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• 6 December 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Irregularities in the consultation of the Tipnis have been found Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-institutional Commission formed by members of the Catholic Church, of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FI ...
• 6 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Zaki: It is not appropriate that Church Leaders give direct indication to boycott the constitutional referendum Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - The new Constitution that President Morsi persists in wanting to submit to a popular referendum on 15 December, "divides the Country and cannot represent the text of reference of the unity of ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - To grow the mustard seed of a tree in the Year of Faith: IX Seminar on Sacred Scripture Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - "To deepen the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" was the theme of the IX Seminar of Sacred Scripture in Taiwan, held recently in the Diocese of Hsin Chu. According to the ...
• 5 December 2012
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Short film to combat child labor Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor is one of the major problems of society. To try to cope with the phenomenon the Foundation Telefónica Colombia continues to be committed to the eradication of this scourge which affe ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - In the Year of Faith, a film about Jesus in Hindi to help evangelization New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is an initiative that "will help to communicate the Christian faith, to spread the real face of Christ and the Church to the people of India", this is what Fr. Dominic D'Abreo, Spokesman ...
• 5 December 2012
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua celebrates 450 years of devotion to Mary El Viejo (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua makes a pilgrimage tomorrow, December 6, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Nicaragua, in the town of El Viejo, in Chinandega, where a Mass will be celebrated ...
• 5 December 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - For 60 years the Commission for Missionary Action has been working for the mission at all levels Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Missionary Action celebrates 60 years of activity: in coordination with the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (CNBB) it promotes missionary action and evangelization, formation ...
• 5 December 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacre in Masisi: "this area of North Kivu must also be protected," said the JRS Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 28 people were killed in Masisi since November 29, as a consequence of an on-going fighting between rival armed groups. This was denounced in a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Of ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Love of God and Love of neighbor": Joint Letter of Bishops and Ulama for peace in Mindanao Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Islamic religious leaders are committed together to promote and build peace in the society of southern Philippines is what the joint Letter said published by the "Bishop Ulama Confe ...
• 5 December 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Raid against Islamist cell that was preparing to send fighters in Mali and Somalia Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese authorities announced they have dismantled a cell of Islamist extremists who were planning attacks on foreign diplomatic representatives and government officials. The security forc ...
• 5 December 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hunger, unemployment and exploitation aggravate the already precarious situations Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Every day 100,000 people, half of them children, die of hunger. It is about 85% of the world population. In the European Union every year 89 million tons of food is thrown away. According to figu ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Bishops of the Middle East prepare their appeal to the world. Archbishop Marayati: No to military solutions for Syria Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The political changes in the Middle East were today a central issue in the work of the second Congress of the Patriarchs and Bishops of the Middle East, being held in Harissa. A session of the a ...
• 5 December 2012
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - The ordination of two deacons concludes the meeting of the Bishops of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Santiago de Cabo Verde (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-territorial Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, held from 26 November to 2 December, its first ordinary meeting of the pastoral ye ...
• 5 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The driver who had just accompanied two Bishops of Aleppo at the airport was killed Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – He was called Youssef Karme. He was a Greek-Catholic driver, father of three children. He drove the buses of an Armenian Catholic school in Aleppo, and he often used his private car to transpor ...
• 4 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian missionary victim of an attack, in serious condition Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A lay Protestant Christian missionary was the victim of an attempted murder and is in critical condition in "Jinnah" hospital in Lahore, capital of the province of Punjab. Bargeeta Almby, 72, of ...