News

• 29 July 2016
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Confirmation of the National PMS Director Rev. Antun Stefan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 30 June 2016, confirmed Rev. Antun Stefan, a member of the clergy of the diocese of Varazdin ...
• 29 July 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New Rector of Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 20 May 2016, appointed Rector of Good Shepherd Major Interdiocesan Seminary in Kaduna, Nig ...
• 29 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of new Rector at St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 30 April 2016, appointed Rector of St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad, India, Rev. ...
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  29 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Campaign on several fronts to discredit the Church in Venezuela, referendum still delayed Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ramon Ovidio Pérez Morales, emeritus of the Venezuelan diocese of Los Teques and former President of the Venezuelan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CEV), has warned the people bewa ...
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  29 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al Sisi receives Patriarch Tawadros; polemic over Coptic Christian protests in the United States Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The citizens of Egypt whatever their religious community, “have equal rights and duties as established by the Constitution ”. Egypt’s Christians have demonstrated “wisdom and a spirit ...
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  29 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - “al-Nusra Front” takes new name. Bishop Audo: a purely tactical move, there is no such thing as 'moderate rebels' Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The decision of the Jabhat al-Nusra jihadist group to take a new name and announce that it has formally left the al Qaida network, represents “purely a tactical move to accredit the simulacr ...
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  29 July 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Day for Latin American Martyrs", remembering also Bishop Enrique Angelelli murdered 40 years ago Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) – Thursday 4 August the diocese of Neuquen and its Bishop Virginio Bressanelli, S.C.I. will mark the "Day for Latin American Martyrs", remembering also the 40th anniversary of the death of ...
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  29 July 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Never seen so many people living on the streets" says Bishop of Neuquén Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) – In recent months the number of homeless persons has grown considerably, "never before in my six years here, have I seen so many people living on the streets " said Bishop Virginio Bressanelli ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - “Follow Saint Francis and live the Jubilee”: Chinese youth in communion with WYD Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – “Follow Saint Francis and live the Jubilee”:” with this slogan a Franciscan summer parish youth camp, in the diocese of Zhou Zhi in Shaan Xi province, mainland China, young Chinese Cat ...
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  28 July 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Prison should not be seen as a place to lose hope, but somewhere to learn from our mistakes Aysén (Agenzia Fides) – "Prison it not a place to lose hope, instead it can be a time to start a new way of life to help build a society of more justice and brotherhood; the loss of freedom does not mean the los ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Palestine's Scout movement one of the oldest reinvigorated Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) – After a long period of suspension of contact with analogous groups and networks at the global level, the Scout Movement in Palestine, re-connects with its long history taking part gatheri ...
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  28 July 2016
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Church's Social Teaching with an app especially for young people Krakow (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, on 26 July presented the young participants at the 31 World Youth Day in Krakow an app on the Catholic Church’s Social Teaching create ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: it is “shameful” to have to wait for other countries to decide who shall be the next President of Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - “It is shameful that the Lebanese people should have to wait for years while other countries in the region choose who shall be the new President of their country”. This is how Maronite ...
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  28 July 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Situation ever more serious”: the Bishop of Apartado denounces more than 1,500 people blocked AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Situation ever more serious”: the Bishop of Apartado denounces more than 1,500 people blocked Turbo (Agenzia Fides) – With the number of illegal migrants passing into the Colombian town of ...
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  27 July 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Independence Day: Bishops call for commitment to combat lawlessness, poverty and corruption AMERICA/PERU – Independence Day: Bishops call for commitment to combat lawlessness, poverty and corruption Lima (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of Independence Day in Peru, tomorrow 28 July, the country’s Bis ...