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• 16 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The situation is blocked", say local sources Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "In Bujumbura, the situation is relatively calm, but in some neighborhoods one cannot access because of the barricades": say local sources of Agenzia Fides from the capital of Burundi, who for ...
• 15 June 2015
  AMERICA/ANTILLES - Resignation of the Bishop of Hamilton in Bermuda, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 June 2015 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda (Antilles), by His Exc. Mgr. Robert Joseph Kurtz, C.R., in accordance w ...
• 15 June 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Mazatlan’s appeal after the violence perpetrated during the weekend Sinaloa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Mazatlan (Sinaloa, Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. Mario Espinosa Contreras in the face of the climate of violence in recent days, which resulted in the murder of a woman and the disappeara ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Assurance in South Africa: President Bashir will leave", said a spokesman in Khartoum Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been ordered not to leave South Africa by the Pretoria High Court, is still in the country but will leave later on Monday, a Sudanese presidency spoke ...
• 15 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs and Bishops of the Eastern Churches pray together for peace and commemorate the centenary of the "Assyrian Genocide" in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II invited the Patriarchs of Antioch to participate in an ecumenical meeting held on Saturday, June 13, at the end of the Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church celebrate ...
• 15 June 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still controversy over the transoceanic canal; Mgr. Baez "more transparency is needed" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Discussions have started again regarding the draft of the Grand Interoceanic Canal of Nicaragua, intended to connect the Atlantic and Pacific ocean (see Fides 24/11/2014), and this time the them ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Even two Westerners among the Shabaab killed in an assault on a military camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan military announced the killing of 11 Somali militants of Al Shabaab, who were part of a commando of 100 men who in the early hours of Sunday, June 14 attacked a military camp in Lumu, ...
• 15 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian Ambassador to the Holy See: Al Sisi has invited Pope Francis to Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has officially invited Pope Francis to make a visit to Egypt. This is what H. E. Ms. Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt ...
• 13 June 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Thousands of Christian homes taken by deception Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - With the complicity of corrupt officials, individual impostors and organized groups of fraudsters have managed in recent years to acquire illegal possession of thousands of houses belonging to C ...
• 13 June 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A card to distinguish true priests from false priests Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A card for the priests of the ecclesiastical provinces of Tlalnepantla and Mexico will be issued in order to distinguish true priests from false priests and to fight the scams perpetrated by ...
• 13 June 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - National Week of the Migrant: Letter of Bishops to 3 million Peruvians abroad Lima (Agenzia Fides) - During the celebration of the National Week of the Migrant (from 15 to 21 June), the Bishops of Peru, through the commission for human mobility, sent a letter to all the countrymen who are outside ...
• 13 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Still no contact with the kidnappers of the priest kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ekiti has asked the faithful not to enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of Fr. Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict of Ido-Elkit (in south-west Nigeria), seized on ...
• 12 June 2015
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni: "Today the Church in Poland needs to continue on the missionary path" Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Poland today needs to continue on the missionary path, just like Holy Pope John Paul II, who with his 'Redemptoris Missio' gave renewed impetus to the whole Church. And his word an ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Director of the PMS: "Farmers and religious minorities abandoned by the Indian government" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A year after its election, the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has abandoned farmers, the backbone of the Indian economy, and granted a free hand to extremist groups who ...
• 12 June 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are concerned about the new poor", said Mgr. Ojea, head of Caritas Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is concerned about the situation of poverty in the country, after the controversy following the statements of President Cristina Kirchner, according to which the figures indicate ...