News

• 23 December 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Year of Mercy in the prisons in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "After the initiative of Patrizia Lavaselli to bring the pictures of women who are in the maximum security prison in Zomba to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, this new adventure is something t ...
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  22 December 2015
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Despite ambitious infrastructure projects, the Country remains poor Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda has recorded one of the highest growth rates in Africa despite being a Country without large mineral resources and has always lived from the export of agricultural products. Sadly fam ...
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  22 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Rivers flood, hundreds of families evacuated Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The flood of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers have caused the displacement of 500 Argentine families. According to official sources, in the city of Concordia 160 families were forced to leave ...
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  22 December 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua and Costa Rica welcome the Pope's call for better ties Managua (Agenzia Fides) – During the Angelus on Sunday, December 20, the Holy Father expressed his support to the efforts of collaboration between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, hoping that "a renewed spirit of fraternity w ...
• 22 December 2015
  AMERICA/SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES - Appointment of the Bishop of Kingstown Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2015 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Gerard County C.S.Sp., former Provincial Superior of the PP. Spiritans in Mexico as Bishop of the Diocese of Kingstown (Saint Vincent and t ...
• 22 December 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The 641 newly baptized of the year open the door of Mercy of Xi Kai Cathedral Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - 641 newly baptized in 2015, together with the parish community of Xi Kai Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin, opened the door of Mercy on December 13. According to information sent to Agenzia ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: we do not accept Christmas greetings from those who have abandoned us Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - During the pre-Christmas retreat for priests and deacons of the Chaldean Archieparchy in Baghdad, held on Monday, December 21 in Baghdad in the presence of Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I, th ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical Christmas: Christians called to be "leaven for peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus Christ was born during the reign of King Herod who ordered to kill all newborn babies. Today there are many 'Herods' who hate and kill: it is our task to spread the message of life, becaus ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Christian villages bombarded by jihadists Hama (Agenzia Fides) - At least two civilians were killed and another twenty injured by grenades on Monday, December 21 by anti-regime jihadist fighters against the villages of Maharda and Sqelbyia, in the province of Ha ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - New church among the ruins in Damascus: "a Christmas of Resurrection" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of ruins and destruction, after three years of war, a new Maronite church will rise in Damascus. It will be inaugurated on January 8, in the district of Kachkoul, on the east outsk ...
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  22 December 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops' appeal to the country:"Christmas is an opportunity to become instruments of reconciliation, justice and peace" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to all Colombian people, and in particular to rulers, "to be authentic instruments of reconciliation, justice and peace", was launched by the Bishops in their Christmas message. In the ...
• 22 December 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Muslim Passengers protect Christians from the Shabaab: "a very positive thing" says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a very good thing; a concrete sign that Kenyan Muslims are against violence", says His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alexander, Bishop of Garissa, in north-eastern Kenya, on the border with Somalia, i ...
• 22 December 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two priests kidnapped in the Delta State have been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic priests, Fr. Franklyn Odiaka and Fr. Moses Nwaonwochei, who had been kidnapped on December 18 in Obior, in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, southern Nigeria have be ...
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  21 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - President Assad's visit to a Catholic church on the outskirts of Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the Melkite Catholic parish of Our Lady of Damascus, in the Damascene district of al Qussur, with his wife Asma. Of the presidential visit, which took p ...
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  21 December 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Birth of the Union of female religious Orders in Indonesia Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - The Union of Superiors General (UISG) brings together 17 religious congregations in Indonesia. As reported to Fides, in the recent meeting in Bandung, the religious elected Sister Veronica Manaa ...