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• 7 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than a thousand children killed by their families because of poverty Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - According to local humanitarian sources, because of poverty, over a thousand children were killed by their families in Pakistan in 2011, of whom 90% were girls. The charitable organization Edhi F ...
• 7 January 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE-"Pauline Jaricot, a woman always present": international meeting for the Jubilee Year Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), declared "venerable" by Pope John XXIII on February 25, 1963, devoted her life to the mission, prayer and service to the poor: she founded the Society for the Pro ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN-The Pope to the Missionary Childhood: "May your heart be open to the world, as the heart of Jesus" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, during the Angelus on January 6, recalled the Day of Missionary Childhood: "I highlight that the Epiphany is also the Children's Missionary Day, organized by t ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN-Archbishop Fernando Filoni among the Cardinals named by the Pope, together with two Asian Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Angelus on the solemnity of the Epiphany, January 6, the Holy Father Benedict XVI announced for February 18 a Consistory in which he will proceed to the appointment of 22 ...
• 7 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Christians fleeing the violence of the "Boko Haram" sect, which has "changed strategy" Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Christians of indigenous tribes in the state of Yobe are terrified and are preparing to abandon their ancestral territories, due to the threats and violence of the Islamic militia gro ...
• 7 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu and Muslim radicals infiltrated into Churches: Christian Ong’s alarm Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic Fundamentalists and Hindu radicals are infiltrating into the Christian community and Christian NGOs in India: their goal is to obtain material that can be used against Christians, espe ...
• 7 January 2012
  VATICAN - More than 300 dioceses in the world celebrate Pauline Jaricot, pioneer of the mission ad gentes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 dioceses in the world, in five continents, will celebrate on 9 January, the 150th anniversary of Pauline Jaricot’s death: this is what Father Timothy Lehane Barrett, Secreta ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: "The political tension must not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hope is that the political tensions does not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people ", says to Fides Fr. Gerard Hammond, Maryknoll Missionary and Director of Program ...
• 5 January 2012
  VATICAN - "Boys and girls, make yourselves heard, without shame and uncertainty always trusting in God", the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood urges all boys and girls Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in 2012, the year of Faith wanted by the Holy Father. Boys and girls, you belong to Missionary Childhood and therefore you believe in the role you have been entrusted, to bear ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph have been in service to society for 120 years Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are a presence that is leaven for the Church and society: the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang (in the province of He Bei) celebrated the 12 ...
• 5 January 2012
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - More than 10 million pilgrims at the Shrine of Aparecida in 2011 Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The National Shrine of Aparecida, which is located in the northern city of Aparecida (São Paulo State), welcomed a total of 10.885.878 million visitors in 2011. This is what the Episcopal Con ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - People are hungry for food and spiritual health: new group of Lay Camillian Family in Gojra Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Lay Camillian Family (LCF) in Pakistan continues to bear its fruit. In a statement just sent to Fides, Father Mushtaq Anjum, MI, reports some good news. After hearing ab ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New enthusiasm for the mission in the Year of grace 2012, between proclamation and solidarity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2012 will be "a year of grace for the mission" in the Philippines: the Episcopal Conference has in fact declared it the "Year of the Pontifical Mission Societies" (POM), a period that wi ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A sewing institute was inaugurated by the religious Camillians cutting for poor girls Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The religious Camillians have just opened the St. Camillus Sewing Center, in a small village called Chak 6/4-L, MF, in Okara, in the diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan. This is what father Mus ...
• 4 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Evangelization, Laity and Family: Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization, Christian initiation of adults, laity and family, as indicated by the Holy Father in his Letter to Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the main themes that Mgr. John Tong Bis ...