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13 May 2019
ASIA/LEBANON - National mourning for the death of Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon mourns the death of Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Patriarch Emeritus of Antioch of the Maronites, who died on Sunday 12 May at the age of 99. The Lebanese government has proclaimed tw ...
10 May 2019
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Holy masses resume and Catholic schools reopen
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic schools in Sri Lanka will reopen on May 14, after the closure established for security reasons following the Easter attacks that killed 258 people and injuring about 500 people. This wa ...
10 May 2019
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Nuncio: "This extreme violence of eliminating the adversary cannot continue"
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "We must take the theme of peace seriously, because it is not optional. Colombia cannot continue in this extreme violence of the elimination of the adversary and of those who think differently, ...
10 May 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The president of CIMI: "the Amazon is a land disputed on several fronts"
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "Probably, the original peoples of the Amazon have never been as threatened in their territories as they are now; the Amazon is a land disputed on several fronts": says the President of the In ...
10 May 2019
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - In the face of sufferings, a Church built on rock that is Christ
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Ivory Coast is experiencing a period of deep pain. The news of the tragic car accident involving Mgr. Ante Jozic, Apostolic Nuncio of the country while he was in Croat ...
10 May 2019
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Church launches a professional center; "We want to train the citizens of tomorrow", says Cardinal Nzapalainga
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church wants to train young people and citizens of tomorrow, able to actively participate in the construction and development of the Country", said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalain ...
10 May 2019
ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas Jordan will offer 10,000 meals to Muslims during Ramadan
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Ramadan is Different in Generous Jordan". This is the title of the campaign launched by Caritas Jordan for the holy month of Ramadan in 2019. The campaign, which will continue during the month, e ...
10 May 2019
AFRICA - ACI-Africa agency is born, Archbishop Dal Toso: "A sign of hope for the continent"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In these pasts months of my service at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, in particular as President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, I have been very blessed and cons ...
9 May 2019
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Message of the Bishops to the people of God: "Christ is alive and wants you to be alive!"
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord Jesus Christ, in his apparition to the disciples, as the evangelist John tells us, encourages them to cast their nets again, despite the uselessness of their work. The Risen One inv ...
9 May 2019
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Builders of bridges, peacemakers: Christians participate in the life of the nation
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Malaysia contributes to the common good of the nation": says to Agenzia Fides Archbishop Julian Leow, at the head of the diocese of Kuala Lumpur, and newly elected President ...
9 May 2019
AMERICA/PERU - Development and reconstruction, to improve the quality of life
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the catastrophe caused by the environmental phenomenon "El Niño" (see Fides, 23/05/2017), with rains, floods and landslides that caused thousands of victims, the small agricultural ...
9 May 2019
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church questions the mission of the baptized in the contemporary world
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 500 participants from all over Australia will take part in the "Mission: one heart, many voices" conference scheduled in Sydney from 13 to 15 May, in view of the extraordinary Missi ...
9 May 2019
AFRICA/KENYA - "Let us proclaim that the Lord has risen: let us not be intimidated by reports of brutal violence"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Rampant killings, corruption and abortions reported regularly on news saying they are causing pain families, friends and society. Today the news we read or watch speaks mainly of the atrocious ...
9 May 2019
EUROPE/ITALY - The memory of Father Maccalli is constant among the confreres gathered at the General Chapter
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Thought and prayer for our father Luigi Maccalli, kidnapped eight months ago in Niger, is present in a special way among us". This is what Fr. Ceferino Cainelli, Argentine priest of the Society of ...
9 May 2019
ASIA/LEBANON - Aoun receives delegates and partners of the Council of Churches of the Middle East
Beirut (Lebanon) - Lebanon has a specific vocation in fostering dialogue between civilizations and in the encounter between cultures, for the historical event that has made it more than just a crossroads between East and ...
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