News
5 September 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarchate rejects the "false allegations" regarding the involvement in the failed coup
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople deplores the "false allegations" that have circulated in recent days in the Turkish press regarding the involvement of Ecumenical Patriarch Barthol ...
5 September 2016
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Constitutional Court rejects the appeal filed by the defeated candidate in the presidential elections
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court of Zambia rejected the appeal filed by Hakainde Hichilema, the defeated candidate in the presidential election by outgoing President, Edgar Lungu, paving the way for his ...
2 September 2016
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A "Committee for Peace" to stop violence in Oruro
Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - The Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Oruro, along with the Bishop of the Diocese of Oruro, His Exc. Mgr. Krzysztof Bialasik Wawrowska, SVD, announced the formation of a Committee ...
2 September 2016
EUROPE/SPAIN - International Congress of the Dominicans on Human Rights, between past and future
Salamanca (Agenzia Fides) - The Master General of the Order of Preachers (OP), Fr. Bruno Cadoré opened yesterday afternoon the "Dominicans conference in the promotion and defense of human rights: past, present and futur ...
2 September 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - A Synod of the Chaldean Church on the exodus of Christians, martyrs to be beatified and communities of the diaspora
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification of the Chaldean martyrs, pastoral and charitable interventions in favor of the displaced, the phenomenon of the emigration of Christians and the choice of the new Chaldean Bishop ...
2 September 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Taliban attack a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar: a Catholic layman killed
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Four Taliban militants attacked early this morning, at 5.30 am, a "Christian colony", a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan. The lay Catholic Samuel Masih, a father, ...
2 September 2016
VATICAN - Seminar for the new Bishops of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - 94 Bishops have been appointed in the last two years in the ecclesiastical circumscriptions dependent on the Missionary Congregation, who will participate in a Study Seminar organized for t ...
2 September 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas organizes a conference in Abuja against human trafficking
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Sixty million people were either refugees or forcibly displaced in 2015. In Africa thousands of adults and children are being forced to flee conflict, poverty and persecution and are particularly ...
2 September 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Sister Prema: "Thanks to Pope Francis, who chose Mother Teresa as an icon of mercy "
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God and to Pope Francis, who proclaimed the Year of mercy and chose Mother Teresa as an 'icon of mercy'. Mother Teresa’s canonization is an opportunity to spread the messa ...
2 September 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - National dialogue begins, but without major opposition figures
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "One can verify that dialogue is not inclusive enough". This sentence by Jean-Michel Dumond, the EU representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expresses skepticism with which the inter ...
2 September 2016
ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Unofficial rumor on the death of President Karimov. Patriarch Kirill thanks him for facilitating "interreligious dialogue"
Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - While diplomatic sources cited by international agencies announced the death of the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, who in past days suffered a brain hemorrhage, the Patriarch of Moscow ...
1 September 2016
ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: "Mother Teresa, a fully Indian saint"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The canonization of Mother Teresa is an important event for India. We are grateful to the government for its support regarding the ceremony on September 4 at the Vatican. It is an important d ...
1 September 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week for Peace: let us reconcile, meet and rebuild
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 4 to 11 September the 29th edition of the "Week for Peace" will be held in Colombia and the main objective will be to reflect on the urgent need to "reconcile, meet and rebuild relationships ...
1 September 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - The Turkish press accuses Patriarch Bartholomew of complicity with the failed coup
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time a Turkish media has explicitly accused Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I of being an accomplice in the failed coup last July 15, organized, according to Anka ...
1 September 2016
AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. Isaac Ebo Blay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Isaac Ebo Blay, of the archdiocesan clergy of Cape Coast as National ...
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