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23 May 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops thank the government for helping Haitians who live in the United States
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Commission for Migrations of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Mgr. Joe Steve Vásquez, Bishop of Austin, Texas, expressed his appreciation to the Secretary ...
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23 May 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 81 children have died of malnutrition since the beginning of the year
La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - The National Institute of Health (INS) has recently announced the death toll for malnutrition since the beginning of the year. We are talking about 81 children under 5 years of age. In additi ...
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23 May 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops denounce: "1 in 5 children have been sexually abused"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Each crime against a woman and child causes the delicate fabric of our society to unravel that much more" denounces His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town and President of ...
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23 May 2017
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Bishop represents Korea to celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations with the Holy See
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Korea and the Holy See celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2017: in particular, the commemoration of the sending of the first permanent Apostolic Delegat ...
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23 May 2017
AMERICA/PERU - Hundreds of thousands of casualties caused by El Niño costero
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general toll of the latest floods and landslides in Peru has resulted in 145 deaths, 18 missing, 438 injured, over 235,000 casualties and more than a million people affected. The figures date b ...
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23 May 2017
ASIA/INDIA - The Catholic community committed to fighting the spread of tuberculosis
Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Medical Association of India (CHAI) is leading a campaign to tackle cases of tuberculosis, in collaboration with government agencies and other civil society organizations: this is ...
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22 May 2017
VATICAN - Consistory for 5 New Cardinals, "be joyous announcers of the Gospel throughout the world"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Regina Coeli Marian prayer on Sunday 21 May, the Holy Father Francis announced a Consistory on 28 June for the creation of 5 new Cardinals. Two of them, Archbishop of Bama ...
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22 May 2017
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Evinayong: "Be good builders of this new Church"
Evinayong (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, spent the day, Sunday 21 May in the new diocese of Evinayong, created on 1 April (see Fides 1/4/201 ...
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22 May 2017
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Bishops’s message: "Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance"
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the worsening of the Country's conditions in various areas, the Bishops' Conference of Madagascar has recently published a message to all the baptized and people of good will, re ...
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22 May 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Day for Peace" celebrated, Cardinal Urosa asks: "Enough violence!"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On May 21, after having celebrated the Day of Peace for Venezuela, promoted by the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV), in Chiquinquirá church, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Carac ...
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22 May 2017
ASIA/THAILAND - Teachers and pupils in the south of the country targeted by rebels
Pattani (Agenzia Fides) - Every day, army jeeps escort Buddhist teachers to schools in the south of the Country, whose area is guarded by paramilitary groups and armed volunteers while children study and play. This tensi ...
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22 May 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Buenaventura needs structural solutions": Bishop Epalza for dialogue with the government
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "Buenaventura can no longer handle the events of the moment, it needs structural solutions to structural problems. No cotton to buffer the wound, we need to intervene", said Mgr. Héctor Ep ...
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22 May 2017
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni meets the Bishops of Equatorial Guinea, "pastors, fathers and brothers"
Mongomo (Agenzia Fides) - The morning, May 22 was dedicated to the Bishops of Equatorial Guinea: the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, met them in Mongomo, and there ...
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22 May 2017
AFRICA/MALI - "Mgr. Zerbo was pleasantly surprised of the appointment to Cardinal"
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Archbishop was pleasantly surprised by the news. He did not expect the appoinment to Cardinal at all", said Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Mali, referrin ...
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22 May 2017
ASIA/NEPAL - In the delicate transition phase, the Church is committed to peace, stability, secularism of the state
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Peace, stability, freedom, human rights, secularism of the state; but also committment in social service and education: these are the themes on which the Catholic Church in Nepal "will continu ...
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