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• 7 September 2012
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Migration and New Evangelization": next Sunday Migrants Day Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, September 9, the Church in Bolivia celebrates National Migrants Day and Refugees under the slogan: "Migration and New Evangelization." This year, the main activities will be held i ...
• 7 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The 25 candidates for the 10 September presidential elections have been chosen Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - There are 25 candidates in the 10 September Somali presidential elections approved by the Electoral Parliamentary Commission. Today, September 7, candidates will present their program to the S ...
• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - A million children under 5 years of age are malnourished Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the massive international aid to Afghanistan, about one third of children under five years of age of the entire northern region, amounting to one million, suffer from malnutrition, a level ...
• 7 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Controversy about sending a military force of West African Countries Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "It will take some time to launch a military operation in the north of Mali, with the support of ECOWAS troops" says to Fides Agency Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conf ...
• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha is free; her case upholds the review of the blasphemy law Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Pakistani judge Muhammad Azam Khan granted the bail for Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager arrested in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy for having burned pages of the Koran. T ...
• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - More than one million children are at risk because of the food and health crisis Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In Syria and neighboring countries where they have taken refuge, there is an alarm for minors due to the shortage of food and health care facilities. There are tens of thousands of children inv ...
• 6 September 2012
  VATICAN - Pope's Message: "Today all of Africa awaits the 'ambassadors' of the Good News, the lay faithful enamoured of Christ and the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Women and men, young and old, children, families and all of society: today all of Africa awaits the "ambassadors" of the Good News, the lay faithful from the parishes, ecclesial movements ...
• 6 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - In the parish of Jiang Yin, the Diocese of Nan Jing, 294 baptized in eight months Nan Jing (Agenzia Fides) - In the first eight months of 2012, the parish of Jiang Yin of the Diocese of Nan Jing, in the province of Jiang Su, welcomed 294 new members after a long journey of preparation and catechesis. ...
• 6 September 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Small steps to reduce child malnutrition, but the problem remains very serious Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia 1 child under 5 years of age out of three suffer from malnutrition, both in the acute and chronic form, stunting and impairment. Although, according to the latest statistics carried ...
• 6 September 2012
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Finding out the truth" asks the Apostolic Vicar of Puetro Ayacucho about the massacre of the Yanomami Puerto Ayacucho (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the massacre of 80 indigenous ethnic Yanomami in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Brazil, released by the media last week, caused the reaction of the Venezuelan gov ...
• 6 September 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The campaign to recruit new military has been launched: is this what is really needed to end the war in Kivu? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese army has launched a campaign to recruit new troops, officially not related to the war in North Kivu, where one must deal with the rebel movement M23, consisting largely of deserte ...
• 6 September 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "With faith in communion we participate in the Mission": meeting of the Missionary Union of the Sick Tampico (Agenzia Fides) - From 13 to 16 September 2012, the Mexican Diocese of Tampico will host the XVI National Meeting of the UEM (Union Enfermos Misionarios). According to the statement sent to Fides Agency, the main ...
• 6 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Mine in Marikana: an agreement for peace has been reached, but it is not signed by all Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Three miners' unions, the company Lomnine that operates the platinum mine in Marikana (the scene of the massacre on 16 August when the police caused the deaths of 34 protesters) and the Sou ...
• 6 September 2012
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Literacy as a guarantee of peace; 64% of the illiterate are women and girls Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Literacy and Peace" is the theme of this year's Literacy Day that will highlight the link between unstable democratic systems, conflict and lack of education. In this regard, the work do ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith, testimony and evangelization: the program of the diocese of Xian Xian for the Year of Faith Cang Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Faith, testimony and evangelization are the three key points of the program of the diocese of Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou), in the province of He Bei province, mainland China for the Year of Fa ...