News

• 14 March 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Jean Noël Gossou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Jean Noël Gossou, of the clergy of the diocese of Yopoug ...
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  14 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The "Project Compassion" of Caritas for world water emergency Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The spirit of Caritas is to help marginalized communities and accompany them to become architects of their future. Our 'Project Compassion' has allowed us to achieve important changes over these ...
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  14 March 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Cardinal Tomko celebrates his 95th birthday and 70 years of priesthood in his native land Košice (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrates two significant goals in these days: his 95th birthday, he was born on 11 March 1924 in U ...
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  14 March 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Lent is a propitious moment to build a welcoming community for migrants": appeal by the Archbishop of Johannesburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “Oh city of Johannesburg, what kind of a mother are you? Are you not supposed to be like a mother who gathers all her children? As a hen gathers her chicks under her wings?” (Mt. 24.37) ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops of Tamil Nadu: change the date of the elections, which coincides with Holy Thursday Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - The Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has sought change in the poll date for the southern Indian state, scheduled on April 18. The state’s 39 parliamentary and 18 assembly seats will go to poll on ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish institute of history prepares 25 volumes to refute allegations on "Armenian genocide" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - A committee of experts from the Turkish institute of history sponsored the research work of its members in historical archives and libraries in the United States, Russia, Germany and the United ...
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  12 March 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Apostolic Nuncio visits political prisoners and listens to their concerns and hopes Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Nicaragua, Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, accompanied by Mgr. Andrea Piccioni, secretary of the Nunciature, visited the Women's Penitentiary and the Jorge Navar ...
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  12 March 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Jesuits: a transitional government should prepare free and transparent elections Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The role of the different Venezuelan social and political actors, the position of the Countries and the transnational blocs that affect the crisis and the contribution of the Society of Jesus were ...
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  12 March 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Young Christians and Muslims will celebrate the Marian feast of the Annunciation together Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - About 1600 boys and girls from over 40 countries will take part in the World Ecumenical Youth Meeting, scheduled in Beirut from 22 to 26 March. The ecumenical meeting is organized and sponsored b ...
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  12 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Justice for the outcasts: Christians and Muslims demonstrate New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Christians and Muslims gathered for the great demonstration of national protest announced today, March 12, in New Delhi, to demand an end to discrimination and legitimate rights f ...
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  12 March 2019
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Ethiopian plane crash: among the victims also a missionary, a nun and 4 lay operators of the Catholic Relief Services Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - 157 people were killed in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Sunday, 10 March, which include a priest, a religious sister, and four staff members with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Acc ...
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  12 March 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The churches of Zambia against the suspension of the broadcasting license of Prime Television Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "It is hypocritical to allow the suspension of a broadcasting license of a private media house when government-owned and controlled media outlets have miserably been unprofessional and unethical" ...
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  12 March 2019
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of Don Hamel concludes Rouen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen presided over the final session of the diocesan inquiry into the life and martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel. Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016, when two men sto ...
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  11 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The enemies are hunger and disease: Lenten campaign of Caritas India Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The enemies to be defeated in India are hunger and diseases: with this approach Caritas India, the humanitarian arm of the Indian Bishops' Conference, is focusing its Lenten campaign this year ...
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  11 March 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - International Women's Day: an occasion for interreligious dialogue Mbata Mbenge (Agenzia Fides) - "Unity among the churches is very important and can pass through women, who are pillars of family life, but also of the life of faith", says Mrs. Josephine Pfiti, promoter of the interrelig ...