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24 June 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "A historic event, the first step to building peace"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Colombia recognizes the definitive agreement of Peace between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as "a historic event for t ...
24 June 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops pay a visit to the diocese of Maiduguri marked by the violence of Boko Haram
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are on a visit of solidarity with the people and the Church of Borno to see for ourselves the devastation caused by the activities of Boko Haram", said His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Leke Abegunrin, Ar ...
24 June 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops to resolve the conflict with teachers: Public dialogue and shared educational project
Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The National Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral considers that dialogue in order to address and resolve the conflict with the teachers in Oaxacan should be public, and it is also necessary ...
24 June 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Archbishop: the Pope is right, the definition of 'genocide' applied to the plight of Christians in the Middle East is misleading
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "What the Pope said on the definition of the 'genocide' applied to the sufferings of Christians in the Middle East is beautiful and useful, because it brings us back to reality and helps us not ...
24 June 2016
ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Archbishop of Taunggyi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Basilio Athai as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Taunggyi (Myanmar).
The newly-elected Archbishop was born on July 22, 1956 in Kyek ...
24 June 2016
OCEANIA/MARIANA ISLANDS - Appointment of the Bishop of Chalan Kanoa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Ryan Jimenez as Bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa (Saipan), in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The newly-elected Bishop was born on 18 ...
24 June 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Concerns of the Church on the new measures on migration
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - One notices an opening to review the migration policy for refugees, but must be realized in concrete, taking into account that the devil hides in the details. This is the meaning of the not ...
24 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sufi singer killed: pain and condemnation of the \Bishops
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Deep sorrow and condemnation for yet another murder that has shaken the nation": in a statement sent to Fides, the "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan, said i ...
24 June 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Armenians demonstrate to demand the election of a new Patriarch
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Turkish Christians of the Armenian Apostolic Church organized a protest demonstration yesterday, Thursday, June 23, in Istanbul, outside the headquarters of their Patriarchate, to as ...
23 June 2016
ASIA/CHINA - The orphans of Da Ming celebrate Father's Day for priests who take care of them
Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - The disabled children, abandoned by their parents, and the orphans welcomed at the Don Bosco Institute of Da Ming, in the Diocese of Han Dan, celebrated "Father's Day", celebrating the priests w ...
23 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Targeted killings against the Ahmadis: third victim
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A homeopathic doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya community was killed in his clinic in Karachi on June 20. Chaudhry Khaliq Ahmad was killed by unknown assailants while he was on his way to visit ...
23 June 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Militant Christian politician released by the Syrian apparatus after 30 months of detention
Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Christian political activist of Syriac-Orthodox confession Gabriel Moshe Kourieh, head of the political bureau of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, arrested by Syrian security forces in Qam ...
23 June 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro: "We need a clear sign that the signature of the agreement is concrete"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a clear sign that the signature of the agreement is not just a symbolic act", said His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja and President of the Episcopal Conferenc ...
23 June 2016
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meetings for the prevention, recovery and promotion of life against addiction
Mendoza (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the International Day of fight against the use and illicit traffic of drugs, the Archbishop of Mendoza, through the Pastoral against Addictions, Hogar de Cristo, and the desir ...
23 June 2016
ASIA - Death penalty in Indonesia and the Philippines: need to become promoters of an abolitionist culture
Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - "The campaign for the abolition of the death penalty is a big challenge in order to protect life, to promote justice and to humanize our societies. However, the campaign can be successful when citi ...
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