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19 April 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Elections in Jakarta, Christian candidate defeated
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - While the vote count is underway, all the projections made on the basis of polling stations already counted in the runoff election ballot for the election of the new governor of Jakarta attribut ...
12 April 2017
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “To run for re-election is inopportune and a threat to peace”, says Bishop Jubinville
San Pedro (Agenzia Fides) – “Inopportune and a threat to peace”. This is how the Bishop of San Pedro, Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., regards a proposed bill to change Paraguay’s Constitution, in order to al ...
12 April 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Following Palm Sunday massacre Easter for Coptic Christians in Egypt will be quiet prayer remembering the victims
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Easter for the Copt community here will be celebrated quietly in a spirit of prayer and in remembrance of those killed in the Palm Sunday attack last week. Traditional Copt meetings with state, ...
12 April 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Holy Week marred by episodes of religious intolerance
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in India fear new episodes of intolerance and disturbance during this Easter season. Fides received reports of incidents in six different states of India, episodes of harassmen ...
12 April 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan authorities have imposed a curfew throughout the State of Wau (north-west South Sudan) aft ...
12 April 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Holy Week of solidarity: Miranda food sharing
Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – "We live in very difficult times marked by scarcity of medicines and security: we must turn our hearts back towards God, He alone can help us overcome these tragic times. And we must ope ...
12 April 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad
AFRICA/EGYPT – Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After the massacres of Coptic Christians, disputes and arguments have resumed also in Egypt ...
11 April 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Franciscan brother murdered, food provisions for old people and disabled children stolen
Aragua (Agenzia Fides) –Franciscan Brother Diego Bedoya, a member of Hermanos Franciscanos de la Cruz Blanca (White Cross Franciscan Brothers) who runs Casa Hogar in the town of La Victoria, Aragua state of Venezuela, ...
11 April 2017
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Winner of the recent Rome female Marathon hails from Catholic Mission in Kofale
Kofale (Agenzia Fides) – Rahma Chota Tusa has won the Rome female Marathon for two years running. Rahma was born in Kofale, Ethiopia, where she grew up and trained at the Catholic Mission Sports Centre in Kofale (see ...
11 April 2017
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop Valenzuela insists on dialogue, 18 April peace talks third session
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 10 April Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid S.D.B., of Asunción, called on parties opposed to plans for presidential re-election, to reflect and participate in the Dialo ...
11 April 2017
AMERICA/CHILE - Another evangelical church is torched
Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Temuco, Héctor Vargas has firmly condemned the latest act of torching of yet another Evangelical church building in the district of Ercilla, yesterday. The gover ...
11 April 2017
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - new Archbishop of Nampula and Apostolico Administrator of Tete appointed
Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, 11 April 2017 has appointed as Archbishop of
Nampula (Mozambique) Bishop Inácio Saúre, I.M.C., until now Bishop of Tete. The Holy Father has appointed ...
11 April 2017
ASIA/MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE and BRUNEI - Appointment of PMS National Director
Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 2 March 2017 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
11 April 2017
AFRICA - “The problem of youth unemployment must be tackled”: Catholic Bishops of West Africa tell politicians in the region
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)-“Our youth accounts for 65% of the continent’s entire population. Unfortunately the majority are unemployed and exposed to trafficking of people and drugs, to violence and forced migration ...
11 April 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Looking towards Asian Youth Day: young Catholics in Bali focus on faith and dialogue
Denpasar (Agenzia Fides) – “Young people are the future of the Church. The Church must be a place which welcomes young people and encourages them to express their faith in various forms of activity”: Fides was ...
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