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• 24 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Salvadorans commemorate the assassination of Mgr. Romero, in view of his beatification San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Salvadorans today commemorate 34 years since the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on 24 March 1980. The commemorative celebrations already s ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Arab Spring" was actually a winter Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called Arab Spring in reality "was not a spring or even an autumn, it was a winter". With this judgment without appeal Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II rejected any globally positive i ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The fundamentalists that strike Christians also threaten the local Imam", said the apostolic administrator of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know who committed the attack against the Evangelical church, but most probably it was committed by a group of fundamentalists", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Emanuel Barbara, Bis ...
• 24 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Heads of Churches to all Christians: let us participate in the elections Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Christian Church-Leaders of Iraq, an organization that brings together all the leaders of different Christian denominations in the Middle Eastern Country - has issued a brief pron ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 250 Congolese refugees drown while trying to return home from Uganda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 250 Congolese refugees were killed during the overturning of a boat that was bringing them back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a note sent to Fides Agency by the Co ...
• 24 March 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Pierre for the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Veracruz: "Re-launch evangelization" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop Christopher Pierre, presided over the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Veracruz (Mexico), and during the celebr ...
• 21 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY – 24 March, Day of Missionary Martyrs: like them, we are all "witnesses" of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Founded in 1993 by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies, on the anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (Marc ...
• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The new Muslim mayor: I want the Annunciation to be proclaimed a civic feast in Nazareth Nazareth (Agenzia Fides ) - "It is my greatest desire that the Feast of the Annunciation is proclaimed a civic official holiday for all Nazareth". This is what the new mayor of Nazareth, the Muslim Ali Sallam said in a r ...
• 21 March 2014
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishop of Chimbote obligated to special security measures Chimbote (Agenzia Fides ) - For the high rate of insecurity in the region of Ancash (500 kilometers north of the capital of Peru), the Ministry of Interior has organized adequate security measures for the Bishop of the D ...
• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "Do justice": the Indian Church next to the weakest Patna ( Agenzia Fides) - The defense of the rights of the most vulnerable is a priority for the Church: is what His Exc. Mgr. William D' Souza, Archbishop of Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar said during a ...
• 21 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The government announces the "carrot and stick" approach to defeat Boko Haram: "it should have been used before", said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of theories, we want concrete results", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, afte ...
• 21 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops, missionaries, believers from all over the country: we want peace! Margarita (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church will always be ready to act as a mediator, to work and above all to continue to contribute to peace: is what was said by the Bishop of the Diocese of Margarita, His Exc. Mg ...
• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Award to the Islamic movement for dialogue "Silsilah" in Southern Philippines Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The movement for Islamic-Christian dialogue "Silsilah" which began in the southern Philippines by PIME missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, won the first prize of "World Interfaith Harmony ...
• 21 March 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Emergency in Ethiopia for tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 72,000 and 100,000 South Sudanese refugees who have fled to the western Ethiopian region of Gambella, according to estimates by some humanitarian organizations operating in ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Resignation of the Bishop of Alindao and successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2014, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Alindao, Central African Republic, by His Exc. Mgr. Peter Marzinkowski, C.S.Sp., i ...