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12 May 2014
EUROPE/GERMANY-MUNICH - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Monaco as Nat ...
12 May 2014
OCEANIA/PAPUA N.GUINEA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 January 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People, confirmed Fr. Valentine Gryk, SVD as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
12 May 2014
AMERICA/CANADA - Cameroonian priest killed in a firefight in Canada
Saint Paul (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Paul Terrio, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul in Alberta (Canada) and the Catholic community of Saint Paul, mourn the violent death of Father Gilbert Dasna, of the Congregation of th ...
12 May 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The blasphemy law needs to be amended: demonstration in Punjab
Faisalabad ( Agenzia Fides) - The government needs to urgently amend the blasphemy law, which has become "a deadly weapon" for human right defenders, journalists, moderate Muslims, members of religious minorities and oth ...
12 May 2014
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Challenges before the elections", the Bishops call the national community to vote in a conscious way
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "With this text we launch an appeal to Brazilians so they themselves express their right to vote in a conscious way": this is what the Archbishop of Aparecida and President of the Conference o ...
12 May 2014
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We are in an open-pit prison held hostage by violent people" denounce the Bishops
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Republic is an open-pit prison, where freedom of movement and freedom of speech are conditioned" denounces a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Permanent Council of the Ce ...
12 May 2014
AFRICA/GABON - Extreme poverty in a Country with one million and a half inhabitants
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - 30% of the Gabonese population lives below the poverty line. In an African country such data, compared to other countries of the continent, should not cause alarm, however, the number is very ...
12 May 2014
ASIA/INDIA - A Capuchin friar: "More schools in rural areas to ensure the right to education"
Trichy (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church, very active in the field of education, "has a duty to launch and manage educational institutes not only in cities but also in rural areas, to serve the poor and the marginalize ...
12 May 2014
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the presidential elections: a power vacuum would erase the role of Christians
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, has relaunched the alarm about the destabilizing effects the power vacuum, caused by the failure to elect a president before May 25 ...
12 May 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We want concrete action to free kidnapped girls"; maybe some of them are in Central Africa
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja has called for “concrete action” to save the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. "We want concrete action to free the kidnapped girls", said Cardinal Jo ...
12 May 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Disabled children deprived of medical care and schooling
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are between 40 and 80 million disabled people, about 2.1% of the population. Among these, 60% are children and the most affected are children under 14 years of age. There are no ...
9 May 2014
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides ) - On May 21, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Gustavo Adrian Benitez, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missi ...
9 May 2014
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Augustine" philosophical interdiocesan Seminary in Kabgayi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Patrick K. Simutowe, of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpi ...
9 May 2014
ASIA/INDIA - A priest : "Development and education, priorities for the future of India"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As we approach May 16, when the results of the general election will be made known, Fr. Faustine Lobo, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in India, in an interview ...
8 May 2014
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the Mater Ecclesiae College: Religious women, missionary outposts and proclamation of the Gospel
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that in our College, while we form the young to the service of God, the Church and its religious Family, we also carry out a principle of duty to the advancement of women in the life of th ...
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