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22 October 2018
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and freedom": the requests of the population resound in the Cathedral of Managua
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - For three weeks now, the military forces of the government have tightened controls on the protest marches of the population, preventing any kind of public demonstration in the streets of the cap ...
22 October 2018
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Historic event for the diocese of Auki: the first native bishop of the Solomon Islands
Auki (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Peter Houhou is the first native Solomon Islander to be appointed as Bishop in the Solomon Islands. As Agenzia Fides learns, the diocese of Auki, Malaita province, has in fact been the protago ...
22 October 2018
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It is our duty to give young people a perspective of life" says Cardinal Nzapalainga
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Youth is sick" said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on the margin of the XV Ordinary General Assemb ...
20 October 2018
VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2018
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 92nd anniversary on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
20 October 2018
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - "The beauty of being small" in the Kazakh Church
Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "When I think about the Kazakh Catholics, I am always amazed at the greatness of their faith. They do not have ancient traditions and Catholic roots, but I see a profound devotion to the Church, ...
20 October 2018
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - World Mission Day: the experience of a missionary who visits prisoners
Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Every week Alex Goffinet, a French white father who has been on a mission in Africa since 1962, visits the prison in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He listens to prisoners, gives t ...
20 October 2018
VATICAN - Share the Journey: fight fear by walking with migrants and refugees
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila and President of Caritas Internationalis, invites communities of citizens all over the world to fight hatred and fear with a million-year m ...
20 October 2018
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishop visits the displaced persons of Palu: "I am here to give comfort"
Manado (Agenzia Fides) - "I am here to give comfort and encourage the population that suffers": said the Bishop of Manado, Mgr. Benedictus Estephanus Rolly Untu, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, addressing the di ...
20 October 2018
ASIA/TURKEY: Erdogan calls for autonomy for the Gagauzi people, the Christian Turks of Moldova
Komrat (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his recent visit to Moldova, reached an agreement with Moldavian President Igor Dodon, who fully implemented the status of political-administrative ...
20 October 2018
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Honduran march to the USA continues. Trump: the army will close the borders
San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 thousand Hondurans arrived yesterday, 19 October, on the border with Mexico from Honduras. The Mexican government had announced, like those of El Salvador and Guatema ...
19 October 2018
VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies: support for the proclamation of the Gospel and for the human and cultural growth of peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies were born of young hearts as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of al ...
19 October 2018
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The hundreds of miners affected by pneumoconiosis are an indictment of human greed"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "For decades, coal mining companies allowed their workers to be exposed to unsafe levels of coal dust. The mines need to take both ethical and legal responsibility for the sick miners", sa ...
19 October 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Church collapses during the prayer of the rosary; at least two dead and one missing
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people died in the collapse of the church of Sainte Marceline de Minkan in Odza, a suburb of the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, which occurred on the evening of 17 October. The col ...
18 October 2018
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission supports the construction of a professional training center for women in Myanmar
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God because the construction of the training center for girls continues and is about to end". We hope that we can soon start decorating the interior spaces. We also thank you for the pr ...
18 October 2018
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Once again the Beit Jamal Catholic cemetery desecrated
Beit Shemesh (Agenzia Fides) - 28 graves of the cemetery attached to the Salesian convent of Beit Jamal, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, has one again been desecrated by unknown persons. The discovery of the intim ...
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