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• 13 May 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A priest and a lay extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist have been killed Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest and a layman of the diocese of Bereina were killed on Sunday, May 4, for reasons which are still unclear, while they were walking in a remote area of the diocese. We are t ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops: "It is time to take action to approve the immigration reform" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The group of Catholic bishops who on April 1, celebrated the Mass in the United States-Mexico border for immigrants who died in the desert (see Fides 02/04/2014), will travel to Campidoglio o ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The number of working children, deprived of education and health care, continues to increase Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - About 12% of the population between 5 and 17 years of age is engaged in different types of work, the most common are window cleaners and shoeshiners. According to a recent study carried ou ...
• 13 May 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Hunger, malnutrition and debts for the population of the "dry zone" Bagan (Agenzia Fides) - The people who live in the so called "dry zone" of Myanmar, which covers 13% of the Country, home to a quarter of the 58 million inhabitants, are experiencing shortage of food and are dying from h ...
• 13 May 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Religious leaders create a Guarantee Commission to monitor the next election Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An Integrity Commission and Electoral Mediation (CIME) to ensure peaceful, free and transparent elections, was announced by the religious leaders in Kinshasa at the end of a four-day seminar or ...
• 13 May 2014
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Oceaneas Bishops assembly: "Reading the signs of times in Oceania" Wellington (Agenzia Fides) - Knowing how to read the signs of times in the Pacific; the relationship between faith and secularism, evangelization; but also the attention towards young people, pastoral planning and natura ...
• 13 May 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Kenya oasis of peace has become a terrorist playground. We need to act", said Cardinal Njue Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "In the past few weeks we have lost many Kenyans through terrorist attacks, road accidents, robberies, suicide and illicit brews and in some cases famine. The influx of guns and other dangerous ...
• 13 May 2014
  AMERICA/HONDURAS -Condemnation of the Church for the murder of children, violence does not stop in the country Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "How sad to hear the news of children who are killed. Authors of these crimes are completely overwhelmed by evil", said Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, ...
• 12 May 2014
  EUROPE/GERMANY-MUNICH - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Monaco as Nat ...
• 12 May 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA N.GUINEA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 January 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People, confirmed Fr. Valentine Gryk, SVD as National Director of the Pontifical Mission ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/CANADA - Cameroonian priest killed in a firefight in Canada Saint Paul (Agenzia Fides) - "Mgr. Paul Terrio, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul in Alberta (Canada) and the Catholic community of Saint Paul, mourn the violent death of Father Gilbert Dasna, of the Congregation of th ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The blasphemy law needs to be amended: demonstration in Punjab Faisalabad ( Agenzia Fides) - The government needs to urgently amend the blasphemy law, which has become "a deadly weapon" for human right defenders, journalists, moderate Muslims, members of religious minorities and oth ...
• 12 May 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Challenges before the elections", the Bishops call the national community to vote in a conscious way Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "With this text we launch an appeal to Brazilians so they themselves express their right to vote in a conscious way": this is what the Archbishop of Aparecida and President of the Conference o ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We are in an open-pit prison held hostage by violent people" denounce the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Republic is an open-pit prison, where freedom of movement and freedom of speech are conditioned" denounces a statement sent to Fides Agency by the Permanent Council of the Ce ...
• 12 May 2014
  AFRICA/GABON - Extreme poverty in a Country with one million and a half inhabitants Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - 30% of the Gabonese population lives below the poverty line. In an African country such data, compared to other countries of the continent, should not cause alarm, however, the number is very ...