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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 ...
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  13 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Today the funeral of Fr. Siméon Yampa and five faithful killed in the attack during Sunday Mass Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Siméon Yampa was a humble person, obedient and full of love, he loved his parishioners", writes His Exc. Mgr. Théophile Nare, Bishop of Kaya in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, on t ...
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  13 May 2019
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - With the first group of “small missionaries”, Missionary Childhood is born in Romania Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Historic event for the Pontifical Missionary Childhood, which on May 18th will see the first group of Romanian children join the Society. The day of celebration for the inauguration of Mission ...
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  13 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Unity and solidarity to overcome religious extremism Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the entire population of Burkina Faso find themselves in a condition of extreme suffering. Terrorism and religious extremism are growing, priests are being killed, Christians ...
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  13 May 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - National mourning for the death of Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon mourns the death of Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Patriarch Emeritus of Antioch of the Maronites, who died on Sunday 12 May at the age of 99. The Lebanese government has proclaimed tw ...
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  10 May 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Holy masses resume and Catholic schools reopen Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic schools in Sri Lanka will reopen on May 14, after the closure established for security reasons following the Easter attacks that killed 258 people and injuring about 500 people. This wa ...