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21 February 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Thousands of victims due to air pollution: for the Church "conscience and action" are needed
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen thousand Indians die every day from direct or indirect causes of air pollution. And the progressive air poisoning is often linked to climate change. This is what a new study published ...
21 February 2017
ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen in Lebanon: even Middle Eastern Christians must be helped. Meeting with the Grand Mufti canceled, meeting with Maronite Patriarch
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The best way to protect Christians in the Middle East consists in the "eradication of radical Islam", while we must avoid policies that encourage the exodus of Middle Eastern Christians from thei ...
21 February 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - State of emergency declared in Unity State: 100,000 people at risk of hunger
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100,000 people are at risk of hunger in Unity State, in the region of the Upper Nile, South Sudan. The state of food emergency has been declared by the government in Juba and United Natio ...
21 February 2017
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Still waiting for the election results, the Bishops call for truth and transparency
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The final results of every popular election must always reflect the virtues of justice and the value of transparency. Political institutions have to guarantee them and build trust, the foundatio ...
21 February 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the voice "religion" in the application forms for the next census
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in 30 years, the census of the Egyptian population, conducted by the Central Agency for public monilization and Statistics will also include a field for religious. Abu Bakr Gend ...
21 February 2017
VATICAN - Death of Fr. Galbiati, PIME: he was Secretary General of the PMU and POPF
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Saturday, February 18, Father Fernando Galbiati died in Lecco. He was a missionary in China, twelfth Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Gene ...
21 February 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo denounces: Acts of vandalism against the Church
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a resurgence of fear, anger, uncertainty", says Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a message sent to Agenzia F ...
21 February 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church on the situation of migrants: "legal, political and social solutions are no longer an option, they are imperative issues"
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the executive orders of President Donald Trump, a hostile environment, insecurity, uncertainty and terror has been created concerning thousands of people who are accused of being cri ...
21 February 2017
EUROPE/ITALY - The right to emigrate but also the "right to remain" in their own country
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration is a phenomenon that is part of human history. The United Nations estimates indicate 244 million international migrants and 65.3 million people in a situation of forced migration. Beyond ...
21 February 2017
ASIA/MONGOLIA - New priest ordained in Mongolia in the Jubilee year
Ulaan Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in Mongolia in 2017 celebrates its silver Jubilee, the community is celebrating the ordination of Bernard Kambala, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate H ...
20 February 2017
VATICAN - Pope's appeal for the victims of violence in Congo, Pakistan and Iraq
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian prayer of the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square yesterday, Sunday, February 19, the Holy Father invited to pray for the people who suffer violence in ...
20 February 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Mweka, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 18, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mweka (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gérard Mulumba ...
20 February 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - "Televita", the first Catholic TV
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has its first Catholic television in streaming and will soon broadcast via satellite frequency. As Fides learns from the Commission for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Jaka ...
20 February 2017
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Growing expectation for the "Memorándum de entendimiento"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing expectation for the "Memorándum de entendimiento" that the Organization of American States (OAS) will have to sign on February 28 together with the government of Daniel Ortega, ...
20 February 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Catholicos Karekin II convenes a summit to face the internal problems of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, convened at the Patriarchal See of Echmiadzin Catholicosate, in Yerevan, some of the protagonists of the dispute in place with regards to the n ...
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