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17 June 2019
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: violence has reached terrifying levels, people are afraid to denounce
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - For almost two years he has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura in Colombia, and he has already had to deal with violent groups that have sown terror in the area.
Archbishop Rub ...
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14 June 2019
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops ask the authorities to intervene: Two young people kidnapped and killed in a few days
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent times we have experienced situations of great violence that have been a real ordeal for citizens and for many families in different parts of the country": says the Bishops’ Conf ...
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14 June 2019
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas launches sustainable agriculture project: it will provide livelihood and professional training
Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The construction of the two greenhouses in Almaty and Talgar has been completed. This means that we are about to start the operational phase of the sustainable agriculture project. The first asp ...
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14 June 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - Boko Haram threaten Christians in Diffa. "Real news, but there is no mass flight of the faithful"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians have been threatened but there is no mass flight of the faithful" says Mgr. Anthony Coudjofio, Vicar General of Niamey to Agenzia Fides, to whom we asked if it is true that the Christ ...
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14 June 2019
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Sri Lankan government establishes a Council for reconciliation between religions
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will establish a special "Council for reconciliation between religions", with the aim of building interreligious coexistence in society and avoid ...
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14 June 2019
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Political tensions and identity crises in society: the prophetic role of the Church
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The turbulent declarations of Ivorian politicians continue to feed serious threats to the political stability of our country, especially in view of the presidential elections of 2020", says Fat ...
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14 June 2019
ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - The Minister of tolerance presides over the official opening of the Christian archaeological site of Sir Bani Yas
Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The oldest Christian archaeological site of the island of Sir Bani Yas, 200 km west of the city of Abu Dhabi, was opened on Thursday, June 13 following extensive improvements to the site that ...
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14 June 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - President of the Rural Workers Union assassinated: violence and murders in the Amazon increase
Parà (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazon ecclesiastical network (REPAM) of Brazil repudiates the violent action and the attack that killed leader, Carlos Cabral Pereira, president of the Union of Rural Workers (STR the acr ...
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13 June 2019
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishop in Flores: "The boom in vocations arises from faith lived in the family"
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Our local Church today is a missionary Church. We have over 500 priests and religious sent as missionaries to Indonesia and the world. We are a Church blessed by the Lord with many vocations to ...
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13 June 2019
EUROPE/ITALY - Father Gigi Maccalli still prisoner: "Stubborn witness of the Gospel among the poorest"
Feriole (Agenzia Fides) - "Every time I read on the turret of our house of the Society for African Missions (SMA) in Genoa or in front of our house in Feriole 'Release Father Gigi' I ask myself and our community to ask t ...
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13 June 2019
AFRICA/MALI - President and Cardinal Zerbo bring their solidarity to the victims of Sobame Da massacre
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jean Zerbo Archbishop of Bamako and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta are in the village of Sobame Da this morning, in the Mopti region in central Mali, where in the night between 9 and ...
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13 June 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missiology seminar on the subject of the Extraordinary Missionary Month
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – About forty missiologists from all over Brazil are participating in the National Missiology Seminar, from 10 to 14 June, at the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), in Brasilia. The theme of the ...
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13 June 2019
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops to the government: we continue solidarity towards the Venezuelan brothers, 94% live in extreme poverty
Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, President of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference (CEP) and President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), in a letter addressed to the President of the ...
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13 June 2019
ASIA/ISRAEL - Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: Ateret Cohanim's real estate operations in the Old City threaten coexistence among monotheistic faiths
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches and ecclesial communities present in Jerusalem express "great surprise" at the speed with which the Supreme Court of Israel expressed itself in favor of the Jewish Ateret ...
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13 June 2019
VATICAN - The first African American Catholic priest and a PIME missionary among the new venerables
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - American priest Agostino Tolton (1854-1897), the first African American Catholic priest, and the lay religious of PIME Felice Tantardini (1898-1991), a missionary in Myanmar, are among the ...
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