarian catastrophe that looms over the refugee camp of Zaatari - where snowstorms and freezing rain in recent days have swept away hundreds of tents - Archbishop Maroun Laham ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence and murder, the Taliban have arrived in Karachi: the Church launches the alarm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A generalized violence grips by fear Karachi, South Pakistan's port city: ways and strategies to stop it are urgently required, also because in the city "the Taliban are actively working," repor ...