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  15 May 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Thailand for the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, will be on a pastoral visit to Thailand for the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the Apos ...
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  15 May 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Video of Bishops to show the world the dramatic situation in which people live Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "In the difficult situations that our country is experiencing, with the high risk that the citizens have experienced in recent years, the Venezuelan Episcopate has remained in defense of the peo ...
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  15 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Archbishop Rugambwa: "The Church, family of God, excludes all ethnocentrism and promotes reconciliation" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy See is grateful for the many commendable common initiatives you have undertaken and continue to pursue for the promotion of holistic evangelization in the West African Region", sai ...
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  15 May 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops of Kenya ask: "What sort of role models are we?" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Our young people are increasingly descending into depression out of frustration in their lives, either from lack of gainful employment or poor guidance from their families, close friends and co ...
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  15 May 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Security emergency in the Nineveh Plain: two elderly Christian women robbed and beaten up Bartella (Agenzia Fides) - The robbery and violence that two elderly Christian women suffered at home in the Nineveh Plain by an armed group have become political "cases", causing the controversy over the lack of securit ...
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  14 May 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop Mata Guevara: "dialogue is blocked, no political prisoners have been released, there is no will to resolve the crisis" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - "We have said several times: this regime does not have the political will to reach an agreement for the good of the country. For the regime, the people are only the small group that supports it. ...
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  14 May 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest killed by a Christian guard Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Makad Saad was the name of the Coptic Orthodox priest killed on Monday 13 May in front of the church of San Marco in Al-Wahda district of the Egyptian city of Shubra al-Khaymah, in the province of ...
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  14 May 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Catholic parish attacked, parish priest wounded. Sahel Christian communities increasingly at risk Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, May 13, unidentified people attacked the parish of Dolbel, belonging to the diocese of Niamey, which is located about 200 km from Niamey, in the Songhay-Zerma area. This is what missio ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Brambillasca re-elected Superior General of PIME Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I communicate that the participants in the XV General Assembly of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.), re-elected St. Matthias the Apostle, Father Ferruccio Brambillasca, Supe ...
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  14 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Another attack against Catholics: 4 faithful killed at the end of a procession; statue of the Virgin destroyed Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - New attack against Catholics in Burkina Faso. On May 13, four faithful who were bringing the statue of the Virgin back to church after participating in a Marian procession were killed in Sin ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Academic Act at San Damaso University: Archbishop Dal Toso’s report on "Church and mission" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Church and mission: a fruitful relationship" was the theme of the academic Act which took place this morning at San Damaso University in Madrid, organized by the Chair of Missionology of the Fac ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - For the first time an Italian Superior General of the Society for African Missions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Society for African Missions SMA has elected its new Superior General, who will guide the international institute for the next 6 years. For the first time he is an Itali ...
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  14 May 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - The war is not over. Christian villages hit along the new "front line" Hama (Agenzia Fides) - Artillery and missiles fired by rebel militias on the Syrian town of Al-Sqaylabiyeh, in the governorate of Hama, mostly inhabited by Orthodox Christians, also continued on Monday 13 May. On Sunday ...
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  13 May 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - One of seven innocent Christians, accused in Orissa, released New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of India granted bail to Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven innocent Christians languishing in jail for a decade due to the alleged murder of a local Hindu religious leader ...
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  13 May 2019
  AMERICA - CELAM Assembly begins, the Spanish Bible of the Church in America has been completed Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - From today until May 18, the Ordinary General Assembly of CELAM gathers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to discern "the signs of the times" posed by the reality of Latin America and the Caribbean a ...