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23 January 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Rosa Chavez: "Violence is not the solution to the problem of gangs"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, yesterday expressed in the usual press conference on Sunday, his concern for disputes among the main political forc ...
23 January 2017
VATICAN - The Pope's greetings to those celebrating the Lunar New Year
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After praying the midday Angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis sent greetings to all people who celebrate the Lunar New Year, with these words: "In the Far ...
23 January 2017
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - International Festival on child labor
Mar de Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The initiative "Building Cinema: International Film Festival on Work" has announced the opening of registrations regarding the fourth edition of the international short film competition and ...
23 January 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The ultimatum of the Military Adviser of the President to former M23 who have returned from Uganda
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "CEPADHO appreciates the firmness and the opportunity of general Olenga's message of ultimatum to former members of the M23 to surrender to the Congolese armed forces (FARDC)". This is what wa ...
23 January 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "positive signs" from Islam in the fight against religious extremism
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The expected defeat of jihadist militants and their campaigns of terror provides the opportunity for a real change of pace in Iraqi politics, which aims to build a democratic State based on the ...
23 January 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Young Catholics march for peace and for the common good
Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A large gathering of young Catholics prayed, reflected and demonstrated for peace in Karnataka, the Indian state crossed by anti-Christian violence due to the presence of extremist movements a ...
20 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Celli will not participate in the meetings for dialogue, an absence that says a lot
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Executive Secretary de la Mesa de la Unidad Democratic (MUD), Jesus Alberto Torrealba, announced yesterday, Thursday, January 19, that the Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, Aldo Giordano, infor ...
20 January 2017
AMERICA/PERU - "Wheelchairs for the poorest of the poor": biomechanical supports for 350 poor disabled persons
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Peru, through Gerenza for Social Development, thanks to the solidarity and support of Hans Peter Dentler, a German citizen, will distribute biomechanical supports for 350 people with physic ...
20 January 2017
ASIA/JAPAN - Takayama Ukon, "Samurai of Christ" will be beatified on February 7
Osaka (Agenzia Fides) - The solemn ceremony of beatification of Justo Takayama Ukon (1552-1615), the "Samurai of Christ", a person dear to the Japanese Church, will be held on February 7 in Osaka. This was announced to A ...
20 January 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - A year after the kidnapping, Cardinal Onaiyekan recalls Fr. Oyaka, whose fate we know nothing
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - For over a year there has been no news of Fr. Gabriel Oyaka, a Nigerian Spiritan father (Congregation of the Holy Spirit), who was kidnapped on September 7, 2015 in Kogi State (see Fides 10/09/201 ...
20 January 2017
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishops of the "Holy Land Coordination": let us oppose the "de facto annexation" perpetrated through illegal settlements
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The military occupation for fifty years on the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza violated "the human dignity of both Palestinians and Israelis". And now all the people responsible are called ...
20 January 2017
AMERICA/PERU - "The country wants the truth": the Bishops on corruption and the Sodality of Christian Life
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Peru, at the conclusion of the 109th Ordinary Assembly, issued a statement, also sent to Fides, in which it expressed solidarity with the victims of natural disasters wh ...
20 January 2017
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kerema
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 January 2017 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Pedro Baquero, SDB, Vicar Provincial of the Salesians of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands as Bishop of the Diocese of Kerema (Papua New ...
20 January 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - More than 4,500 children reunited with their families, more than 16 thousand recruited as soldiers
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - At least 4,563 children have been reunited with their families in South Sudan, some of them after years of separation. "Since 2013, 9,046 cases of children also remain active and open requiring ong ...
20 January 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - Father Santoro’s killer provides an unbelievable version of the murder
Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - Oğuzhan Akdin, the 26-year-old murderer of Don Andrea Santoro, after his early release - which took place last August - has released for the first time to the Turkish press his version of the m ...
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