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18 June 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - Interfaith prayer for Father Maccalli in Niamey
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "After nine months of Father Pierluigi Maccalli’s absence, there was the first common moment of prayer with the Muslim leaders of the capital": says Father Mauro Armanino, priest of the Society ...
18 June 2019
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Habla Quibdó": media will make itself available to communities to talk about violence and problems
Quibdó (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 19 June, from 7 to 10 am, the social media of Quibdó and the community will be the main protagonists of the "Habla Quibdó" campaign, which aims to open spaces so that people can c ...
18 June 2019
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Islamic State in the east of the DRC; the concern of local bishops
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There is also the mysterious Islamic State in the Province of Central Africa among the armed groups that rage in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose violent actions are at t ...
18 June 2019
AMERICA MEXICO - Shooting in Church, catechist killed; the Bishops reaffirm their commitment to building peace
Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - A catechist instructor was shot dead in the municipality of Acacoyagua, in a chapel in Chiapas state - another example of how the violence consuming Mexico is impacting the Catholic Church. The ...
17 June 2019
AMERICA/MEXICO - The unpunished killings of priests, considered "social stabilizers" that disturb organized crime
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Catholic Multimedia Center (CCM), violence against priests is not a direct expression of hatred of faith, but a desire for "social destabilization". "The priest and parish c ...
17 June 2019
EUROPE/ITALY - To pray and hope: prayer vigil and march for the release of Father Gigi Maccalli
Crema (Agenzia Fides) - Another long month of silence passed from the night between 17 and 18 September 2018 in which Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions (SMA), was kidnapped in Niger. ...
17 June 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Migration and public policies": 34th National Migrant Week
San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - The 34th Migrant Week began yesterday, Sunday, June 16, throughout the country, which will end on Sunday 23. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, the theme of the week is as always ...
17 June 2019
ASIA/TURKEY - Luys TV inaugurated, first Turkish-Armenian TV station launched in Turkey
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Luys in Armenian means "light". "Luys TV" is the first television channel in Armenian and Turkish, inaugurated in recent days in Turkey. Turkish Armenian journalist Aram Kuran, the station’s c ...
17 June 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - A Christian church set on fire in Maradi
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In the night between Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June, in Maradi, the third largest city in Niger, a group of protesters demonstrating against the arrest of a prominent local imam set a Protestant ...
17 June 2019
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Week of prayer and action for asylum seekers: the Church calls for a fair trial and integration
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "We invite everyone to participate in the 'National Week of Prayer and Action' (16-22 June) which this year coincides with both the 'Refugee Week' and the first 100 days of the newly elected gove ...
17 June 2019
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: violence has reached terrifying levels, people are afraid to denounce
Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - For almost two years he has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura in Colombia, and he has already had to deal with violent groups that have sown terror in the area.
Archbishop Rub ...
14 June 2019
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops ask the authorities to intervene: Two young people kidnapped and killed in a few days
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent times we have experienced situations of great violence that have been a real ordeal for citizens and for many families in different parts of the country": says the Bishops’ Conf ...
14 June 2019
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas launches sustainable agriculture project: it will provide livelihood and professional training
Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The construction of the two greenhouses in Almaty and Talgar has been completed. This means that we are about to start the operational phase of the sustainable agriculture project. The first asp ...
14 June 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - Boko Haram threaten Christians in Diffa. "Real news, but there is no mass flight of the faithful"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians have been threatened but there is no mass flight of the faithful" says Mgr. Anthony Coudjofio, Vicar General of Niamey to Agenzia Fides, to whom we asked if it is true that the Christ ...
14 June 2019
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Sri Lankan government establishes a Council for reconciliation between religions
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will establish a special "Council for reconciliation between religions", with the aim of building interreligious coexistence in society and avoid ...
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