News

• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Explosions in Bujumbura; in Nairobi Burundian opponents threatened with death Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A strong explosion occurred near a Catholic convent in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. The incident occurred yesterday, January 4. "We do not know well what happened", refer to Agenzia Fides lo ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Dhiya Azziz released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, January 4 the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land released a short statement confirming Fr. Dhiya Azziz OFM, a Franciscan friar, who disappeared on 23 December, has no ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims: Christmas as a "seed of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting where to talk, celebrate, confront oneself on the theme of christmas starting from the Bible and the Koran: was the successful event organized by the Council for Interre ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Jesuit Refugee Service: it is urgent to address the "educational emergency" of Syrian children Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school as a result of the war, 550,000 of whom are in Lebanon. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) center in Jbeil serves nearly 500 Syrian refuge ...
• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Presidential elections: two-thirds of the candidates denounce fraud and call for the suspension of the counting of votes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty of the 30 candidates in the presidential elections held on 30 December in the Central African Republic (see Fides 29/12/2015) yesterday, January 4, asked to stop the counting of votes, den ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese PMS Director: Saudi execution of Imam al-Nimr has catastrophic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The sentencing to death of Shiite Imam Nimr Bakr al-Nimr, commissioned by the Saudi government on January 2, "has as immediate effect the worsening of the Lebanese institutional crisis, but its c ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Martyrs in Orissa: Cardinal Gracias says "yes" Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), wants the Churc ...
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  4 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar accuses the Coptic Church of inspiring anti-Islamic television programs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The accusations launched by the al-Azhar Observatory against the Coptic Church with regards to anti-Islamic television programs broadcast by the channels of the NileSat platform were rejected by t ...
• 4 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops are committed to promoting dialogue in view of the 2016 election deadline Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are committed to fostering dialogue among political parties and civil society in view of the 2016 election deadline. This was stated by Don Léon ...
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  30 December 2015
  VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2015 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The wake of pastoral workers killed in this historic phase of humanity reveals an unprecedented upsurge. It seems to have no equal in the history, because it is an ongoing globalized persec ...
• 29 December 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Erection of the Diocese of Barisal and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 29, 2015 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh, with territory taken from the Diocese of Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dh ...
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  29 December 2015
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Expulsion of Cubans begins, still no solution to the problem of migrants San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - There are 56 Cubans ready to be expelled from Costa Rica to Havana as a result of new immigration measures adopted in this country, according to the National Bureau for Migration. On December 1 ...
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  29 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church, a meeting place for dialogue: more than 10,000 participate in the "oil march" Comodoro (Agenzia Fides) - More than ten thousand people attended the march yesterday morning in the city of Comodoro which was convened by the Trade Union of the oil industry to draw attention on the situation of worker ...
• 29 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The testimony of a Bishop to Fides: Boko Haram attacks Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The terrorists of Boko Haram arrived in the afternoon of December 27 in different areas of Maiduguri, introducing themselves in some homes and killing the inhabitants, while in other areas they s ...