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28 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the Missionary Congress: "Church of Colombia, share your faith, be a missionary Church which goes forth!"
Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Conscience and missionary responsibility of the particular Churches": is the theme of Cardinal Fernando Filoni’s report, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, hel ...
28 May 2016
VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies begins May 30
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), begins on Monday, May 30 at the House of the Salesians, in Rome. The National Directors of the PMS from all continen ...
28 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni urges a "return to what is essential, to the joyful witness of faith in charity"
Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Friday, May 27, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, presided over the Eucharistic celebration in the Cathedral in Buc ...
27 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians: a vocation that has the entire world as its horizon
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of May 25, Cardinal Fernando Filoni presided over the Mass at the "San Luis Bertrán Intermisional Seminary" in Bogotà, together with the educational community and seminarians, ...
27 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni opens the National Missionary Congress: "we need Christ"
Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - As Bartimaeus "we are a bit blind, we are a bit beggars, a bit poor. We need Christ, to recover Christological faith. We need to believe that our life is loved by God in spite of moments of ...
27 May 2016
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Bishops have called for the release of political prisoners in order to achieve genuine reconciliation
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Reconciliation naturally demands the release of political prisoners mainly because no one (political party) can claim to have acted in complete innocence during the conflict", said Mgr. Ignace ...
27 May 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Tibù and the local Church are ready to mediate for the release of journalists
Tibù (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing concern after the disappearance of the journalist of El Tiempo newspaper, Salud Hernández-Mora, of whom we have no news since last Saturday, May 21, when from the municipality ...
27 May 2016
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children make toys for their peers affected by the earthquake
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The consequences caused by the earthquake last April 16 which devastated the country, continue to have an impact on children. In the provinces of Manabi and Esmeraldas, children of other areas in ...
27 May 2016
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops concerned about the announced operations for the expulsion of Central American immigrants
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Migration expressed deep concern over reports that U.S. Immi ...
27 May 2016
AFRICA - A European-African project o recover 7 million weapons in circulation in West Africa
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There are 7 million small arms circulating in West Africa, one million in Nigeria alone. 77,000 of these are in the hands of guerrilla groups that fuel conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, ...
25 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Puerto Leguízamo-Solano: geographically distant, but always in the heart of the Church
Puerto Leguízamo-Solano (Agenzia Fides) - "This Vicariate is a young Church, built on February 21, 2013, and therefore continues to grow, although it still accounts a reduced presence of missionary personnel (a local pr ...
25 May 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The arrival of the rains exacerbates the situation of more than 700,000 refugees
Yida (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency in the refugee camp in Yida, South Sudan continues. Strong winds and torrential rains have destroyed the tents and left thousands of people in dire straits. According to local source ...
25 May 2016
AMERICA/PERU - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Victor Livori Grech
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 6, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Victor Livori Grech, of the Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP) as Nat ...
25 May 2016
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Bishops' statement: "The outcome of the elections must be accepted by all"
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Episcopal Conference (EDC) has called on political leaders and all Dominican nationals to conclude the election process (see Fides 12, 17 and 19/05/2016) in a peaceful and re ...
25 May 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Constitutional Court’s decision paves the way for Kabila to stay in power for a third term
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court ruling of May 11 states that the constitution permits the president of the republic to remain in office until the installation of the new elected president.
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