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• 16 November 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 220 million malnourished children, penalized in their growth and future Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the International Day of the Child, which will be held on November 20, the Spanish organization Acción contra el Hambre has reported that over 200 million children suffer from ...
• 16 November 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Controversy over a provision that hurts the religious sensibility of the sick Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The fundamental right to freedom of worship in force in the country was asked by the Archbishop of Cuenca, His Excellency Mons Luis Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., following the relocation of a statue of ...
• 16 November 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The appointment to Cardinal of Mgr. Onaiyekan: a sign of recognition of the growth of the Nigerian Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The appointment of the Archbishop of Abuja, Mgr. John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, to Cardinal, has aroused the pride of the whole of Nigeria," says to Fides Agency Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of S ...
• 16 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The forgotten conflict in Masisi: The complaint of the Jesuit Refugee Service Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Over the past six months the forces of MONUSCO (United Nations Mission in Congo) have supported the Congolese army against the March 23 Movement (M23) in the district of Rutshuru in North Kivu ...
• 16 November 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic pastoral operator Killed on the islets of "Abu Sayyaf" Bongao (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Conchita Francisco, 62, pastoral worker, a widow and mother of two children, was shot to death, by unidentified men in front of the Catholic Cathedral of Bongao, in the Philippine pr ...
• 16 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Representatives of Christian Churches announce the withdrawal from the Constituent Assembly. Bishop Zaki: Egyptian identity is at risk Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Christian Churches in Egypt have announced their withdrawal from the Constituent Assembly charged with drafting the new constitution of the great North African Country. ...
• 15 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The faithful of Xian Xian have not forgotten Fr. Ting Ming-Cheng, the French Jesuit who spent half a century of his life to the mission in China Xian Xian (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou) of He Bei province, received with great honor a group of distinguished guests: Fr. Ting Ming-Cheng’s relatives, as the French Jesuit missionary Ghe ...
• 15 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Death of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. Patriarch Laham: "May his death be an offer for peace" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Jules Baghdassarian, 55, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Syria, a position he had held since 2003, died yesterday at noon, following a sudden heart attack. Fr J ...
• 15 November 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "We cannot close our eyes or keep silent before the serious problems the country faces " Bishops during the 50th Episcopal Conference Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Bolivian Bishops reiterated their concerns and said they will be careful and will not remain silent before the serious problems that threaten the country. Their purpose is contained in the me ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Alarm within easy reach of the capital for a new outbreak of Ebola Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda a new outbreak of deadly Ebola is ongoing that so far has recorded two deaths, both belonging to the same family, in Luweero district, 62 kilometers away from the capital Kampala. Last ...
• 15 November 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister Valsa John’s murder: after a year, the trial for the culprits has not yet begun Dumka (Agenzia Fides) - A year after Sister Valsa John’s death, a nun of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary killed in the Indian state of Jharkhand on November 15, 2011, "the trial for the culprits has not yet be ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Two thousand farmers have lost their crops due to flooding and they risk serious diseases Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - Flash floods have washed away the rice harvest of about 2,000 farmers in western Kenya, flooding some of their houses and emptying latrines into watercourses. Officials at the Ministry of Agricul ...
• 15 November 2012
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "This suffering must end": The Bishops call for an immigration reform in 2013 Baltimore (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Los Angeles, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Gomez, who chairs the Committee on Migration of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the United States of America (USCCB), urged re-elected Pres ...
• 15 November 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II: Coptic Orthodox representatives may withdraw from the Constituent Assembly Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II hopes that the new Constitution in the process of being drafted retains without modification Article 2 of the previous text of the Constitution - which rec ...
• 14 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Car bomb outside a church in northeastern Syria Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - A car bomb exploded in front of the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, in the city of Raqqah, in northeastern Syria, causing two deaths and injuring a woman, all civilians. As confirmed by Fi ...