News

• 16 December 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 19, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Shenouda Shafik Andrawes Khalil, of the clergy of the eparchy of ...
• 16 December 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - We hope for a peaceful Christmas after two years of Civil War Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Two years after the outbreak of the civil war we continue to hope for peace, and perhaps this Christmas will be different from the last two, where we experienced suffering and fear", says a missi ...
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  16 December 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal: "Mercy is a political act par excellence" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – "Children of the world dream of a wonderful celebration with gifts, lights, decorated trees and crèches". However, and I repeat the same words of Pope Francis, everything is distorted "beca ...
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  16 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - As a sign of "solidarity with Christians", even December 24 will be a public holiday in Kirkuk Kirkuk (Fidess Agency) - This year, the birth of the Lord for the Churches that follow the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, a public holiday for Muslims. This is why, as a sign of solidarity of the institutions and ...
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  15 December 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The religious: "Present the face of God's mercy" Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - "To fully live one's vocation in order to present the face of God's mercy to the world": this is the commitment of the men and women religious in Indonesia, at the conclusion of the Year of cons ...
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  15 December 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil authorities: "Get rid of the Christians to cleanse Islamabad" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The recent declaration of "Capital Development Authority" (CDA) in Islamabad, the Authority that represents the mayor and the city government in the urban development of the capital of Pakis ...
• 15 December 2015
  AFRICA/DRC CONGO - The Bishops: "The Church is neutral", the participation at the meeting on African elections was called off Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CENCO) withdrew its representative, Don Leonard Santedi (Secretary General of CENCO), from the International Conference on the ele ...
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  15 December 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Safe Birth after Ebola in a Country with the highest maternal mortality rate in the world Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone is the country with the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. About one mother out of 100 cannot survive the birth of her child. In this dramatic scenery Ebola has caused n ...
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  15 December 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - No child should be left alone Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Among its various initiatives, the Foundation Neida Perez Morillo has promoted Ayúdanos a Ayudar with the objective of assisting children and street youth. Currently in Venezuela, the Foundatio ...
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  15 December 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops' appeal: "Messengers of hope and prophetic voices against the senseless violence" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "We are called to be messengers of hope and prophetic voices against senseless violence, a violence that can never be justified by invoking the name of God": is the statement of Archbishop Jo ...
• 15 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Are there connections between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and Boko Haram? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In Nigeria we wonder why the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN tried to kill the army Chief of Staff, General Yusuf Buratai, under whose guidance our military is inflicting hard defeats to Boko Ha ...
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  15 December 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Two dioceses divided by the border, but only one community will welcome Pope Francis Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - The news of Pope Francis' apostolic visit in Mexico has caused great joy in the country and not only: even if Juarez is one of the cities that will host the Pope Francis' visit, also for the Bish ...
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  15 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The jihadist of the Islamic State behead three well-known imams in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The self-styled Islamic State of jihadists (Daesh) beheaded three well-known Sunni imams in Mosul in the public square accused of not obeying orders that forced them to recruit young people for th ...
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  15 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Posters on walls in Baghdad to ask Christian women to wear the veil Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There are posters on the walls of Baghdad, near the churches and in neighborhoods where there are still Christian communities asking women to wear the veil. The message is addressed directly t ...
• 14 December 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 150 and 200 people who were found dead in what appears to be extrajudicial killings in Bujumbura and in the "Rural Bujumbura", the suburban area of the capital of Burundi. Th ...