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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 ...
3 March 2017
ASIA/CHINA - Carry out conversion with charitable works: the Lenten journey of the continental Catholic community
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - True conversion is realized through the works of charity towards each other, as taught by Pope Francis in his Lenten message, "Scripture is a gift. Other persons are a gift", is how Catholics in ...
3 March 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Ochoa denounces: "Young people are becoming the protagonists of criminal acts"
Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use, verified by the high percentage of local drug trafficking involving the younger generation, is just one of many realities that worries the Catholic Church of Cucuta: "What one lives her ...
3 March 2017
AFRICA/KENYA - Lenten Campaign: "Tribalism and corruption threaten the Country; The Beatitudes are the way to a better Country"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tribalism and corruption undermine the peace and stability of the Kenyan nation", warned His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of the Bishops' Commission for Justice an ...
3 March 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian President al Sisi meets the Chaldean and Maronite Patriarchs: let us establish the principle of citizenship in all Arab countries
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders, in the current historical phase, have a key role in spreading in all Arab countries, the principle of citizenship, and reject false interpretations of Holy Books and religious t ...
3 March 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Violations of religious freedom increase
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against religious communities and religious freedom abuses increased in Indonesia in 2016: says the Report on Religious Freedom in Indonesia 2016, carried out and just published by the ...
2 March 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR -Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the investigation into an alleged miracle attributed to Blessed Oscar Romero
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of El Salvador announced that it has sent the findings of an extensive research to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican, on a "presumed healing" attributed to ...
2 March 2017
AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Peter" Regional Seminary in Cape Coast
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Robert Charles Snyper, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Cape ...
2 March 2017
ASIA/CAMBODIA - A new church dedicated to St. Therese of Lisieux and new baptisms at Easter
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - There is great vitality in the Catholic community in Cambodia: on 18 February after the consecration of the new church of St Peter in Pot hon (North of Phnom Penh), the Apostolic Vicariate of ...
2 March 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - The "Declaration of Al Azhar" relaunches the "principle of citizenship" also for the Islamic world
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After two days of speeches and debates, hosted by the Conference of "freedom, citizenship, diversity and integration", organized in Cairo by the Sunni University of Al Azhar and the Council of Mus ...
2 March 2017
AFRICA/SUDAN - More than 31,000 South Sudanese have left the country because of famine
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Half of the expected number of refugees from South Sudan have already arrived in Sudan in the first two months of the year. The statement comes from the Office of the United Nations High Commis ...
2 March 2017
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Are there economic interests of "strong men" behind the assaults of Peuls shepherds?
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Bocaranga, 120 km north of Bozoum, in the northwest of the Central African Republic remains very tense after the attack on February 2 carried out by armed groups of Peuls shepher ...
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