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• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Shimoga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2014 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Francis Serrao, S.I., Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in India as Bishop of the Diocese of Shimoga, India. Rev. Fr. Francis ...
• 20 March 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA – Teachers' strike still continues in the capital Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3 million students in the capital are not attending lessons because teachers are still on strike, which began on March 5. The Bishop of the Diocese of Mar del Plata, His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 20 March 2014
  VATICAN - " With the mission in the heart": Cardinal Tomko’s 90th Birthday, for 16 years at Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A big thank you: for all the good carried out in the Church, for Your witness of priestly life, for having celebrated with us this beautiful and meaningful moment of Your life": were the w ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Violence in the valley of M'Zab, Christians pray for peace Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, the M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria has been the scene of sectarian violence base on ethnic-religious conflict that the Algerian security apparatus cannot stop. The clashes r ...
• 20 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA – Dialogue is closer and closer: President Ortega has received the Bishops’ letter Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has received the letter on behalf of the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), which states that the Church is ready to dialogue with ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rainy season is approaching, emergency aid for displaced people is urgently needed" say religious leaders Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here to get everybody to hear the cry that comes from deep in the heart of the Central African people, who are experiencing the most tragic moments of their history. We can no longer rema ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy and attacks against Hindus: the condemnation of Catholic Bishops Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation for an act of intolerance and request to the government to protect the places of worship of any religion: is what is expressed, in a statement sent to Fides, by the "Justice a ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Oblate missionaries: importance to guarantee the respect of human rights in Sri Lanka Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction for the release of the missionary Fr. Praveen Mahesan, OMI, and Ruki Fernando, a priest and an activist who had been stopped by the police on March 16; concern for the perpetuation o ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests and nuns in the most remote villages to help the faithful live Lent Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of priests and religious in villages or in the remotest basic ecclesial communities, especially in inaccessible areas, Community Eucharistic adoration in parishes, charitable ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "the Church is ready to dialogue with the President" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Newly-elected Cardinal José Leopoldo Brenes Solórzano, Archbishop of Managua, said that the Catholic Church is ready to dialogue with President Daniel Ortega only when he decides to sit down w ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai at the Mass for Caritas: the war of attrition in the Country must stop Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders and all those who wish to remain faithful to the Lebanese nation must put "an end to the attrition in the Country, giving confidence in the government in order to relaunch the ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We are very concerned about the growing tensions" says local Church sources to Fides Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the situation of the Country", say local Church sources of Burundi to Fides Agency, where political tension continues unabated since the police suppressed the demo ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Pankshin and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 18, 2014 the Holy Father erected the new Diocese of Pankshin, in Nigeria, with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Jos and the Diocese of Shendam, making it a suffragan of the ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Conclusion of the First Plenary Assembly of CEAST in Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 March, the first Plenary Assembly of 2014 of CEAST concluded, the Episcopal Conference of Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, which for the first time was held in the equatorial archipelago. T ...
• 18 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Elections 2014: the Church asks the newly-elected President for an "attitude of dialogue" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - While the Agencies spread the news of the election of the newly-elected President of El Salvador, candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), Salvador Sanchez Ceren ...