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• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 28, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation by His Exc. Mgr. Theotonius Gomes, C.S.C., titular Bishop of Zucchabar, in accordance with canons 411 and 401 § 1 of the Code of ...
• 25 April 2014
  VATICAN - Fr. Szmydki, OMI, Secretary-General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April 3, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed Fr. Ryszard Szmydki, of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Malaria: Each year more than a million people die, mostly in Africa Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Today April 25, the World Day Against Malaria is celebrated, a disease that annually kills over one million people, 75% are African children. Every 30 seconds one of them dies. Mothers are also a ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - An interactive documentary explores the living hell in Bangladesh's clothing industry Savar (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh which caused the death of over 1100 local ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Annual Workshop of Caritas: Communicate to evangelize Cheongju (Agenzia Fides ) - "Caritas communication with the world" was the theme of the three-day Annual Workshop for the Staff Members of Caritas, sponsored by the CBCK Caritas Committee and Caritas Cheongju of the Dioc ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA - President of SECAM: "Africans have to rely greatly on their own human material resources" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The economic and political development in Africa is related to the integral development of the people living on the continent. Most Rev. Gabriel Mbilingi, Archbishop of Lubango (Angola) and Preside ...
• 25 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Aid does not reach those who need it", complains a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides ) - "Aid does not reach those who need it", said Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary who has been working in Bozoum (a town in the northern Central African Republic), who talks about how fun ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Turks also celebrate St. John XXIII Istanbul (Agenzia Fides ) - "Angelo Roncalli loved this country. He was apostolic Delegate in Turkey from 1935 to 1944 and his sentence 'I love the Turks' has been carved in the historical memory of the Turkish people". ...
• 25 April 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Nepal and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal (Nepal) by His Exc. Mgr. Anthony Francis Sharma, S.I., in accord ...
• 24 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young Christian killed because he refused to convert to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Easter mourning and pain for the Christian community in Lahore: Haroon, called Sunny, a young 22-year-old Christian was killed by a young Muslim because he refused to convert to Islam. The incide ...
• 24 April 2014
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Rector of the "Holy Cross" interdiocesan Seminary in Auckland Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 24, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Brendan Peter Ward, of the clergy of the Diocese of Dunedin as Re ...
• 24 April 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Emmaus Spirituality Centre" interdiocesan preparatory Seminary in Lusaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Shoba Nyanbe, of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice ...
• 24 April 2014
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Pilgrimage on foot for the 80th anniversary of evangelization in the highlands of Papua Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - A 15-day pilgrimage to thank God for the arrival of the Good News in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea: this is how the Archdiocese of Mount Hagen recalled the arrival of the first m ...
• 24 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rebels wanted to kill me", says the Bishop of Bossangoa kidnapped by the rebels, who murdered a priest in his diocese Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A great misfortune, that led me to the east area of my diocese": this is how His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop of Bossangoa (in the north of the Central African Republic) desc ...
• 24 April 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Director of Caritas Jerusalem: the people celebrate the reconciliation among Palestinian political forces Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - "The people here are all happy, and the Palestinians of Gaza are even happier than us". This is how the Catholic Palestinian priest Raed Abusahlia, General Director of Caritas Jerusalem describ ...