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• 30 May 2014
  VATICAN – A hundred years after the Evangelization of Bamenda: deepen your faith and renew your missionary commitment urges Cardinal Filoni Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) – Thursday 29 May, solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, presided a solemn Mass for the clo ...
• 30 May 2014
  VATICAN – A Church which is dynamic, lively and growing, despite difficulties: Cardinal Filoni meets the Bishops and priests of Cameroon Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) – The dynamism, the vitality, commitment and growth of the Church in Cameroon, “is the result of excellent missionary work of the part of numerous men and women missionaries of the past to who ...
• 30 May 2014
  AMERICA/CHILE – Local Catholic Church committed to educational reform nation wide Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Chile looks with hope towards the reform of the country’s education system, the Bishops say this reform is very necessary, as interest and desire to cooperate for its ...
• 30 May 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR – Blessed father Vergara and Blessed Isidoro will give “impulse to vocations and to mission” Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) – “We rejoice for the beatification of PIME missionary Fr Vergara and the lay catechist Isidoro. We are proud of them both. It was Fr Mario Vergara who evangelised us and we see it as a blessin ...
• 30 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sisi triumphs in presidential elections; Copt Catholic Bishop of Guizeh contests voices on low turnout Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egypt’s Presidential elections decreed the triumph - expected for some time - of former general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to unconfirmed results issued by electoral offices, al-Sisi w ...
• 28 May 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in Nkolbisson-Yaoundé: "take to heart the ideal of the priest that the Church needs today and will need tomorrow" Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - "The seminar is a path that allows young people who are called to get closer to Jesus and to turn into him. This journey, although long, is essential for the future priest, so that he can person ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - Economic support for Haitian mothers who live in extreme poverty Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – The social program Ti Manman Cheri is an initiative which provides economic support to women living in extreme poverty with one or more children and is a real success for the local admi ...
• 28 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and civil authorities together for the safety of citizens Santa Rosa ( Agenzia Fides) - "It is always good to find other people who are at the service of the community, especially knowing that we work for the same purpose, for the same people. I am convinced that dialogue is th ...
• 28 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- Boko Haram: For Cardinal Onaiyekan "It is not enough to condemn violence alone, but it is also necessary to condemn intollerant positions" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Boko Haram problem has military, economic and political aspects, but also a religious dimension that cannot be ignored. This is the core of the message of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’a ...
• 28 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Hindu fundamentalists: request to ban the Muslim call to prayer in India Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - In a seemingly provocative act, tended to disturb the harmony between different religious communities in India, the Hindu group "Rashtriya Hindu Andolan", based in Mangalore, has requested tha ...
• 27 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case disappears from the list of hearings, the possibility of an appeal diminishes Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, will not take place today, 27th May, and no one knows if and when it will be scheduled again. Th ...
• 27 May 2014
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church: it is urgent to review the policy of detention concerning refugees on Manus Island Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Church asks the government to reconsider its policy of detention and resettlement of refugees on Manus Island, an island where there is the biggest detention center for refugees. T ...
• 27 May 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Isolated due to the rain and without the aid of the authorities, "but we are also Paraguayans", cries the Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - The isolation and abandonment in which state authorities have long since left the population of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguay, Paraguay, was strongly denounced by the Apostolic Vicar, ...
• 27 May 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - 100 years of evangelization in Bamenda: "We aim at the inculturation of faith and human promotion", says the Archbishop Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - "The Dehonians German fathers arrived in Cameroon in 1912 to evangelize this area of Cameroon" explains to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, in the west of ...
• 27 May 2014
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishop of Atakpamé mediator in the political dialogue Lome (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic Bishop has been appointed to mediate between the parties in Togo. We are talking about His Exc. Mgr. Nicodème Anani Barrigah_Bénissan, Bishop of Atakpamé, who will have to facilitate ...