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• 16 May 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Nomination of Bishop of Calicut and Apostolic Administrator of Kannur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 15 May 2012, named His Excellency, Msgr. Varghese Chakkalakal, Bishop of the diocese of Calicut (India) until now Bishop of Kannur and, at the same time, ...
• 16 May 2012
  ASIA/ LAOS - Forbidden to pray at home and put crucifixes on the walls Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – It is forbidden to pray at home; crucifixes must be taken down and removed from the external walls of the houses of Christians: this is an order from the authorities in the district of Phi ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC- Appointment of the Archbishop of Bangui Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 14, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.S.p., Apostolic Administrator of the same Archdiocese as Archbishop of Bangui (Central African Re ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of the Bishop of Berberati Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 14, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M.A., Regional Superior of the Fathers of the Society of African Missions in the Central African Re ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of the Bishop of Bossangoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 14, 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Nestor-Désiré-Nongo Aziagbia, S.M.A., Superior of the Community of Haguenau in Strasbourg, France, and Superior of the same ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC- Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Alindao Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 14, 2012 appointed Rev. Cyr-Nestor Yapaupa, of the clergy of Alindao, Vicar General of the same Diocese as Coadjutor Bishop of Alindao (Central Africa). ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The celebrations for the 500 years of the foundation of the first American diocese Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Primate Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, presided on Sunday, May 13 the celebration for the 42nd Eucharistic Meeting of Panama, as the initial par ...
• 15 May 2012
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Deacon and midfielder: a life for Jesus, in church, and on the football field Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Faith in Christ and his gospel are always "the rock for his life", both within the walls of a church, and on the grass of a football field: Christian Sieland, 32 years of age, a seminarian ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Against human trafficking, a scourge that affects more than 6 000 people only in Ecuador Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Every year about 800 000 people around the world are victims of human trafficking, a growing business that is based on slavery, deceit or violence, said Hiroshima Villalba, Undersecretary to the d ...
• 15 May 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong to the 800 newly baptized: formation, witness and mutual support to rekindle the faith in the family of the Church Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Formation and the testimony of faith, mutual support to rekindle the faith in the family of the Church, in the footsteps of the first Christian communities: is the encouragement of Cardinal ...
• 15 May 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Communist and rebel" nuns, the army accuse the religious engaged in Mindanao Davao City (Agenzia Fides) - Two Philippines religious women, committed to peace, defence of the indigenous peoples and the natural heritage of Mindanao, have been accused by the military of being "communists and rebels, ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Negotiation stalemate in Bamako while in the north people’s impatience increase caused by the harassment of Islamist Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – People are waiting for the appointment of the new President of the transition in Mali. "The mediators of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) were in Bamako for 5 days, but fa ...
• 15 May 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The drama of the deportees, refugees and displaced persons in Southern Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - As Sudan and South Sudan remain on a war footing, tens of thousands of southern Sudanese expelled from Khartoum are coming to Juba, because devoid of residence permits. On May 14, the first group ...
• 15 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Radical Islamic groups fanning the conflict that plagues Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Radical Islamic Groups are fanning the conflict and want to infect Lebanon: this is the alarm launched to Fides by Fr. Paul Karam, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon ...
• 15 May 2012
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children should not continue to die or remain disabled because of hunger Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – It is unacceptable that children die or remain disabled because of hunger. This is what emerges in a document released by the Archdiocese of Mexico, which is based in Mexico City, which pr ...