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• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Providing weapons just means extending the war, " says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, or rather a way to lenghthening it, " says Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Trip ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - "People need help, we must intervene: 25 000 refugees in the parish of the Salesians in Duékoué Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast who does not recognize the election of his successor, Alassane Ouattara, does not put an end to the tragic situation tha ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Profession of the Rule for 5 members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Five members of the Franciscan Third Order in Hong Kong have made a profession of the Rule on April 3. Among them was Don Francis Tam Kam Wing, the Hong Kong diocesan priest, who said that th ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Serious outbreak of measles since the beginning of the year 6,524 cases and 33 deaths have been recorded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A cholera outbreak in Katanga province continues to exacerbate another outbreak of measles which in the last six months has affected the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Children infected w ...
• 14 April 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egypt supports the mediation of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III with Ethiopia over the Nile waters Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Shenouda III, spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church could play a role as mediator in the dispute that opposes Egypt and Ethiopia for the redistribution of the Nile waters. According ...
• 14 April 2011
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment": Bishops' document La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Bolivia (CEB) presented the pastoral letter: "Catholics in Bolivia today, a presence of hope and commitment." The press conference was chaired by Archbishop Oscar Apar ...
• 14 April 2011
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Visit of solidarity by PM Pauletti in Haiti: "Involved in concrete support" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Brazil, Father Camilo Pauletti, spent a week in Haiti (April 2 to 9) and was able to see the problems, experiences and hopes of th ...
• 14 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "United as sisters in Christ": a letter from a cloistered nun to Asia Bibi Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "I feel very close to Asia Bibi, to her suffering, as a sister in Christ" writes Sister Mary Immaculate Perez to Fides, abbess of the nuns from the Franciscan Monastery Conception of Escalona ...
• 13 April 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girls, victims of forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In Pakistan forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages are on the rise. The victims are mostly Hindu and Christian girls, belonging to religious minorities, complain Fides local s ...
• 13 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Christian Churches in Tripoli ask for “an immediate and unconditional ceasefire by all parties involved” Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “The violence and bloodbath must stop immediately, as war is not the solution to the current problems,” affirms a statement by the Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches in Tripoli (Libya) ...
• 13 April 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Good Friday march and prayer for the victims of the rising anti-Christian attacks Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – On Good Friday, 22 April, there will be a silent pilgrimage, accompanied by fasting and prayer on the streets of Mumbai for more than 20,000 Indian Christians of all denominations. The initiati ...
• 13 April 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The fundamentalist message can not take root among the youth of the revolution,” says Fr Verdoscia from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The arrest of Mubarak was probably also determined by the former President's speech on television. The promoters of the revolt in Tahrir Square criticized Mubarak for defending himself, pointin ...
• 12 April 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - Religious awakening in Japan, wounded by the disaster: impact on society for the future Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – In Japan, wounded by the terrible natural events and struck by the nuclear disaster, we can see signs of a religious awakening: reports Fr Olmes Milani, CS, Scalabrinian missionary living in Tok ...
• 12 April 2011
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Captured Gbagbo remains incognito among armed civilians and the invisible commando Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “In some quarters of Abidjan firearms could still be heard throughout the night and also this morning,” says Jean Djoman, Director of Development and Human Promotion for Caritas in Abidjan, ...
• 12 April 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - “We should listen to youth to reach peace,” says Bishop Martinelli of Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - “We will see how it will all end. Unfortunately we can not see anything of substance yet,” says Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, following the transitional n ...