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22 December 2016
EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" together for creation and for children affected by climate change
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 59th time, in the days leading up to January 6th, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ...
22 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa seek protection for Christmas
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before Christmas, the Christians of Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa, the epicenter of anti-Christian massacres of 2008, call for a Christmas in peace and free fro ...
22 December 2016
AMERICA/CUBA - New version of the website of the Church of Cuba
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In order to continue to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and spread the pastoral action of the pilgrim Church on the largest island of the Antilles, a new website of the Conference of Catho ...
22 December 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fun activity campaign to remove child workers from the road
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - For the entire month of December a series of activities that provide fun initiatives against child labor, with the objective of removing children from the street, was carried out in Bogota. Accor ...
21 December 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drugs among the new forms of poverty to be addressed urgently
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to help those who have fallen to get up and prevent others who are vulnerable to fall ... We will never be able to replace families, but as a Church, we are the family of God, and ...
21 December 2016
AFRICA/SUDAN - Health emergency: Eleven clinics have already been shut in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of health facilities supported by the World Health Organization in strife-torn areas of Sudan risk closure due to a lack of funds, exposing one million people to likely epidemics. Eleven ...
21 December 2016
EUROPE/ITALY - Appeal of the Rector Major to the Salesians for the "ad gentes" mission
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has launched the Salesians worldwide an "ad gentes" missionary appeal, addressing "all those confreres who feel ca ...
21 December 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Solidarity of the Diocese of Cuautitlan for the fireworks market explosion
Tultepec (Agenzia Fides) - "We join all market workers of San Pablito in Tultepec in this tragedy", writes the Bishop of Cuautitlan, His Exc. Mgr. Guillermo Ortiz Mondragón, expressing solidarity with the victims of the ...
21 December 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped in the Delta region
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest, Fr. Jude Onyebadi, pastor of the church of St. Peter and Paul in Issele-Azagba, in the Delta region in the south of the Country has been kidnapped in Nigeria. According to ...
21 December 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians celebrate the Prophet’s birthday, the Muslims celebrate Christmas
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue and good Muslim-Christian relations are also built with the mutual participation in the major holidays of the respective religions. It so happens that the Lahore Franciscans celebrated P ...
21 December 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two human right activists kidnapped, a third seriously injured, in the east of the Country
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Serious violence against three activists of civil society in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The three women are part of the Coalition des femmes pour la protection des droits ...
20 December 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The solution is not barbarism": the Archbishop of Ciudad Bolivar after the violence and ransacking
Ciudad Bolivar (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly believe that the solution is not barbarism, acts of vandalism and irrationality. We can solve our conflicts in a civilized, peaceful and democratic framework. Violence is the ...
20 December 2016
AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 December 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas (Peru), by His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde ...
20 December 2016
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Central American migrants "seek accommodation" together with the Bishops
El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 30 Central American migrants were special guests of the "Posada Sin Fronteras", which was organized by the Diocese of El Paso (Texas) and Las Cruces (New Mexico), last weekend.
To lo ...
20 December 2016
AMERICA/PANAMA - "A Doctor at home" initiative in favor of the most vulnerable
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The health initiatives in Mexico City, called "Médico en tu casa" and "Cunas CDMX", were presented to the Ministry of Health (Minsa) authorities of Panama that wants to put them in place i ...
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