News

• 1 February 2016
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Appointment of the Bishop of Dili Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 January 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Virgilio Do Carmo Da Silva, S.D.B., Provincial Superior of the Salesians in East Timor as Bishop of Dili (East Timor). The newly-elec ...
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  1 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Missionary Symposium, 25 years after COMLA 4, preparations for CAM 5 begin Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Fourth Latin American Missionary Congress (COMLA IV), which was held in Lima, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru have prom ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The whole community in Nguluwe at work to renovate the school Chipata (Agenzia Fides) - The holiday season and the rains which have just begun have not disturbed the renovation of the school in Nguluwe carried out by skilled workers, made available by the Chipata DEBS - District Ed ...
• 1 February 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Emile Descombes, Bishop who taught to have trust in God Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "We remain, whatever happens". These are the words that Father Emile wrote on 8 April 1975 a few days before the entry of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh. Emile was there, among the people wh ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the decision of AU not to send a peacekeeping force: "We are disappointed but we do not lose hope" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the African Union (AU) not to send a peacekeeping force in Burundi was disappointing, but all is not lost" local sources told Agenzia Fides from Burundi, who for security reas ...
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  1 February 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Lessons at the new Catholic Institute of Vietnam begin Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The newborn "Catholic Institute of Vietnam", the first Catholic institution at university level in the country, opens its doors and welcomes its first students in September 2016: is wha ...
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  1 February 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa visits political prisoners Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa, visited the headquarters of the National Police in Ancon, the so-called political prisoners held under the current administration of P ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic professor sentenced for insulting Islam: His students mocked jihadist barbarism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The court of Beni Mazar sentenced a Coptic teacher on charges of insulting Islam, to three years in prison. The episode happened last spring, at a village school in Nasiriyya, near the town of Ben ...
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  1 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli High Court rejects the appeals to stop the "Cremisan Wall" Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli High Court rejected the appeals that had been presented to counter the resumption of the construction of the "wall of division" in the Cremisan Valley. The appeals were presented b ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri: "The assault and the massacre in the village of Dalori is a challenge to the army" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a challenge to the army of Nigeria", says to Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in northern Nigeria, near which lies the village o ...
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  29 January 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Church in Diyarbakir hit during the military offensive against Kurdish positions Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - A Syrian Orthodox church in Diyarbakir, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was damaged during the Turkish military offensive against the positions of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). The damage w ...
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  29 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian dies in prison: an urgent investigation Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Need to proceed with a serious and independent investigation to identify and punish those responsible for the death of Liaqat Masih, a 35-year-old Christian who died following torture and il ...
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  29 January 2016
  AMERICA - REPAM - New radio program to raise awareness of the dangers of climate change Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) is launching a new program: an educational radio program, which allows you to know, understand and find solutions to environmental, social and ecological, ...
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  29 January 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Grigoletto: 35 years of Camillian mission in Burkina Faso, among the poor and terminally ill Turin (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of September I will leave the Camillian Mission in Burkina Faso. After 35 years it is certainly not easy for me to leave Africa, a country I loved very much and where I was loved; a pl ...
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  29 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Our only hope is an intervention on behalf of the international community" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The satellite images confirm what the people of Burundi are finding out on their own" local sources from Burundi told Agenzia Fides, where at least a dozen mass graves containing the bodies o ...