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23 May 2016
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Bogotà ordains two Apostolic Vicars: "Be fathers and teachers"
Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is Christ who, in the ministry of the Bishop, continues to preach the gospel of salvation and to sanctify the faithful through the sacraments of faith; it is Christ who, in the fatherhood of ...
23 May 2016
VATICAN - The Pope invites to spiritually join Chinese Catholics on May 24
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, May 22, at the end of the Angelus, Pope Francis observed that Tuesday, May 24, the Catholics of China celebrate Mary "Help of Christians", who is venerated in China. Sayi ...
23 May 2016
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Emergency for heavy rains and landslides continue
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll in Sri Lanka following the violent floods which have been ravaging the country for one week continues to increase. We are talking about the heaviest rains recorded in the last twe ...
23 May 2016
AMERICA/CUBA - Mgr. Garcia Rodriguez new Archbishop of Havana: "A more effective dialogue"
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The new Metropolitan Archbishop of Havana, His Exc. Mgr. Juan de la Caridad García Rodriguez, launched an appeal during the Mass which he presided in the Cathedral yesterday, Sunday, May 22, so ...
23 May 2016
AMERICA/CHILE - Nuns leave their cells to meet other women who live behind bars
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nuns came out from their monastic cells to meet other women who live behind prison bars. Seventy-six cloistered nuns from Santiago del Chile, went to meet the prisoners of the Female ...
23 May 2016
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Ndiaye warns: "National dialogue serves the interests of the nation and not those personalistic"
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Do politicians really care to put themselves at the service of the city?" wonders His Exc. Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar and President of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, in respo ...
23 May 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Yet another attack with three victims in the area of Qamishli inhabited by Christians
Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – The terrorist attack carried out in "Miami street", in Wusta district, inhabited mostly by Christians, in the late evening of Saturday, May 21 in the center of Qamishli, Syria's second larges ...
23 May 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - 87-year-old Fr. Peter Meienberg, a Benedictine who helps the prisoners of Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I realised that prisoners needed more than just spiritual nourishment; they were living in very bad environments, and so I set up Faraja Foundation, and through the help of friends and my famil ...
23 May 2016
EUROPE/SPAIN - A market to help refugee children in Lebanon
Siviglia (Agenzia Fides) - Help us to help, is the motto of a trade market organized by the Andalusian Palestino Association for Children, intended to raise funds for eye and ear surgeries regarding children living in re ...
23 May 2016
ASIA/CHINA - The death of Bishop Luke Thomas Zhang Huaixin, zealous and patient Pastor
Jixian (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, May 8, 2016, around noon, His Exc. Mgr. Luke Thomas Zhang Huaixin, Bishop of Jixian (Weíhwei), Henan Province (Mainland China) died. He would have turned 91 on May 23. On May 6 he h ...
23 May 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: after a meeting between Pope Francis and Grand Imam al Tayyib, the Egyptian press announces the resumption of dialogue between the Holy See and al Azhar
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - "In Egypt great importance is given to the meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar: even the most popular newspapers dedicate large space to the event on the front page, and r ...
21 May 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishops: "The government must stop radical Islamic groups and preserve coexistence"
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope the government does its part to stop Islamic radical groups and preserve Indonesia's multicultural and multireligious identity, based on the Pancasila", the "five principles" at the ba ...
21 May 2016
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years ago the Bishops' letter to President Ortega, still unanswered
Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years have gone by since the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) delivered the document "En Búsqueda de Nuevos Horizontes, para una Nicaragua mejor" (Seeking new horizo ...
21 May 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - A hospital boat to give assistance in the most remote places
Macapá (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Camillians continue their health project in the area of the largest river in the world. We are talking about the "Camillians at the mouth of the 'Amazonas", and Fr. Raúl Matte, Camill ...
21 May 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Slovak missionary who was shot and seriously wounded has died
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Sr. Veronica Rackova, a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (SSPS), who was shot and seriously wounded in South Sudan, has died. Sr. Veronica was allegedly shot by Sudan People ...
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