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20 April 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Three dead and millions of protesters; For the Bishops: "civil and peaceful protest is not a crime, it is a right!"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Civil and peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a right! Its control cannot be an excessive repression", says the statement of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela published yesterday. Numerou ...
20 April 2017
AMERICA/PERU - Qali Warma: breakfast and lunch for pupils in the poorest area of the Apurimac
Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - There are altogether 1,334 public school institutions that belong to the extreme poverty areas of the Peruvian region of the Apurímac which receive food from the Qali Warma National School of F ...
20 April 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar University rejects allegations of extremism: Islam also defends churches
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Al Azhar University, the most prestigious theological and academic center of Sunni Islam, strongly rejects the criticisms and attacks recently received by Egyptian politicians and intellectuals ...
20 April 2017
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "The judicial elections must not be politically manipulated"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has asked through a brief message of its Secretary, Fr. José Fuentes, addressed to the civil community and the Bolivian government that the judicial electi ...
20 April 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The project of the "Pope Francis" village to remember his visit in 2015
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A village called Pope Francis as a meeting place for the various religious communities of the Central African Republic. This is the project that is being studied by the Vatican delegation of expe ...
20 April 2017
AFRICA/UGANDA - Stop hunting Kony: Ugandan militants end the mission in Central Africa against the LRA Leader
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Ugandan army has put an end to the capture of Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a guerrilla movement originally from north Uganda that has for years been raging in par ...
20 April 2017
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Towards the first humanitarian corridor from Africa
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A joint operational mission of Caritas Italiana and Sant'Egidio Community is being held in Addis Ababa these days to open the first humanitarian corridor from Africa, according to the protoc ...
20 April 2017
ASIA/SYRIA - Assyrian leaders of the Syrian opposition received in Moscow by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov received a delegation of Assyrian leaders on the various fronts of the Syrian anti-Assad opposition in Moscow. The delegation was led by Nimrud ...
19 April 2017
VATICAN - Tadeusz Wojda, Under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Archbishop of Bialystok
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Białystok, Poland, Rev. Tadeusz Wojda S.A.C., Under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The announcemen ...
19 April 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Manado, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April 12, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Manado, Indonesia, presented by His Excellency Msgr. Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, M.S.C., ...
19 April 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 35-year-old priest dies due to the lack of medicines
Merida (Agenzia Fides) – On Holy Saturday, April 15, according to information sent to Fides from Merida (Venezuela), father José Luis Arismendi, 35, died due to the lack of medicines. For two days the priest waited fo ...
19 April 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Terrorist attack against the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen opened fire on an Egyptian police checkpoint near Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai late on Tuesday, April 18, killing one policeman and wounding four officials. ISIS claimed responsibil ...
19 April 2017
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016": 1,295 cases, 61 murders
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016", drawn up by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), at the headquarters of the Episcopal Conference (CNBB), in Brasilia was presented. 1,29 ...
19 April 2017
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "0 street children" program: education and rehabilitation
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the intention of preventing children under 12 years of age living in the street, the Office for the Protection of Childhood and Adolescence of the City of Cochabamba, is carrying out the ...
19 April 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Motion of no confidence against Zuma; "Vote according to conscience": appeal from Justice and Peace to parlamentarians
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in South Africa where in recent days tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, involved in a series ...
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