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• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The importance of "true hospitality" towards refugees Juba (Agenzia Fides) - During a recent visit to the region of South Sudan, still in conflict, His Exc. Mgr. Daniel Adwok, Auxiliary Bishop of Khartoum, stressed the importance of education and hospitality towards refugee ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Assembly of Catholic Bishops discusses support for Christian schools Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 and 14 January, the periodic meeting of Catholic Bishops in Egypt took place in the district of Maadi. The meeting was held under the presidency of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaa ...
• 16 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Necessity to re-evangelize families: the Pope encourages them to be "living school of the Gospel" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's message encourages, inspires and challenges families in the Philippines to be 'home and school' of the Gospel". This is what Rene Bullecer, lay Catholic, national director of the "Hum ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Malnutrition, trauma, violence: urgent medical assistance to the survivors of the attack committed by Boko Haram Baga (Agenzia Fides) - In the wake of a major attack carried out by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria, a team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is assisting survivors who ha ...
• 16 January 2015
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Thousands of displaced and deaths because of torrential rains Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people have been displaced and many have died as torrential rain continues in Mozambique. This is what is reported in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by Radio Mozambique. Some peop ...
• 16 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Director of a Christian magazine: "With the Pope we say no to the vilification of Islam" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Freedom of press is sacred, but it cannot be used to offend, ridicule or insult religion, especially the Islamic religion, which is very sensitive to the issue of blasphemy. We found a source of ...
• 16 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO – The Bishops of Guerrero appreciate the good will of the army Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the four dioceses of the area of Guerrero have positively judged the army's decision to give free access to military facilities to families looking for the 42 students who disapp ...
• 15 January 2015
  NORTHERN EUROPE - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 12, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed deacon rev. Kaare Nielsen, of the diocesan clergy of Kobenhavn (Denma ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Over 3000 child beggars on the streets of big cities Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Near the traffic lights of the Las Colinas colony in Tegucigalpa children continuously beg. The many young children between 2 and 15 years of age are forced by adults to this kind of life an ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA - New web portal of CELAM, to reach the "suburbs" of the continent Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "A portal of portals", this is how the new web page can be described that was opened recently by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) and is promoted by all the Bishops' Conferences of L ...
• 15 January 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Twenty years with Blessed Peter ToRot, an example for every Christian Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "Twenty years ago, in January 1995, Peter ToRot, catechist and martyr was beatified in Port Moresby. This historic event certainly gave a new dimension of enthusiasm for the life and the presenc ...
• 15 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Director of the PMS: "The Pope in the Philippines shows us mercy towards the last" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It will be a journey of compassion, even the official theme chosen, 'Mercy and compassion', explains it. The Pope is in the Philippines and will give a testimony of closeness and compassion towa ...
• 15 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the cartoons on Muhammad are offensive Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The cartoons on Muhammad published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are "offensive" and any insult must be rejected "at all levels". This is how Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II ...
• 15 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Divine Word Missionaries from Asia, Africa and Oceania work in Argentina Oberá (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 15, the feast of Saint Arnold Janssen, founder of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), the Bishop of the diocese of Oberá (Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Damián Santiago Bitar, recal ...
• 15 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER – Project of a social-medical centre in Dosso, for the welfare of women and children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - In an attempt to address the situation of particular urgency and improve health coverage in the Region, the Movement for the Struggle Against World Hunger and the Diocese of Lodi (Italy) have init ...