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• 20 March 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR-"If I do not work dad punishes me": 15 000 children working in the streets of Quito Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "If I do not work dad punishes me": this is the reality for over 15 000 children in the capital of Ecuador, Quito, working as peddlers in the streets of the city. According to the Instituto de la ...
• 20 March 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Negotiation for the two Italians kidnapped "has not started", the police ask Churches and NGOs for help Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) - "Negotiation for the release of the two Italians kidnapped in Orissa has not yet begun. The Maoist rebels want the government of Orissa to first meet the 13 conditions they demand. They do ...
• 20 March 2012
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-El Salvador recalls Mgr. Romero, murdered 32 years ago San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The anniversary of Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero’s death will be celebrated for the first time in the church of the Rosary, because the war veterans have occupied the Metropolitan Cathedral o ...
• 20 March 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The death of Pope Shenouda III: "The Christian world has lost one of its exemplary leaders", said Cardinal Erdő on behalf of European Bishops Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Pope Shenouda III, leader of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, died on March 17 are held today, March 20, in St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo. "We were shaken by the sad news of th ...
• 20 March 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR-The Apostolic Exhortation Africae Munus at the center of the meeting of the African Regional Episcopal Conferences Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The second meeting of the Secretary Generals of the Regional Episcopal Conferences of Africa (15-20 March) ends today, March 20, in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. According to a s ...
• 20 March 2012
  AFRICA - Thousands of children continue to die due to a "mysterious disease" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - A mysterious disease is claiming many victims among the children of northern Uganda, southern Sudan and Tanzania. It is a deadly pandemic which has not yet been identified and registered for the ...
• 16 March 2012
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The attention of the Bishops is also towards the clash between the local landless and Brazilian settlers Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly n. 193 of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) is in progress, which analysis, among other problems of the social reality of the country, the conflict between the Brazilian s ...
• 16 March 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Redemptorists of Bahia promote the missionary formation of religious and laity Bahia (Agenzia Fides) - The Redemptorist Missionary Center of Bahia proposes Formation Mission Courses in response to the appeal of Aparecida (no. 174), and to provide service to communities, parishes and dioceses in the ...
• 16 March 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN-African and Latin America crafts for the promotion of women in India Santander (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Catholic Association Manos Unidas of Cantabria has just opened its traditional bazaars of solidarity that, for 28 years, has aimed to raise funds for development projects and the e ...
• 16 March 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong encourages the laity to evangelize with a smile, passing on the joy of being Christians Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Being a happy Catholic, to evangelize with a smile, passing on the joy of being Christians, awaiting the Year of Faith: are the recommendations of the Bishop of Hong Kong, the newly-elected Ca ...
• 16 March 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "The humanitarian mission is a blessed initiative" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The humanitarian mission is a blessed initiative, that we encourage strongly. We need an urgent effort: although we have no details yet on its development, it is an intervention welcomed and l ...
• 16 March 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities, blasphemy, rights: the work of Shahbaz Bhatti officially arrives in Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The "All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA), Association of Pakistani civil society, founded in 2002 by Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic Minister for Minorities, murdered a year ago in Islamabad, puts ...
• 16 March 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Negotiations between the government and Boko Haram? For the Archbishop of Jos, "maybe it would be better to identify the sponsors of the sect" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know what the government is doing, but I know that Boko Haram is a ruthless group that sends people to kill themselves to kill others. I do not know how you deal with them " says to Fide ...
• 16 March 2012
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - One of the poorest countries with the greatest mineral wealth in the world Ulan Bator (Agenzia Fides) - It was the month of July 2001 when a Canadian company announced the discovery of one of the largest gold deposits in Oyu Tolgoi, in the Mongolian Turquoise Mountain. Since then, mining compan ...
• 16 March 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Nuba Mountains: too many victims of war put a strain on the staff of the only hospital in the area Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that has been disrupting the Nuba Mountains since June 2011 is putting in serious crisis the ability of the local hospital to take care of the victims, hit by bullets and bomb shrapnel. ...