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• 12 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Positive comments and controversy over the case of the Ethiopian Christians freed in Libya thanks to the Egyptian intervention Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The recent case of 27 Ethiopian Christians abducted in Libya and released thanks to the decisive involvement of the Egyptian apparatus is arousing positive appraisal regarding the efforts by the E ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia was declared free from Ebola, but MSF warns that the outbreak is not yet over Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, May 9, 2015 after 42 days without a new case of the virus. However, MSF warns that, w ...
• 11 May 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Armendáriz to candidates: "We want proposals rather than promises" Santiago de Queretaro (Agenzia Fides) - "We all want proposals rather than promises. For example, those who promise to build more hospitals, we ask you to support the existing hospitals and give good service to our peopl ...
• 11 May 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lynching in Youhanabad: 47 Christians detained in prison Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Forty-seven Pakistani Christians have been held in prison on charges of being involved in the lynching of two Muslims which occurred after the two suicide attacks against two churches in Youhanab ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops warn: "A Government that cannot protect its own people loses its legitimacy to govern" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Kenyans are worried and desperate. The Government, which swore to protect Kenyans, seems hopelessly incapable of offering permanent solutions to perennial insecurity", said the Kenyan Bishops i ...
• 11 May 2015
  AMERICA/CANADA - First sanctuary in Canada for St. Gianna Beretta Molla: "She is like one of us" Winnipeg (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday many parts of the world celebrated "Mother's Day", but in Canada, in Winnipeg the day of celebration was special because the whole community celebrated the inauguration of the first s ...
• 11 May 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Bishops' Letter for the "Pacific Games": Sport, a tool for growth Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church recognises sport to be one of the great institutions of our society that helps individuals realise their human potential and builds up the bonds of the community, foste ...
• 11 May 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: politics and diplomacy is needed for peace in the Middle East, not military intervention Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East crisis haunts the peoples of Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Yemen who "suffer the violence of war" and "aspire to fair, global and lasting peace". But the advent of peace is only pos ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Salafi leaders: let us close all the churches in the Country Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - We have to close all Christian churches scattered on the Algerian territory, and turn them into mosques, where possible. This is the proposal launched by the Algerian Salafist leader Abdel Fatta ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – There are already more than 50,000 Burundian refugees in neighboring Countries Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Burundi, the protagonist of one of the best reintegration programs for refugees in recent years, sees again part of its population seeking refuge abroad because of the political crisis linked ...
• 8 May 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionary dimension and social problems: meeting of the clergy of Patagonia Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary dimension of the Church, vocations, the bicentenary of the independence of Argentina and the possible visit of Pope Francis in the Country, were the topics of the VI Meeting of ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Erection of the "Don Settimio Ferrazzetta" inter-diocesan Seminary in Bissau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, erected the "Don Settimio Arturo Ferrazzetta" Major Seminary in Bissau, diocese of ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 March 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed rev. George Ajana Olusegun of the diocesan clergy of Ekiti as National Di ...
• 8 May 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew convenes the second Summit of Halki on environment Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, convened the Summit of Halki II on environment and ecology, which from 8 to 10 June will be hosted by the Theological Institu ...
• 8 May 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - One hundred immigrants in one day: the flow does not stop, and mostly affects families McAllen (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the flow of Central American migrants who cross the border has declined compared to last year, this does not mean it has stopped" emphasized the Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville, H ...