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• 12 November 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Poupard, Special Envoy at the closure of the Jubilee Year dedicated to Pauline Jaricot Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Paul Poupard, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture, his Special Envoy for the closing celebrations of the jubilee year de ...
• 12 November 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Assembly of the Missionaries: to strengthen faith for the Permanent Mission and contribute to a New Evangelization. Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Missions of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference organizes the General Assembly of the National Missionary Center and of the Pontifical Mission Societies, which will be held ...
• 12 November 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - The population in favor of military intervention in the north, where the humanitarian situation is worsening Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the population has welcomed the decision of ECOWAS to send a military force to northern Mali" says to Fides Agency Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of ...
• 12 November 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Earthquake in the town center: deaths, injuries and several missing Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, November 11, an earthquake 6.6 magnitude on the Richter scale shook central Burma, causing five deaths, 19 injuries and limited material damage. Many people could be missing. ...
• 12 November 2012
  ASIA - "Year of Faith" and the New Evangelization in Asia: what vision and what hopes? Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "Our humble service is to help modern society to find a soul. In the Year of Faith it is necessary to restore faith in the different contexts of life. In Asia it must seek common ground with peo ...
• 10 November 2012
  VATICAN - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples concludes the celebrations for the Centenary of the Evangelization of Owerri Owerri (Agenzia Fides) - "One hundred years of evangelization in Owerri mean that this Church in Nigeria can be considered 'venerable', even though in relation to other century-old churches it is considered to be young. ...
• 10 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The historic Evangelical Church of Aleppo destroyed with explosives Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Arabic Evangelical Church of Aleppo, in the Jdeideh district (the old town), was mined with explosives and blown up "by armed men, for pure sectarian hatred": This is what Pastor Ibr ...
• 10 November 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Earthquake in Guatemala : 52 victims, the plan of aid and solidarity has begun San Marcos (Agenzia Fides) – 52 people have died due to the earthquake on November 7, while 22 people are still considered missing, according to the report of Caritas Guatemala, sent to Fides Agency. Official figures s ...
• 10 November 2012
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Reconciliation does not mean" blank state" and even less impunity, we must engage in the search for truth," the Bishops say Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Truth concerning the years of military dictatorship and justice for the victims of violence. Is what the Argentinean Bishops hope in the document published yesterday, November 9, at the end ...
• 10 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the "Day for Malala" a new literacy program Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani government, Churches and minorities, civil society, the entire nation gathers around Malala Yusufzai, the 15-year-old activist, victim of an assassination attempt, carried out a ...
• 10 November 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Force Khartoum to stop the dropping bombs on civilians in the Nuba Mountains" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The residents of Kauda in the Nuba Mountains have called on the international community to pressurize the Sudanese government to stop dropping bombs on civilians. The Nuba Mountains are part of ...
• 10 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - More than 200 Muslim girls enrolled in the Catholic school in Swat, hit by Taliban Sangota (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic girls' school of the Sisters of the Presentation in Sangota, in the heart of the Swat valley (province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa), "reopened a few months ago, has more than 200 enrolled ...
• 10 November 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - In Masisi an interethnic conflict ignored by all, 4 women and 2 children the latest victims Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the region of Masisi (North Kivu), the population is suffering the consequences of interethnic conflict that is ignored by the international community, while it continues to focus its atten ...
• 9 November 2012
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in Owerri: prepare to be the heralds of the New Evangelization Owerri (Agenzia Fides) - In the chapel of the Seminary of Owerri dedicated to Mary "Sedes Sapientiae" (Seat of Wisdom), which is "the heart of all those Dioceses and Congregations that send their seminarians here to be p ...
• 9 November 2012
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Murder of an Indian Christian doctor: religious motivation is excluded Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - There is no religious motivation or Islamic fundamentalism behind the murder of a Christian Indian doctor Rajan Daniel, who was killed on November 2 in the UAE. The man was killed with numerou ...