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19 December 2018
ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Parliament rejects the appointment of Christian Hana Emmanuel as minister for refugees and migrants
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of Iraq, called to express itself on the appointment of three ministers chosen by Premier Adel Abdul Mahdi to complete his cabinet of government, rejected the candid ...
19 December 2018
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops' appeal for Christmas: "Let's find refugees a home"
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Enough is enough. It is time to find these people a home and to definitively end the intolerable situation": says the Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, President of the Australian B ...
18 December 2018
ASIA/INDONESIA - The diocese of Amboina is committed to interreligious dialogue in the Moluccas
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Nurturing and promoting inter-religious dialogue is the way to build social harmony and heal the wounds of war: says to Agenzia Fides Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, at the head of the diocese of ...
18 December 2018
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission: One heart Many voices,
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission: Mission: One heart Many voices" is the title of the missionary conference to be held in Sydney from 13 to 15 May 2019, organized by "Catholic Mission", the National Directorate of the P ...
18 December 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - Security in Guerrero cannot be entrusted to armed civilians, it is urgent to create a "national police"
Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The security in the state of Guerrero cannot be left "in the hands of armed civilians", it is necessary to create a national police that is militarized, to ensure the safety of citizens: the Ar ...
18 December 2018
ASIA/SYRIA - From pain to hope. The Christmas of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa
Nebek (Agenzia Fides) - Pain (alam) and hope (amal) are two words composed in Arabic "from identical letters but with a completely different meaning: two words however closely linked by a bond that manifests itself in a ...
18 December 2018
AMERICA/ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Saint John's Basseterre
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Robert A. Llanos, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain and Apostolic Administrator of Saint John's Basseterre as Bishop of Saint John' ...
18 December 2018
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Five priests killed in 2018, "but Central African priests do not run away because they are not mercenaries"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Central Africa seems to have become entangled in an inextricable tangle of foreign interference, non-fulfillment of the international community and inability of the local government" writes to A ...
18 December 2018
ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary: "At Christmas the 'low profile' of Jesus, beyond the power of numbers"
Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2003, a minister from Thailand bought a 100 thousand euro car. In reality the car was worth 10 thousand but had the plate 'NG 9999'. Anyone here would pay out stratospheric figures for a tel ...
17 December 2018
ASIA/INDIA - Acts of vandalism in a Catholic church in Assam: alarm for Christmas
Dibrugarh (Agenzia Fides) - "The polarization caused between religious communities is evident. First of all the objectives were foreigners, then Muslims, now Christians. In Uttar Pradesh, in Assam, in northern India, the ...
17 December 2018
AFRICA/EGYPT - The government of al-Sisi renovates and regulates over 500 churches
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the inauguration of the national social construction plan in recent days President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi renewed his commitment regarding the renovation of churches destroyed by ...
17 December 2018
EUROPE/SPAIN - The preparation of the Extraordinary Missionary Month begins
Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The second edition of the missionary formation seminar «The joy of the Gospel» has begun, promoted by the diocesan direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, which prepares p ...
17 December 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Fears are being accentuated over the vote of the 23rd December
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The elections of December 23rd in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are at risk, where on December 13th, 8,000 electronic voting machines were destroyed following the fire that broke out in ...
17 December 2018
AFRICA/NIGER - Father Gigi Maccalli's Christmas: his mission in Bomoanga has closed, but hope does not die
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Three months have gone by since the kidnapping of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions, SMA (see Fides 18/9/2018). There is no news on the place where he is he ...
15 December 2018
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne: “our mission is to minister to Australians who never come to church
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Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - “One of the main and most urgent challenges we face in Australia, and it is an urgent mission, is to reach those who claim to be Catholic but do not come to Church ”. Fides was talki ...
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