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• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Missionary Father Bachs has died, defender of the right to education of young people in need Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Priest, teacher and tireless defender of the right to education of children and young people in need. 80-year-old Father Antonio Bachs SJ, one of the founders of the movement "Fe y Alegría" in Per ...
• 19 January 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Emergency Ebola: light at the end of the tunnel Pujehun (Agenzia Fides) - Sierra Leone has been hit hardest by the epidemic Ebola, followed by Liberia and Guinea. Since the epidemic started the world has seen over 21,000 people infected and over 8,400 deaths, accordin ...
• 19 January 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation, on a pastoral visit in Vietnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples arrives in Vietnam today for a pastoral visit. After accompanying the Holy Father in his apostolic vi ...
• 19 January 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops' Pastoral Plan: "Go and tell everyone" Madang (Agenzia Fides) - "Go and tell everyone": this is the theme of the five-year pastoral plan launched by the Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. As reported in a note sent to Fides by F ...
• 19 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - For Armenians: Erdogan's invitation to President Sarkysian for the centenary of the battle of Gallipoli is a provocation Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish leader has taken the unprecedented diplomatic step of extending an invitation to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to ceremonies marking the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli in ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Zacatecas: The closure of mines is everyone’s problem Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - The social situation in the region of Zacatecas is very tense due to the layoff of about 400 workers in the mines of a large Canadian company in Peñasquito. According to an official report of ...
• 19 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: also poverty destabilizes the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Even poverty and deprivation "are destabilizing" the Middle East, because "there cannot be peace where there is underdevelopment". With these words, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai pointed ...
• 19 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Year of the poor" and new evangelization: Bishops in assembly after the Pope's visit Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Philippines gathered in Manila for the Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference. As Fides learns, the meeting will last until January 22 and the new evangelization and the " ...
• 19 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - New cabinet of Haiti to be sworn in today Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The ministers of the new government of Haiti should swear in today, Monday, January 19, at 4 pm (local time), as announced by President Michel Martelly last night. The President had promi ...
• 17 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Conversions and forced marriages legitimized by the High Court Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Protest and disappointment among the Hindu and Christian religious minorities after a judgment of the High Court of Sindh province, in the south of Pakistan: the court has effectively legitimize ...
• 17 January 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mukasa Zuza dies in a car accident Mzuzu (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Joseph Mukasa Zuza (59 years old), bishop of the Diocese of Mzuzu (Malawi) and President of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi, tragically died in a car accident on January 15th. The communi ...
• 17 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must stop violent groups", said Bishop Gallardo Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Veracruz, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Felipe Gallardo Martin del Campo, S.D.B. said that the authorities have the "terror" of receiving accusations by the National Human Rig ...
• 17 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - With Patriarch Mathias’ visit, evidence of "ecclesial mediation" on the controversial Ethiopian dam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The visit to Egypt by Abuna Mathias I, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia ended on 16 January. In the six-day stay in Egypt, the Primate of the Church of Ethiopia - who had been invited ...
• 17 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Pope shows deep compassion for the victims of the Typhoon Palo (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a very touching moment, a moving celebration. Pope Francis showed deep compassion with the victims of the typhoon, during the Holy Mass celebrated, in adverse weather conditions, at Tacloba ...
• 16 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The New Testament in Tsotsil language in the pipeline San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Biblical Pastoral Care of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM), led by Mgr. Florencio Armando Colin, went to the diocese of San Cristobal de Las Cas ...