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29 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-terrorism Committee: no religious minority representatives
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities are targeted by terrorist groups, but there is not even a member belonging to minority religious communities (Christian or Hindu) in the Committee formed by the Prime Mini ...
29 December 2014
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an ad ...
29 December 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Security measures strengthened for the Coptic Christmas celebrations
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A special plan to ensure security for the upcoming Christmas celebrations for Coptic Christians was developed in detail during a meeting of the heads of the police and security apparatus, convened ...
29 December 2014
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The IDPs in Maiduguri celebrate Christmas among hope and fears of suicide bombs
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri has been under siege for quite some time now with IDPs fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. This is what was experienced in Maiduguri, capital city of Borno State, ...
29 December 2014
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential election campaign, while the Catholic Church is preparing itself for the Pope's visit
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to reform the presidency and introduce a new constitution if he is re-elected for a third term in the presidential election to be held o ...
29 December 2014
ASIA/IRAN - Iranian aid convoys for Iraqi Christians ready to leave
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian aid convoys await the entry permit from the government in Baghdad to enter Iraqi territory and to be distributed among the Christian communities that have suffered ethnic-religious cleans ...
29 December 2014
AFRICA/MALAWI - "A sad and uncertain Christmas", says a missionary
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A sad Christmas is what was celebrated in Malawi, reports to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary who for decades has been engaged in the African country.
"What I want ...
23 December 2014
EUROPE/BELGIUM - National Director of the Pontifical Mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 14, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Michel Coppin, SDS (Society of the Divine Savior) as National Dir ...
23 December 2014
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Resignation of the Archbishop of Dakar and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Dakar (Senegal) by His Eminence Cardinal Théodore-Adrien Sarr, in accordance ...
23 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the Diocese of Kuzhithurai and appointment of the first Bishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 22, 2014 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Kuzhithurai (India) with territory taken from the diocese of Kottar, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Madu ...
23 December 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - Accomplice of a gang specialized in the kidnapping of Coptics arrested
Sohag (Agenzia Fides) - Mina Zaghloul Hanna comes from a Coptic Christian family and was arrested in recent days by the police in Sohag because considered an accomplice of a gang specialized in kidnapping wealthy Copts o ...
23 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - At Christmas, the "Day of good governance": Christians approve
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has proclaimed December 25 "Day of good governance": it will be celebrated at a national level as a time when institutions, citizens, associations and believers of all re ...
23 December 2014
AFRICA/KENYA - State and Church work together to help the people of Lake Turkana
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have entered into a memorandum of understanding on service delivery on provision of basic amenities such as health services and water in the county", said His Exc. Mgr. Dominic Kimengich, Bi ...
23 December 2014
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and government for the common good and peace of the country
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On December 22, the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina (CEA) paid a visit to the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (see Fides 17/12/2014). The ...
23 December 2014
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America where to exercise the priestly ministry
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Over the last 24 years, 47 attacks against members of the Catholic Church have been committed, of whom 45 are minor offenses and 2 correspond to priests who have disappeared. These data indi ...
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