News

• 15 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Resignation of the Bishop of Bururi and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bururi, Burundi, presented by Bishop Venant Bacinoni. The Pope has appointed as bishop of the same dio ...
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  15 February 2020
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Coronavirus: Masses and meetings suspended indefinitely in the Archdiocese of Singapore Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), the Archdiocese of Singapore has decided to suspend the celebration of all Masses on Sunday and weekdays from February 15th until ...
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  15 February 2020
  VATICAN - "Cordial meeting" between Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Munich (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, met in Munich and had a talk yesterday aft ...
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  15 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New tools of discernment for animation, formation and missionary cooperation on the continent Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The first Continental Formation Meeting for professors of Missionology and Ecclesiology is taking place in Mexico City, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) (see Fid ...
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  15 February 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Three hundred young people from Concepción on a mission to share their faith and their hope Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - About 300 young people from the Chilean Archdiocese of Concepción carried out summer missions in various communities in January and February, in support of the pastoral action that takes pl ...
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  14 February 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Let's free ourselves from indifference and media sensationalism, let's look at the distressing reality of the natives Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to look, in the light of the newly published Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia, at "the distressing reality that indigenous and even Creole peoples of the Argentine Chaco ...
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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Parliament recognizes and condemns the Armenian Genocide Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Syrian people, in the session of Thursday 13 February, unanimously approved a resolution that recognizes as "Genocide" the historical tragedy of the massacres of Armenians p ...
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  14 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An "outgoing continent": Missiologists' Seminar, PMS continental assembly and launch of CAM 6 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Three important events are taking place in Mexico City these days, which concern the pastoral and missionary conversion of the Church on the American continent in the perspective of Pope Fra ...
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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church renews its commitment to dialogue for social harmony Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in India is committed and will continue to commit itself to promoting dialogue and social harmony, also and above all in the midst of conflicts or social and political crises: says ...
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  14 February 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres in Ituri Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Massacres continue in general indifference in Ituri, in the province of North Kivu, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, attributed to the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces). Acco ...
• 14 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" philosophical seminary in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 April 2019 Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" inter-diocesan major philosophical Sem ...
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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Aid to religious minorities and Dalits from the government of Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the state of Orissa, led by Prime Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik, has allocated 16 million Indian rupees (over 200 thousand euros) as a special contribution to religious and ...
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  13 February 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The commitment of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate for the promotion of women Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Daughters of Mary Immaculate Sisters (DMI) are seriously committed to promoting the life of women in Port Moresby. Over the past year, women religious have carried out projects to impro ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Coronavirus: public Masses and Ash Wednesday liturgy suspended Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, the diocese in Hong Kong has decided to suspend all public Masses for two weeks. "The next two weeks will be a crucial time to suppress the ...
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  13 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The President has brought Nigeria to the brink" accuses the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No one could have imagined that in winning the Presidency, General Buhari would bring nepotism and clannishness into the military and the ancillary Security Agencies, that his government would be ...