News
6 December 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - War crimes: "Justice is essential for social cohesion and peace"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I think it can be an advantage to combine the internal justice of Central Africa with that administered by the International Criminal Court", says Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of ...
6 December 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholics: "After the Pope's visit, it is up to us to build peace and justice"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The journey of Pope Francis now leaves a clearer role and responsibility to the Catholic community in Myanmar: to give, in the spirit of the Gospel, a contribution to peace, justice, development ...
6 December 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Church: the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem puts global stability at risk
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The possible transfer of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would have "negative consequences" not only on the ever fragile stability of the Middle East, but also on that of the w ...
5 December 2017
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - After the nightmare of the plague, life resumes
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent days there have been no reports of cases of plague in the capital. The situation has improved": says Sister Giacinta Gobetti, missionary of the minor Carmelites of charity in Ant ...
5 December 2017
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assassination of the missionary Vicente Cañas: executioner condemned
Cuiabá (Agenzia Fides) - The only accused survivor, Ronaldo Antônio Osmar, former civil police delegate, accused of participating in the murder of the Spanish Jesuit missionary Vicente Cañas, in April 1987, was found ...
5 December 2017
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Defeating violence against women: the commitment of Christian communities
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Women in Sri Lanka still face an increasing rate of violence after decades of ethnic conflict and civil war. The Christian community in Sri Lanka is called to a strong commitment to eradicate v ...
5 December 2017
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop Gomes: "We are all involved in asking the Rohingya for forgiveness"
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "By coming to Bangladesh the Pope first of all wanted to show, as spiritual leader, trust in our country and attention towards the Bengali people. We are grateful. The whole country stopped to wel ...
5 December 2017
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Heads of Churches meet "global" leaders: Orthodox Patriarchs meet Putin, Archbishop Warda meets Pence in the USA
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - The contribution of the Russian military allowed the Syrian army to "free" even the areas of Syria most dear to Christians "from terrorists". And the collaboration between the Patriarchate of Mos ...
5 December 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic politicians of Latin America: "We ask for a more fraternal civilization"
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The scourge of corruption is the most damaging for our peoples of Latin America, public corruption erodes societies, injustice and the lack of unity increase in industrialized countries, the gl ...
5 December 2017
OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Bishop of Christchurch
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. Paul Martin, M.S., bursar general of the Marist Fathers in Rome, as Bishop of the diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand.
The new Bishop was bo ...
4 December 2017
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Gualberti: "The defense of democratic values loses moral force if it is not pursued with peaceful means"
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the reasons for the protests and the defense of democratic values, institutions and the expressed will of the people are right, they lose their moral strength when they are not pursu ...
4 December 2017
VATICAN - Pope Francis: the proclamation of the Gospel is not "proselytism". Only the Holy Spirit "attracts" and converts hearts
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel "is not making proselytism". The Church grows "for attraction". And to exercise the attraction that can change and convert hearts are not our "apologetic explanations ...
4 December 2017
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Fr. Rozario, released after the seizure, he will remain for a period in the Bishop's residence
Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. William Walter Rozario, the Bangladeshi priest of the diocese of Rajshahi who disappeared on Monday and then found by the police in Syleth, in the north-east of the country, was released by ...
4 December 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - A trace of mercy in a Buddhist country: Francis’ legacy
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis left an evangelical trace of compassion and mercy in a majority Buddhist country. The Burmese population clearly perceived his message of peace and reconciliation: this is what remai ...
4 December 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Resignation of the Bishop of Bouar, Central African Republic, and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - on December 2, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bouar, Central African Republic, presented by H.E. Msgr. Armando Umberto Gianni, O.F.M. ...
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