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• 7 October 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Family House Teresa de los Andes: it is difficult to get aid to help sick children Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, Oct. 3, the Family House Teresa de los Andes celebrated, with a thanksgiving Mass presided by Mgr.Sergio Gualberti, Coadjutor Archbishop of Santa Cruz, 22 years since its foundatio ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "All the baptized for the mission of the Church, which is the mission of Christ": the testimony of a religious Camillian Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 October all the parishes of the Catholic Church in Pakistan will celebrate World Mission Day, and the whole Church of the Asian country is getting ready for this moment. "This is a day ...
• 7 October 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A priest was killed in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. According to the information Fides gathered, don Awuor Kisero, who had returned to Kenya from Italy a few days before, was attacked by f ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics live the traditional celebration of the elderly according to Christian teaching Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him. Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you exult"(Pr 23.24 to 25). The continental C ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radical groups in the square, wave of arrests, minorities under attack Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A day of high tension in Pakistan because of protest marches and a strike called by Islamic radical groups of "Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat" ("Alliance to defend the name of the Prophet") to ask f ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Courses on technology for children at risk Sihanoukville (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of October, 20 young people at risk in the remote Cambodian province of Kep, Takeo and Kompot will start to attend training courses on Internet technologies and web design ...
• 6 October 2011
  VATICAN - Pope's new appeal for the Horn of Africa: "I invite everyone to offer prayers and concrete support" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the general audience on Wednesday, October 5, held at St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI made a new appeal for the drammatic situation of the people in the Horn of Africa. ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Over one thousand faithful welcome three new priests in the diocese of Yan An Yan An (Agenzia Fides) - There were over a thousand faithful of the diocese of Yan An, in the province of Shaa Xi, who attended the ordination of three new diocesan priests on October 3. The solemn ceremony was presided ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - First meeting of national missionary of seminarians, in the light of Aparecida and the Continental Mission Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the celebrations for the missionary month of October, from 6 to 9 October, at the Major Seminary "Christ the King" of Rancagua, the first meeting of the National Missionary of Semina ...
• 6 October 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Fears for the outbreak of a conflict of ample proportions in Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing alarm about the risk of a possible civil war in Sudan, after the announcement that the rebels active in Darfur, in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile region are about to conclu ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Different dialogues to build peace: conflict analysis and experiences of dialogue Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Today and tomorrow, October 6 and 7, the Third National Meeting for Peace-building with the title "Different dialogues to build peace" will be held in Bogota, at the headquarters of the Episcopal ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/CANADA - "For a Better World": video clip of the PMS for the missionary month of October Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the missionary month of October, which will culminate on World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies of the French-speaking Canada put a new video clip online which l ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 600 thousand displaced persons, victims of typhoons: humanitarian help is urgently needed Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "More than 600 thousand displaced people are struggling to survive, they are in the pouring rain, and they find shelter in churches, they hope to receive humanitarian help", says Fr. Socrates Mes ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian women do not report the violence between couples in order to protect their children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 56% of the population over 18 years of age in four cities of Peru believe that women do not report incidents of violence to avoid retaliation against their children. A recent survey conducted in Li ...
• 6 October 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church encourages parents to get their children vaccinated Tuxpan (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the Third National Week of Health in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the Catholic Church invited all parents to get their children vaccinated against various diseases. In their ...