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• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Valparaíso, "we must not accept any attack on the life of an unborn child for allegedly therapeutic reasons" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Gonzalo Duarte García, Bishop of Valparaiso, in Chile, has recently launched an appeal to the Christians of his country so that they oppose to the laws that allow abortion or are likely ...
• 26 September 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Presidential elections in November: the Church lines up 30,000 electoral observers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 30,000 electoral observers that the Catholic Church is preparing to line up to help ensure the regularity of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be ...
• 26 September 2011
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "We urgently need to break the chain of violence", Nunzio's appeal Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, stressed the urgent need to break the chain of violence and death that affects the Dominican Republic and asked ...
• 26 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - After the bomb in a church, interfaith prayer in Solo to say "No" to violence Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - There is concern and confusion among Christians of the diocese of Semarang (Central Java) after the suicide attack which occurred yesterday, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in a Protestant Christian churc ...
• 26 September 2011
  AFRICA - An agreement to control child trafficking between Benin and the Congo has been signed Pointe-Noire (Agenzia Fides) - Benin and the Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to control the trafficking of children between the two countries. From some recent data it is clear that 1800 children from Benin, m ...
• 24 September 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Forthcoming visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "His Exc. Mgr. Tommaso Caputo, Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and Libya, should come to Tripoli on September 28 for a courtesy call" says Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli to Fides, Apostolic Vicar of Tr ...
• 24 September 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aquinas" in the Archdiocese of Bamenda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 2011 Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the Theological inter-diocesan Major Seminary "St. Thomas Aq ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The phenomenon of "missing girls" continues to increase Dehradun (Agenzia Fides) - India is the fourth country in the world most at risk for the female gender, after Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan, and the widespread practice of selective abortion of female fetuses makes the ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - To further strengthen evangelization: the exhortation on behalf of Mgr. Tong to the Legion of Mary Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "A competent force of the diocesan evangelization": this is the appreciation and consideration shown by Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, to the 1,500 members of the Legion of Mary who came ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Statistics on communal violence: debate on the law for the protection of minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 episodes of violence in four years, 648 people died and 11 thousand were injured in the 24 states of the Indian Federation: these statistics released by the Indian Bishops on v ...
• 23 September 2011
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Religious communities are aware of their role in the construction of a new society Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "All the religious communities showed a keen awareness that Albania today is still a society in transition: some issues from the past remain unresolved and there are significant political, social a ...
• 23 September 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-ITNPIS march: The Church is always available to guide the dialogue between the sides La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The march in defense of the Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Secure, ITNPIS (see Fides 30/08/2011, 20/09/2011), has stopped in the small town of San Miguel de Chaparina about 8 kilomete ...
• 23 September 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Opposition leader Michael Sata is the new President of the Country Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Zambia have expressed themselves and we must all listen to them. This is not the moment for violence and revenge. This is is the moment for unity and to build together the future o ...
• 23 September 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Nearly 100 years after the first law against human trafficking, the struggle of the Church continues Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Today, September 23, at 5pm at Plaza Constitucion in the capital of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, sj, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, will celebrate a Mass for the victims of human ...
• 23 September 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the Theological Major Seminary "Notre Dame de l'Espérance" in the Archdiocese of Bertoua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 15 July 2011 appointed Rector of the inter-diocesan Theological Major Seminary "Notre Dame de l ...