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30 November 2015
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Waiting for yesterday’s election results
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Burkina Faso is waiting for the results of the first round of presidential and legislative elections which took place yesterday, 29 November. The elections are the first since the former Pre ...
30 November 2015
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishop of Bangassou:"Pope Francis managed to leave all Central Africans with a smile"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Seeing the Pope's smile at the time of his departure for Rome filled us with joy", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou commenting on the Holy Fathe ...
30 November 2015
AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 30 dead in a new attack of jihadists of the ADF in North Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 30 people have died and several wounded: is the provisional toll of the clashes between the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the guerrillas of the group of Ugandan ...
30 November 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Inauguration of the "multipurpose room" of the Catholic parish in Gaza
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - A multipurpose room has been completed in the Catholic parish in Gaza, which now can be used as space equipped to meet the diverse needs of the local community. The room, equipped with a large stag ...
30 November 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: during Advent let us pray for the liberation of Mosul
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In all the Chaldean churches in the world, during Advent and during the daily celebrations, the faithful will pray to invoke the gift of liberation of Mosul and the entire Nineveh Plain, and ask ...
27 November 2015
EUROPE/ITALY - The death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, for over half a century director of Cuamm
Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "Sad, but with the serenity that comes from the fulfillment of a long life devoted to others, we announce the death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, director of Doctors with Africa-Cuamm 1955-2008". Th ...
27 November 2015
VATICAN - Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: missionary awareness and young Churches 50 years after the Ad Gentes Decree
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, November 30 at 9 am, the XIX Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP) begins at the John Paul II Auditorium of the Pontifical Urbaniana Univ ...
27 November 2015
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Bà Ria
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 November 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Emmanuel Nguyen Hong Son, Vicar general of the same diocese as Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Bà Ria (Vietnam).
The new Coadjutor wa ...
27 November 2015
AMERICA/CANADA - Appointment of the Bishop of Whitehorse
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 November 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Héctor Vila, Rector of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Toronto as Bishop of the Diocese of Whitehorse (Canada).
The newly-elected Bish ...
27 November 2015
ASIA/INDONESIA - Moratorium on the death penalty: appreciation of civil society and the Church
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has declared a moratorium on executions. According to observers, the decision was taken for economic reasons, given that several countries had feared a reduction of trade relations wit ...
27 November 2015
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops appeal for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Australia are opposed to death penalty and have asked to abolish it throughout the world, making themselves available to contribute effectively to this goal: as Fides learns, this ...
27 November 2015
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - For the Bishops: to encourage gambling addiction "is a crime against the poorest"
Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the possible imminent opening of a "bingo" club, already built in the area of Puente la Noria, in the district of Lomas de Zamora in Buenos Aires, and after having informed th ...
27 November 2015
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "Stop shedding the blood of the Congolese"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We must stop shedding the blood of the Congolese" write the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo in their message issued at the end of the Permanent Committee of the Conférence Episcop ...
27 November 2015
AFRICA/KENYA - The greetings of a resident in Kibera to Pope Francis: "I am proud to live in an informal settlement"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I am proud to live in an informal settlement that I call home", said Pamella Akwede, a resident in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, in her speech in front of Pope Francis, during a meeting held in ...
26 November 2015
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tension in the capital, Cardinal Urosa: "State officials must ask for peace"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, urged all political parties to prepare themselves to respect the results of the forthcoming parliamentary elections on 6 December. The cou ...
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