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22 April 2015
OCEANIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Merieti Riiki, of the Filles de Notre-Dame du Sacré Coeur (FD ...
22 April 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal: heavy fighting between soldiers from three different ethnic groups
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting with the use of heavy weapons between two groups of soldiers of the army of South Sudan with many victims is what is happening today, April 22, in Malakal, the capital of South Sud ...
22 April 2015
AFRICA/SUDAN - Outbreak of measles in Darfur: cases continue to multiply
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The local Ministry of Health has confirmed a sharp increase in cases of measles in Sudan. Currently we are talking about 1,472 people infected. The dead recorded so far are 25, while other 3000 ...
22 April 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - Imams and priests promote the "culture of encounter" preaching together in schools in Minya
Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The collective "mission" of a large group of imam linked to al Azhar – the biggest theological center of Sunni Islam - and Coptic priests begins today, who for a few days will visit together the ...
22 April 2015
ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Video of the massacres of Ethiopian Christians: the jihadist that exposes the obligations of Christians is a Saudi terrorist
Ryad (Agenzia Fides) - The militant of the Islamic State who in the macabre video with the execution of Ethiopian Christians launches threats against "the people of the cross" and recalls the obligations of Christians in ...
21 April 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Consecration of the Bishop of Orizaba: active participation of the indigenous community in Náhuatl language
Orizaba (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in the history of the Diocese of Orizaba (Mexico), during the rite of episcopal ordination of His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Cervantes Merino, which will take place on April 24, the Xo ...
21 April 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peripheral areas left to themselves due to national conflict: tribal clashes reawaken
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was not possible to celebrate the Easter Triduum in Malakal due to clashes between the Shilluk and Dinka tribes" refer to Agenzia Fides missionary sources from the capital of the South Sudan St ...
21 April 2015
EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops in assembly: Mission, emigration and social crisis
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The XCV Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) will be held from April 20 to 24. There will be a special day: Friday 24, the Bishops will go on pilgrimage to Avila, on the o ...
21 April 2015
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Emergency for violence and attacks against minors
Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - Bucaramanga is a city, capital of the department of Santander, in Colombia. From a recent communication of local authorities it seems that there are 45 reported cases of child abuse per day ...
21 April 2015
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – A nun killed in KwaZulu-Natal: a life dedicated to poor children for 60 years
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – An 86-year-old Austrian missionary nun, Sister Stefani Tiefenbacher CPS (Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood), was killed in the night between Saturday 19 and Sunday, April 20 in her ...
21 April 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - The Islamic University of Al Azhar condemns the massacre of jihadist of Christian Ethiopians
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A "heinous crime, committed by the Daesh terrorist group, which goes against any religion, law or human conduct". With these formulas without appeal the University of Al Azhar, highest academic ce ...
21 April 2015
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the preparatory "Christu Jyoti Gurukul" Seminary in Simla-Chandigarh
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 19, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Kurian Emprayil, Jesuit (SJ) as Rector of the preparatory "Chris ...
21 April 2015
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Poverty exacerbates the living conditions of HIV-positive children
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The economic conditions and poverty in the Country are an aggravating factor for the health of HIV-positive children, who often cannot be cured because family members are unable to bring th ...
20 April 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Endeer Gerardo Zapata, of the diocesan clergy of Trujillo as Nationa ...
20 April 2015
ASIA/TURKEY - Advisor of the Turkish prime minister who had spoken of the Armenian Genocide has resigned
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The writer and journalist of Turkish Armenian origin Etyen Mahcupyan, former advisor of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutlogu, resigned a few days after releasing some statements in an interview ...
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