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• 20 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Security agents release South Sudanese news editor South Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudanese editor who was detained by the country’s national security services on Saturday has been freed. David Ocen, the news editor of the Catholic-owned Bakhita radio, was picked by secu ...
• 20 August 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai: united also with Hezbolllah to block the road to the infiltration of the ISIL Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Bechara Boutros Rai said he was ready to meet soon the leader of Hezbollah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in order to address together the growing concerns about ...
• 20 August 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Ill-gotten wealth from oil bunkering could be used to destabilize", said the Bishop of Umuahia Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Ill-gotten wealth from the theft of the country’s crude oil and its illegal refining could be used to destabilize the country. This is the alarm launched by Bishop Lucius Ugorji, Bishop of Umuah ...
• 19 August 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - A Christian pastor released from prison, in Tibet Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Protestant Pastor Chhedar Bhote Lhomi, 37, was freed from blame and released from prison, he is now free after a bad experience of detention. As Fides learns, the Pastor lives in a remote area ...
• 19 August 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Assist families but without interfering in their private lives", said the Bishop of Matagalpa Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the State should take care of families, but without having control over them" said Mgr. Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua), in a letter sent to Fide ...
• 19 August 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - End of the war and federal solution: the Burmese Bishops' appeal Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate end of the civil war and of the suffering of the population; protection of human rights and civil rights; search for a permanent solution to the conflict through federalism: are the hea ...
• 19 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops' Conference define the closure of Radio Bakhita "unfortunate" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference or SCBC Secretary-General, Fr. Jacob Odwa remarked that the closure of Bakhita Radio: the voice of the church at the service of lives is just "unfortunate". On ...
• 19 August 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – "It is worrying to see Boko Haram trying to conquer territories", said the Archbishop of Lagos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Boko Haram insurgency is becoming even more worrisome that they were trying to “conquer” territories that the military have to try and liberate", said His Exc. Mgr. Alfred Adewale Martins ...
• 19 August 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The church calls on the authorities to change the situation in prisons Santa Rosa de Copán (Agenzia Fides) - "The detainees are in the "suburbs" of society where they suffer from total exclusion, despair and depression", says the National Commission for Prison Pastoral Care of the Episcopa ...
• 19 August 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni thanks the Pope for his prayers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, said he was very moved and thanked Pope Francis for his spontaneous prayer for the "suffering people ...
• 18 August 2014
  VATICAN - Press release of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Fides received the new press release of the Chaldean Patriarchate regarding the visit of the Special Envoy of the Holy Father. PRESS RELEASE of the PATRIARCHATE OF BABYLON OF THE CHALDE ...
• 18 August 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Killed during their missionary work 23 years ago Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - In the month of August the Diocese of Chimbote (Peru) commemorates the martyrdom of 2 Franciscan friars: Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Miguel Tomaszek, in the town of Pariacoto (in the north of the ...
• 18 August 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The first 12 members of the delegation of the victims will participate in Peace Talks which take place in Cuba Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the victims of the Colombian armed conflict will participate directly for the first time in the peace talks in Havana. According to plan, the peace delegations of government an ...
• 18 August 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The main Catholic radio station in the Country has been shut down Juba (Agenzia Fides) – Measures have been taken to detain a radio News Editor, Ochan David Nicholas, who is still in custody, and shut down Radio Bakhita, the main Catholic radio station in South Sudan. The radio, sp ...
• 18 August 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The Archbishop of Bangui to politicians "stop the suffering of the people as soon as possible" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to humbly ask the leaders of the Country to take quick decisions to stop the suffering of the population in Bangui and elsewhere in the Country", said His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapa ...