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2 August 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 40 years after Mgr. Angelelli’s death: "Always listen to the people and the Gospel"
La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful from all over the Country and the world filled the chapel dedicated to "Monsignor Enrique Angelelli", in order to attend mass celebrated 40 years after the murder of Bisho ...
1 August 2016
AMERICA/PANAMA - WYD 2019: from Krakow to Panama the first American diocese
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – On hearing Pope Francis announce that Panama has been chosen to host the next World Youth Day in 2019, the Bishops of that local Church were overwhelmed with joy, certain that their c ...
1 August 2016
AMERICA/SURINAME - Redemptorist fathers in Suriname: 150 years of mission special concern for slaves
Paramaribo (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 1 August 2016, the feast day of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, marks a mission anniversary: 150 years of the service of the Redemptorist Fathers (the Congregation of the Mo ...
1 August 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Bishops concerned about wave of school burning at the hands of pupils
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Are there persons inciting Kenyan school pupils to burn schools? This is the concern expressed by Bishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba, Bishop of Nakuru and Chairman of the Kenyan Conference of Cathol ...
1 August 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Christian pastor brutally murdered by Maoist rebels
Godavari (Agenzia Fides) - India’s Christians have denounced the brutal murder of an innocent Christian pastor: on 29 July Pastor Yohan Maraiah was mercilessly beaten to death in the east Godavari district, of Ind ...
1 August 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “We must not become a country where the killing of political candidates is seen as a normal event”
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)-“We are deeply saddened to see that after 22 years of democracy, politically motivated killings, a shameful reminder of a painful past, are again being committed” said Bishop Abel G ...
1 August 2016
EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscans: mercy and forgiveness in these times of conflict
Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "May this centenary help us experience a little healthy shame because no one appears to want to do anything to put peace and concord in the conflicting reality in which we live and may it hel ...
30 July 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - War driven families seek safety in Catholic schools
Wau (Agenzia Fides) – In the county of Wau, situated in the western part of Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan, families fleeing the consequences of fighting between government forces and armed militia continue t ...
30 July 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - A “contest” of promises over future autonomy for Niniveh Plains
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Atheel al Nujaifi, a local Sunnite politician former governor of the Province of Niniveh and leader of the al Hadba political party, has asserted that once freed from the jihadist clutches ...
30 July 2016
ASIA/JORDAN - Prince Hassan bin Talal: an act of blind violence, the murder of French Catholic priest Fr. Jacques Hamel
Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The assassination of Fr Jacques Hamel, the French Catholic priest brutally murdered by two pro-Islamic state fanatics while he was celebrating mass, was an act of blind violence which “sh ...
30 July 2016
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Three people abducted by the “People’s Army of Paraguay". The local Catholic Church offers to mediate for their release
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay (CEP), following another abduction by the co-called " People’s Army of Paraguay (EPP), has issued a statement expressing solidarity wi ...
29 July 2016
EUROPE/CROATIA - Confirmation of the National PMS Director Rev. Antun Stefan
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 30 June 2016, confirmed Rev. Antun Stefan, a member of the clergy of the diocese of Varazdin ...
29 July 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - New Rector of Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 20 May 2016, appointed Rector of Good Shepherd Major Interdiocesan Seminary in Kaduna, Nig ...
29 July 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of new Rector at St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 30 April 2016, appointed Rector of St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad, India, Rev. ...
29 July 2016
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Campaign on several fronts to discredit the Church in Venezuela, referendum still delayed
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Ramon Ovidio Pérez Morales, emeritus of the Venezuelan diocese of Los Teques and former President of the Venezuelan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CEV), has warned the people bewa ...
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