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20 December 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Clashes in Lubumbashi; "a girl killed and a parish looted " according to local sources
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The people, especially in the suburbs, took to the streets to protest. There were clashes with the police, with gunfire. We have news of a student who was killed by a stray bullet. Cars were s ...
20 December 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Archbishop Pizzaballa: the law to 'silence' mosques would represent a "dangerous precedent"
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Apostolic Administrator of the vacant see of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, expressed his disapproval regarding the project supported by the Israe ...
20 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishops of Bombay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Allwyn D'Silva, Episcopal Vicar of Bombay, and rev. Barthol Barretto, of the clergy of Mumbai, parish priest and Vicar Forane as auxiliary ...
19 December 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The measures taken have worsened the crisis, the Bishops call on politicians to listen to people
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) issued a message addressed to the authorities of Venezuela on recent economic measures imposed. With regard to the new measures, the Bishops denounce: " ...
19 December 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Threats to the Archbishop of Cali, but "Colombia must overcome this stage" responds Mgr. Monsalve Mejia
Cali (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, Archbishop of Cali, talking to some media operators, reported that last Friday, December 16, strangers delivered leaflets to the Archbishop's house, in ...
19 December 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tension on the eve of the expiry of Kabila’s mandate; for the Bishops "dialogue must continue"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Dialogue must continue in order to find a solution to the political crisis". This is the meaning of the message of the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, sent to Agenzia Fides, with ...
19 December 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - UN to vote on sending observers to Aleppo. Father Murad: Muslims first victims of the jihadists
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of violence in Syria are all Syrians, Muslims and Christians. And the poor are those who suffer most, those who have not had a chance to escape". While the evacuation of the populat ...
19 December 2016
ASIA/SRI LANKA - A new law will change the access to information in the Country
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka’s upcoming 69th independence commemorations, which will be celebrated on February 4, will be of special value to the island’s media, if the new law on the Right to Information (RTI ...
19 December 2016
EUROPE/ITALY - Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries has passed away
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, December 18, at about 4.30 in the morning, the Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries (Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions), Father Luigi Menegazzo pa ...
19 December 2016
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After three years 2,000 displaced leave San Salvatore parish thanks to Caritas
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,000 displaced people, who had been welcomed in San Salvatore parish, in the 2nd district of Bangui return home after three years.
Don Paternal Zolo, vicar of San Salvatore parish, said t ...
19 December 2016
ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Mary and St. Ambrose: models of authenticity of the Catholic academic research
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Mary Immaculate and St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, are the two models of authentic inner purity, of the search for truth and of the Catholic academic research without prejudices or personal ...
17 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - The tribal become entrepreneurs thanks to a nun
Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Farmers, artisans, merchants: Garo tribals in the Indian state of Nagaland in northeast India, have become entrepreneurs and have improved their standard of life dealing with cultivation, process ...
17 December 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC register themselves as a political party. No Vatican "mediation"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Bogota, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue the road taken to transform itself into a political party in 2017, and have registered themselves at the National Electoral C ...
17 December 2016
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez: "To change the culture of power for the power of culture"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "To change the culture of power for the power of culture": this is how we can summarize the message of the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio José Báez Ortega, in his speech at the Human Righ ...
17 December 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to other Churches: let us not proceed in a random order. Let us be united as "Christian member"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency situation that the entire Iraqi nation is facing also calls Christians not to proceed in a random order, emphasizing in an exasperated manner the identity factors of each ecclesial ...
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