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• 9 May 2011
  VATICAN-The Pope in Venice: "The Gospel is the greatest force for transforming the world, it is not utopia, nor ideology" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - By inviting representatives from the cultural, art and economy world not to be afraid of the Gospel, symbolically contained in the coat of arms of San Marco, the patron saint of Venice, bec ...
• 9 May 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT-Catholic church has also been attacked and the father of a postulant killed, "Muslims must reject violence based on religion," says a missionary in Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Twelve deaths and a hundred wounded is the toll of the assault carried out by groups of Salafis against some churches in the district of Imbaba, in the north-west of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. " ...
• 9 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Muslim minister out, new "Ministry for inter-religious harmony and Minorities is born" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - With yet another change, the Department of Religious Minorities in Pakistan becomes "Federal Ministry for Inter-faith Harmony and Minorities." At the Summit of the department two Catholic lead ...
• 9 May 2011
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR-"The reorganization of the capital without including violence, but dialogue, " says Archbishop Escobar Alas San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church approves the decision of the President of the Republic, Mauricio Funes, who extends by one year the presence in the capital of the Armed Forces with the responsibility f ...
• 9 May 2011
  AMERICA/HAITI-It is urgent to help Haitians affected by the earthquake to become self-sufficient West Hartford (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the enormous aid to the Haitian people hit by an earthquake 16 months ago, the Caribbean nation still needs a lot of support. A note of the Catholic Transcript, the magazine of ...
• 9 May 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA-Ignorance, fear and precariousness of services: are the main causes of 37% maternal deaths recorded each year La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Every year 37% of maternal deaths are recorded in health centers in Bolivia. According to data by the organization Visión Mundial, more than 17 000 kids and 600 mothers die annually in the count ...
• 9 May 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-Three events for the Diocese of Kao Hsiung: 130 years since the foundation of a parish, 30 years of priesthood for three Dominican missionaries and the opening of the new Center for the Laity Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Taiwan's Kao Hsiung celebrates three major events at the beginning of the month of Mary. According to the various bodies of information and information gathered by Fides, the ...
• 9 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-A " saffron colored corridor " to attack Christians: two Memorandum to the President of India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is a real "saffron-colored corridor" - the color used by militants of the Hindu extremist groups - which extends from one side to the other side in India, on the western and the easter ...
• 9 May 2011
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA -"United to promote the integral development and to eliminate poverty": concluded the First Congress on the social doctrine of the church Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Commission for the Social Pastoral, Archbishop Jorge Casaretto, Bishop of the Diocese of San Isidro, said that the Church of Argentina recognizes "all the progress ...
• 7 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-In the few years of his episcopal ministry, Bishop Lu gave a lot to the Diocese, working hard and without attracting attention Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 April, S.E.Mgr. Francis Lu Shouwang, Bishop of the Diocese of Yichang (Ichang), in Hubei province (China) died at the hospital of Tongji in Wuhan, where he was hospitalized last September for ...
• 7 May 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA-"The Church has become the reference point for the foreign community deprived of an embassy, " said Bishop Martinelli from Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We spent a very calm and silent night. Maybe there was a moment of reflection by those who bomb " Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli says to Fides. "I appreci ...
• 7 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Post Bin Laden: radio broadcast battle between " propaganda of hatred" and "propaganda of peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are radio stations that fuel religious hatred and terrorist propaganda and those who combine their efforts to send messages of peace, dialogue and harmony: it is through radio broadcast ...
• 7 May 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO-Towards the creation of “specialized mixed rooms” to judge the crimes committed against civilians Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 October 2010, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published the Mapping Report regarding the serious crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1993 to 2003, a ...
• 7 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Mother's Day in solitude for Asia Bibi, between pain and hope Lahore (Fides Service) - The pain of a mother who cannot embrace her children, prayer and trust in God, with the hope of salvation and freedom: with these feelings Asia Bibi - the Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to d ...
• 7 May 2011
  AMERICA/MEXICO-March for Peace, "the authorities must not be afraid to listen to the voice of the people, " says the Bishop of Saltillo Cuernavaca (Agenzia Fides) – The "March for peace, justice and dignity. " started May 5 in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos. More than 150 social organizations and other leading personalities jo ...