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15 April 2016
AFRICA/CAMEROON - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Manfred Ejong Nokwe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 24, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Manfred Ejong Nokwe, of the diocesan clergy in Mamfe as Nationa ...
15 April 2016
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops invite the State to listen to the demands of farmers
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) has requested the presence of the State alongside farmers, the promotion of programs to prevent the uprooting of families and highlighted the strength ...
15 April 2016
AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops' message: "Christians cannot relinquish their participation in politics"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the General Assembly of Bishops of Brazil (see Fides 07/04/2016), the president of the Bishops' Conference (CNBB), the Archbishop of Brasilia, His Exc. Mgr. Sergio da Rocha ...
15 April 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church establishes a committee to monitor the changes of Christian property ownership
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate has announced the creation of an hoc committee to monitor sales and transfers of property ownership - houses and land - belonging to Christian citizens in Baghdad. The ...
15 April 2016
AFRICA/UGANDA - "The Ghetto Kids": street dance to remove children from violence
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - A group of street children in Kampala has formed "The Ghetto kids". All together they dance and do choreography that are already proving to be very popular on the net.
Through dance, the child ...
15 April 2016
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Half a million children in conditions of neglect
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - At present there are 500,000 children and adolescents in the age group between 0 and 17 years, living without any family ties completely left on their own in Ecuador. This is what emerges from a s ...
15 April 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem: Israel behaves as a theocratic State
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israel, "although it proclaims itself a secular and democratic State, it is really behaving more and more like a denominational Jewish military regime". This is how the Latin Patriarch of Jeru ...
15 April 2016
AFRICA/MALAWI - Food disaster, but "the real crisis will be in June" says a missionary
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of June will lead to an unprecedented food crisis" foresees Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfort missionary, who sent a note to Agenzia Fides on the dramatic food situation in Malawi.
"Ba ...
15 April 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Faisalabad, the Church nurtures ecumenism and interreligious dialogue
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ecumenism and interreligious dialogue are fundamental steps of life, essential in a country like Pakistan: this is what emerged from the recent interreligious meeting held in the diocese of F ...
15 April 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: a rosary a day, until the elections
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Reminding the faithful of the power of prayer, the Filipino Bishops urge the faithful to pray the rosary every day until the elections of May 9. "Pray the mysteries of joy, light, sorrow and glor ...
15 April 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - Mass in Nairobi for the 4 Mother Teresa sisters killed in Yemen
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The religious men and women belonging to various congregations and orders in Kenya will remember the four Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen at a Eucharistic celebration this Saturday on Ap ...
14 April 2016
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Vera against suspected alms: "Money, the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience"
Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "Money must never be washed, because the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience", said His Exc. Mgr. José Raúl Vera López, OP. Bishop of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), during the ...
14 April 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest’s body found hanging in Karnataka
Mysore (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a parish of Mysore diocese, in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India. The lifeless body of Fr. Raja Kannu, 56, was found ha ...
14 April 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly half of minors and adolescent workers receive no remuneration
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), at a national level, the last quarter of 2015, 47.1% of the population in the age group between 5 to 1 ...
14 April 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in the Nineveh Plain demonstrate in Erbil: Kurdish fixers have expropriated our lands
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, April 13 several hundred Christian Syrians, Chaldeans and Assyrians, from the region of Nahla, in the northern Iraqi province of Dohuk, organized a protest demonstration in front o ...
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