News

• 20 April 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - 50 years of the Don Orione Work in Ivory Coast Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Don Orione Work celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first missionaries in Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It was Father Angelo Mugnai who was the first to reach Bonua in 197 ...
• 20 April 2021
  EUROPE/GREECE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Alexandros Perros Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Alexandros Perros, of the Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Ti ...
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  20 April 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Thai Catholics help Karen displaced people fleeing Myanmar Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A great commitment by the Church in Thailand is underway to rescue, welcome and help refugees fleeing Myanmar who hide in the forest near the Thanlyin River, which marks the border between Th ...
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  20 April 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - March for justice and blessing of the new Chapel of the martyrs to commemorate the Easter massacres Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "We invoke God and call on the government for justice. Tomorrow church bells across the nation will ring to commemorate the victims of the attacks of April 21, 2019, when terrorists committed a ...
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  20 April 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "It is urgent to work together to find solutions to current emergencies, there is no time for divisions!" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their plenary Assembly, the Mexican bishops published a message addressed "to our beloved Mexican people". Divided into three points, it begins with a look at the current situa ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The press announces the release of one of the kidnapped on Sunday, April 11 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the people kidnapped in Haiti last Sunday was reportedly released. Since then, there has been no further news from the kidnappers. A total of nine people are still held hostage", ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic San José (Agenzia Fides) - Next Thursday, April 22, the bishops of Costa Rica invite its faithful to pray in order to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. During the Holy Mass and the Hours of Adoration, Catholics of the ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop of Asunción appeals to pharmaceutical companies: "It is not the time to make money at the expense of the sick" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not the time for speculation in order to earn money at the expense of the sick", said Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asunción in an interview with a local newspaper about the diffi ...
• 19 April 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Humanitarian situation is increasingly alarming; the Bishops "Perspectives should be given to young people to stop the war" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that 11,104 people (1,452 families) who fled the city of Palma (see Fides, 27/3/2021) have been welcomed in a school in Quitunda. This was stated by the International Organization ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The era of hope: the new Burmese government of national unity, in opposition to the military junta Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "An era of fear and division ends and an era of hope begins". A time, says Salai Maung Taing San, spokesman for the newly formed "Burmese National Unity Government", in which "there will be no m ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A "year of grace" for the diocese of Nha Trang, in the footsteps of Cardinal Van Thuan Nha Trang (Agenzia Fides) - He is a spiritual son and a successor of the former Bishop of the diocese of Nha Trang, Venerable Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who greatly influenced his priestly life and his epi ...
• 19 April 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - After the Bishops, the Jesuits also say "No to the closure of the reception camps" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "JRS reaffirms the appeal from the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops and recommends that the Government of Kenya exert maximum forethought and caution in this particular time of uncertainty, ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Coronavirus pandemic: Election of the new Assyrian patriarch postponed due to new wave of infections Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The new wave of infections, which also affects Iraq and the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, has resulted in the election of the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East being postponed to a l ...
• 17 April 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Violence in the east of the country: the statistics hide innocent victims Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "These are arid numbers that hide people, innocent victims", said the Congo Peace Network, promoted by missionaries operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in a commentary on repor ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In all ten dioceses of the country, Catholics in Haiti held special masses on Thursday April 15 to show their solidarity with the victims of kidnappings. In the parish of Saint-Pierre in ...