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• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Churches: "We will exercise our constitutional right on the use of the name of Allah" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia will not observe the ban on using the word "Allah", imposed yesterday by the decree of the Sultan of Selangor state. The Churches in Malaysia are united with a common ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The situation of indigenous peoples requires the remedy of centuries of marginalization and injustice": Bishops on Mapuche Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops members of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile expressed their "deep concern" about the conflict that the village of La Araucanía is experiencing and stress ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - New massacres in the Tana Delta, concern for the hundreds of thousands of weapons in circulation Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 11 people were killed in the village of Kibusu, in the region of the Tana Delta, in Kenya, in an attack carried out at dawn today, January 10. Among the victims were five children. The ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: the influx of refugees from Syria threatens to destabilize the country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The hospitality towards refugees fleeing from the war-torn Syria is a meritorious act that must be encouraged. But with the relentless rise in the number of refugees, the dangers of political sta ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church also participates in the campaign for disarmament in the capital Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Catholic Church participates in a concrete way to the initiatives regarding the research of peace and tranquility in the capital," said the Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Norberto ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Christian community trapped and completely worn out in the north of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - About a thousand Christians among Greek-Orthodoxs and Roman Catholics are trapped in the small village of Yaakoubieh, all Christian, in the north of Aleppo. They are completely worn out, with no ...
• 10 January 2013
  AFRICA/MALI-Clashes between army and rebels, while in the capital protests continue Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that there were clashes between last night and the early morning of today, around the area of Konna, between the army and rebels, but the authorities havenot given precise information ab ...
• 10 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Worrying situation of poverty among Mexican children and adolescents Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, to be a child, teenager means being exposed to the risk of poverty, because of the discrimination suffered by age. According to estimates by CONEVAL-UNICEF (2010), in the country, ...
• 9 January 2013
  VATICAN - 150th Anniversary of Pauline-Marie Jaricot’s death-the Servant of God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) The French Episcopal Conference declared in 2012, the Jubilee Year in honor of the servant of God, the venerable Pauline, who died 150 years ago in Lyon, on January 9, 1862. 2012 was also t ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Oratory: testimony of the commitment of the children of Don Bosco in the formation of the youth Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian Oratory Cheung Chau Don Bosco Oratory, which celebrated half a century of foundation in Hong Kong, is the testimony of the continuous and renewed commitment in the formative servi ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A group of children at school under a bridge, despite the severe temperatures New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In this period climatic temperatures are more severe than usual in India. In the north of the country 100 people have died from the cold. In this cold climate, with freezing temperatures, a gr ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: "A Jubilee Year, freedom and reconciliation, for Myanmar" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - What has just begun is "a jubilee year for Myanmar," in fact "after 50 years of suffocating darkness, today a bright light shines in the beautiful country of Burma": is what is said in a message ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In California, one child out of 5 lives below the poverty line, the phenomenon is on the rise Sacramento (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the State of California will have to face serious financial difficulties if they do not just focus on the growing phenomenon of poverty among children. This is what emerges ...
• 9 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - For the Jesuits in the Mapuche Mission "we must resolve long-standing problems for lasting peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "From Tirúa, the Jesuits and their collaborators who walk in solidarity with the Mapuche community, want to again express the total rejection of violence and reaffirm their commitment to dialogu ...
• 9 January 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The priest of Rwandan origins expelled in August returns to Zambia Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Viateur Banyangandora, the priest of Rwandan origins expelled by the Zambian authorities in early August (see Fides 07/08/2012), returned to the country on January 7. Fr. Banyangandora was we ...