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13 June 2015
AMERICA/PERU - National Week of the Migrant: Letter of Bishops to 3 million Peruvians abroad
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - During the celebration of the National Week of the Migrant (from 15 to 21 June), the Bishops of Peru, through the commission for human mobility, sent a letter to all the countrymen who are outside ...
13 June 2015
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Still no contact with the kidnappers of the priest kidnapped
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ekiti has asked the faithful not to enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of Fr. Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict of Ido-Elkit (in south-west Nigeria), seized on ...
12 June 2015
EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni: "Today the Church in Poland needs to continue on the missionary path"
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Poland today needs to continue on the missionary path, just like Holy Pope John Paul II, who with his 'Redemptoris Missio' gave renewed impetus to the whole Church. And his word an ...
12 June 2015
ASIA/INDIA - The Director of the PMS: "Farmers and religious minorities abandoned by the Indian government"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A year after its election, the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has abandoned farmers, the backbone of the Indian economy, and granted a free hand to extremist groups who ...
12 June 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are concerned about the new poor", said Mgr. Ojea, head of Caritas
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is concerned about the situation of poverty in the country, after the controversy following the statements of President Cristina Kirchner, according to which the figures indicate ...
12 June 2015
AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "let us avoid repeating the language of those who want to destroy the family"
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 June the preparatory meeting for the Synod on the family to be held in October in Rome was held in Accra (Ghana). According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, the meeting, entitled ...
12 June 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - President Assad meets the Patriarch and the Synod of Syrian-Orthodox Bishops
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received members of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church yesterday, Thursday, June 11, in Damascus, who in these days under the leadership of Patriarch ...
12 June 2015
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Gandhinagar and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 June 2015, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar (India), by His Exc. Mgr. Stanislaus Fernandes, S.I., in accordance ...
12 June 2015
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN representative offers himself as a mediator in the national dialogue
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Martin Kobler, has offered to mediate in the national dialogue (see Fides 02/06/2015) initiated by President Josesph Kabila in view of the upcom ...
12 June 2015
ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Parolin inaugurates a new church for the Catholics of the United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic church dedicated to Saint Paul was inaugurated today, Friday, June 12, in Mussaffah, in the presence of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of State.
The day before, th ...
11 June 2015
ASIA/CHINA - Five years of continuous Eucharistic adoration have strengthened faith and mission
Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - For five years, 24 hours a day, without interruption, the faithful of the parish of Corpus Christi of Liao Ning, in mainland China, alternate with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. For t ...
11 June 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "In this America's Cup, and always, say no to trafficking": campaign against human trafficking
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - America's Cup 2015 begins today, the most important sporting event to be held from June 11 to July 4 in Chile. In this circumstance, various Church organizations and civil society, convened ...
11 June 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to a Christian community in Karachi
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church of Jerusalem" in Karachi is a Protestant Christian community which includes about 300 families. As Fides learns, community members have been receiving threats because they have to re ...
11 June 2015
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are waiting to be contacted by the kidnappers", says the Bishop of Ekiti after the kidnapping of a priest
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are waiting for the kidnappers of our priest to get in touch with us to tell us their demands in exchange for his release" says His Exc. Mgr. Felix Ajakaye, Bishop of Ekiti. Don Emmanuel Aking ...
11 June 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Former property of a Presbyterian church becomes settlement of Jewish settlers. The Latin Patriarchate: dangerous operation
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - An impressive building complex owned by the Presbyterian Church located in the Palestinian territory was sold and, after several changes of ownership, is preparing to host a community of Jewis ...
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