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14 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN evacuates 25 seminarians of the Seminary of Kananga assaulted in February
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five seminarians were evacuated by the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The seminarians evacuated in Mbuji-Mayi were part of the group that w ...
14 March 2017
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Resignation of the Bishop of Jeonju, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On March 14, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Jeonju (Korea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Ri Pyung-ho. The Holy Father a ...
14 March 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Even Assyrian Patriarch Mar Gewargis supports the aggregation process of political and social Christian acronyms
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Even Mar Gewargis III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, supports the impetus promoted by political and social acronyms related to Christian communities in Iraq towards an aggregation ...
14 March 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war our citizenship has been subjected to more strain"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war (1967-1970), at no other time in the history of our dear country has the issue of our common citizenship been subjected to more strain", say the Cath ...
9 March 2017
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Serious loss for the Ethiopian Church: a tragic accident killed four religious sisters
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Anne who died in a car accident, a fifth is in a coma and two were critica ...
9 March 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of all religions united against all forms of radicalism and intolerance
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Over 3,000 young people from different religious communities gathered in Semarang, capital of Central Java province, to attend an interreligious meeting, committing themselves to "develop an in ...
9 March 2017
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential ballot: Mgr. Cabrera calls for respect and dialogue
Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to win the elections, it is important to know how to rule. This requires certain attitudes such as closeness, listening and service, regardless of our political or religious ...
9 March 2017
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Continental Meeting of National Directors: analysis of the reality and the functioning of the PMS
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The thirteenth Continental Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of America is taking place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started on March 6, w ...
9 March 2017
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The chapel of the Ascension, on the top of the Mount of Olives, damaged in an arson attack
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, March 8th, the chapel of the Ascension, located at the top of the Mount of Olives, was damaged in an arson attack. According to the media of the Custody of the Holy Land, in all ...
9 March 2017
ASIA/SRI LANKA - 80,000 people affected by the worst drought in 40 years
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - About one million people urgently need food aid and tens of thousands need urgent life-saving aid due to the drought that is severely hitting Sri Lanka. The alarm emerges from a statement of the ...
9 March 2017
AFRICA/CAMEROON - English-speaking areas without the Internet for 50 days to try to block the protest for bilingualism
Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - English-speaking regions of Cameroon (in the north-west and south-west of the country), have now been without the internet for 50 days which is causing serious inconvenience to the local popula ...
9 March 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch at the forum on post-conflict: let us copy the distinction between politics and religion from the West
Sulaymaniyah (Agenzia Fides) - When Mosul will be completely taken away from the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and the Iraqi people will be faced with the difficult task to reconstruct a torn political, ...
8 March 2017
INDONESIA - Saudi king meets with religious leaders and praises tolerance and coexistence
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We shared aspirations and hopes with the Saudi king. This meeting is symbolic and very important": said to Fides Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo, after the Interreligious meeting organized by the G ...
8 March 2017
AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Bastres Florence’s message: "Woman, Star of Chile"
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A society which recognizes itself as modern and democratic must recognize the right of all women in order to allow them to contribute to the public and political life of our country, and to cr ...
8 March 2017
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Women of Mission: Catholic Mission for Women's Day
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many initiatives under way for International Women's Day, Catholic Mission in Brisbane has organized an event for its supporters during which stories of missionary women and their ext ...
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