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6 March 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 10,000 displaced persons have returned home
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "All refugees have returned home!" The news was reported by Fr. Federico Trinchero, Discalced Carmelite missionary who works in the Notre Dame du Mont Carmel convent in Bangui, capital of the Cen ...
6 March 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal of human rights organizations against the crimes committed against the Rohingya
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Thirteen organizations engaged in the defense of human rights have urged the United Nations to investigate the atrocities committed by the Burmese army against the Muslim minority Rohingya. "The ...
6 March 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Auxiliary of Juba: "No to National Prayer called by the President whose troops are responsible for the tragedy that afflicts us"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Why should I go to pray where there is no holiness, where there is no forgiveness? It is a joke to hear the President of the Country calling prayers while at the moment, the soldiers are hunting p ...
6 March 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Last option for undocumented immigrants: to live in a church
Denver (Agenzia Fides) - Testimonies of the situation experienced by undocumented migrants continue to be sent to Fides since Donald Trump’s presidency.
Between fear and anxiety, many children no longer attend school ...
6 March 2017
ASIA/SYRIA - Greek-Melkite Patriarchate: Patriarch Gregoire III continues to carry out his tasks
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A note released by the communications office of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Greek-Melkite reports that Grègoire Patriarch Laham III continues to carry out his role, is preparing to laun ...
6 March 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lenten seminar: "Seek the Kingdom of God and the good of the peoples"
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Seek first the Kingdom of God" is the title of the Lenten seminar organized recently by the Diocesan Catechetical Centre in Karachi at Saint Patrick College. As Fides learns, the event, organiz ...
4 March 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the Red Crescent provides assistance to the Copts fleeing from northern Sinai
Ismailia (Agenzia Fides) - Local volunteers of the Red Crescent are among the groups engaged in offering aid and reception to Coptic Egyptians who fled from al Arish and northern Sinai, following a series of killings in ...
4 March 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - The "Mother Teresa of Burma" takes care of AIDS patients
Yangon (Myanmar) – They all call her the "Mother Teresa of Burma": Sister Marta Mya Thwe, a religious of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Apparition (SJA), is tirelessly committed to taking care of people with AID ...
4 March 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Mendoza condemns the killing of a journalist: "They want to silence the voice of the people"
Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Mgr. Salvador Rangel Mendoza, condemned the murder of the journalist, Cecilio Pineda Birto which took place in Ciudad Altamirano, Tierra C ...
4 March 2017
EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionaries, models of the Church that goes forth, Spanish-American Day: Latin America awaits you!
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Missionaries are models of the Church that goes forth", proposes Cardinal Marc Ouellet, president of the Pontifical Council for Latin America in his message on the occasion of the Spanish-Americ ...
4 March 2017
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Letter of Apostolic Administrator Pizzaballa: We made mistakes concerning the University of Madaba
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Lent is "a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death". Even the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in this delicate moment of its history, is cal ...
3 March 2017
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Calm, prudence and dialogue regarding the Constitution" ask the Bishops
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is going through a worrying situation of political and social conflict. The conflict is exacerbated by the risk of a confrontation and fragmentation of society, caused by the legal ...
3 March 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Bioethics and Pastoral Care of the sick: new and difficult issues that affect human life
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "During his recent visit to the Camillian mission in Flores, Father Leo Pessini, Superior General of the Camillians (MI), held a series of lectures on Bioethics and pastoral care of the sick", s ...
3 March 2017
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Restoration of the Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre to be completed before Easter
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - After nine months of works the restoration of the Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is about to end. The media linked to the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land inform that the scaffo ...
3 March 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - The slavery of Rohingya girls
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Last October, the Burmese Army carried out a military operation in the State of Rajine, North Myanmar, following an attack on a border post in the region which caused the death of nine agents. Si ...
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