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8 March 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Trump: no "selective reception" reserved for Christian refugees
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump in late January, and intended to suspend the entry into the United States of refugees from seven countries with a Muslim ...
8 March 2017
AFRICA/GHANA - The consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a blessing for the Ghanaian nation
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "I bring the Pope’s greetings, his Apostolic Blessing and his fervent wish that your nation continues to move forward in peace and stability, on a path of development that may become a model of ...
8 March 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CELAM and the Executive Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences gathered in Bogota
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 March the annual meeting of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council) with the secretaries-general of the 22 countries of Latin America and the Episcopal Conferences Caribbean takes pl ...
8 March 2017
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The House approves the death penalty: the Church "in mourning"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine Catholic Church is "in mourning" after the House of Representatives approved the re-imposition of capital punishment in the nation. On March 7, 217 to 54 with one abstention, lawm ...
7 March 2017
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: corruption is a "social leprosy"
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - "The state of corruption, ethical degradation, political feudalism that the country is suffering from, the prioritization of personal and sectarian interests is hindering the enhancement of the ...
7 March 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - A new project to offer more reception to street children
Tuxtepec (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Chiria, founded over 20 years ago in the territory of San Bartolo, assists street children and with family issues. In order to welcome these children, this year’s project is ba ...
7 March 2017
AMERICA/PANAMA - "The poor pay a high price because of corruption", denounces Mgr. Ulloa during the national holiday of the Nazarene
Atalaya (Agenzia Fides) - The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Atalaya, 250 km from the city of Panama, was the traditional appointment destination for devotees of Jesus of Nazareth, which every year on March 5 g ...
7 March 2017
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The drama of "bacha-bazi", boys kidnapped and sold, used as spies
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - For many years activists for human rights in Afghanistan have been putting pressure on government authorities to take action to prohibit and severely punish those responsible for the cruel practic ...
7 March 2017
ASIA/INDIA - From the Philippines a gift of faith for Catholic couples in Orissa
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Raman and Teresita Santiago, a Christian married couple from the Philippines, members of the Catholic movement "Couples For Christ", have arrived in Orissa in recent days for a meeting with ...
7 March 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "People rummaging in the garbage looking for food increases" highlights Mgr. Gutierrez
Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Ciudad Bolivar, His Exc. Mgr. Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. complained that every day there are more and more people rummaging in the garbage looking for foo ...
7 March 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - In Kirkuk, the political and Christian Social components try to unite into a single Council
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The appeal repeatedly launched by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I to Iraqi Christians not to proceed "in random order" on the political and social ground, but to try to merge their forces in o ...
7 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still obstacles regarding the implementation of the San Silvestro agreement; for the Bishops "one must be patient"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not the task of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) to meddle in the internal affairs of political platforms", said His Exc. Mgr. Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of Mbandaka- ...
6 March 2017
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kuching and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 March 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Kuching (Malaysia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. John Ha Tiong Hock. The Holy Fathe ...
6 March 2017
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Philippine Church is not "against Duterte"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - There is a gap between President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration and the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The faithful see the pronouncements of Duterte against the Church and against pries ...
6 March 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister of religious endowements: defending churches against the assaults is part of the doctrine of Islam
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks on Christians and their property are "attacks on all of us". Attacks on churches are comparable to "attacks on mosques", and the defense of Christians and their churches "is part of th ...
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