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28 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A national plan and a "toll free number" for the protection of human rights
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A "toll free number" for citizens, 24 hours a 24, to denounce human rights violations and provide the first legal assistance to victims: is the initiative launched by the Federal Ministry for ...
28 June 2016
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Challenge for green and cheap electricity
Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 645 million Africans without electricity which, among other things, prevents them from carrying out any form of economic activities. Electricity is the main challenge for the peopl ...
28 June 2016
VATICAN - The Pope will deliver the Pallium to 25 Metropolitan Archbishops, 4 of Propaganda Fide territories
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, according to custom, the Holy Father Francis will bless and deliver the pallium to new metropolitan Archbishops appointed during the year. Th ...
28 June 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - A new church for Christian refugees from the Nineveh Plain was inaugurated in Ankawa
Ankawa (Agenzia Fides) – The new, large church inaugurated on Monday, June 27 by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I in Ankawa, a Christian-majority suburb of the city of Erbil, where many Christians fled their villages ...
28 June 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of Bishop of Malang, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 June 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Malang (Indonesia) by His Exc. Mgr. Herman Joseph Sahadat Pandoyoputro, O. Carm., in ...
28 June 2016
ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Hiroshima
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S., rector of the National Catholic Seminary of Fukuoka as Bishop of the vacant Diocese of Hiroshima (Japan) ...
27 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The commitment of the Dominicans of Lahore for poor children
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Sisters in Pakistan have completed the construction of a new school building in Lahore with 12 classrooms, a teachers room and a playroom for all the children. The school has been o ...
27 June 2016
AFRICA - "Break the Wall": to defend the rights of minors in precarious conditions
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A new initiative of the Spanish NGO Plan International launches an appeal for child education in Africa. Through the campaign "Break the Wall", the NGO wants to extend education to many young ill ...
27 June 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - The process for the laws on the construction of churches and personal status continues
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new legislation on the construction of churches is a "priority" for Egyptian parliamentarians, who are engaged in last adjustments of the new legislative text containing the new provisions. Th ...
27 June 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Christians in Antioch celebrate the feast of Saints Peter and Paul together in the "Cave Church of Peter "
Antakia (Agenzia Fides) - This year in Antakya, Turkey, Catholics and Orthodox will celebrate together the feast of Saints Peter and Paul at the "Cave Church of Peter", the ancient cave church on Mt. Silpius, reopened to ...
27 June 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops invite all Colombians to commit themselves to building peace
Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - Several Bishops of Colombia have commented on the recent peace agreements.
Among the various testimonies sent to Fides, we mention the Bishop of Cúcuta, His Exc. Mgr. Victor Ochoa, who said: " ...
27 June 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Get to the truth of the facts respecting the rights of the person
Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential to increase the importance of real professional preparation regarding all those who are to investigate on crimes in our society, so that by respecting the dignity of the human ...
27 June 2016
ASIA/INDIA - The Archbishop of Vasai: "The laity is protagonist in the Church"
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The laity have a very important role in the Church. In India we want to build a Church where the laity is the protagonist": is what His Exc. Mgr. Felix Machado, Archbishop of Vasai said, presidi ...
25 June 2016
VATICAN - Statement from the Director of the Holy See Press Office
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Lombardi issued the following statement to reporters on June 23:
"In response to the requests of news by several journalists I am in a positi ...
24 June 2016
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Birth of a new Catholic community in Kokossa: catechumens - of the poorest of the poor
Kokossa (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, June 19, Solemnity of Pentecost according to the liturgical calendar of the Ethiopian Church, a new Catholic Christian community was born in Kokossa, in Ethiopia, in the Oromia regi ...
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