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8 May 2019
AFRICA - To remain true witnesses of life: an imperative for African Christian women
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the great revolutions in the history of Easter was to discover that the people who first brought the message of the resurrection to the world were women. Suddenly they found themselves inve ...
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8 May 2019
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The migration of young Nigerians marks the failure of an entire leadership" accuses Cardinal Onaiyekan
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "If you live in a country where young people tell you that it is better to live elsewhere, this is the sign of the failure of an entire leadership", accuses Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Arc ...
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7 May 2019
AMERICA/ECUADOR - In the face of economic crisis the Bishops call for "a new way of doing politics"
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a new way of doing politics that, beyond particular interests, seeks the common good and promotes a great national pact at the service of citizens": say the Bishops of Ecuador in the stat ...
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7 May 2019
ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II makes donation to Church of the Holy Sepulchre restoration
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - King Abdallah II of Jordan made a donation for restoring of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at his own expense. Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine and Jordan, ...
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7 May 2019
AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops promote the leadership of Catholic women, in view of the elections
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Leadership for Salvation" this is the theme of the course in which 69 women from the eight Catholic dioceses of Malawi took part in recent days. The course was organized by the Bishops' Confer ...
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7 May 2019
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “No to violence; yes to a free and peaceful vote”, the Bishops appeal on the eve of the elections
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Fellow South Africans, brothers and sisters, we beg you in the name of our common humanity and spiritual values to behave peacefully before, during and after the elections", the Bishops of ...
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7 May 2019
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith's appeal: "Let us not allow hatred to triumph
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - We must not let "hatred triumph and must not allow the Easter violence to become an opportunity to polarize society and divide the nation": this is the new appeal launched by Cardinal Malcolm Ra ...
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7 May 2019
AMERICA/HAITI - Gangs kill and terrorize, even blackmail those who carry out humanitarian projects
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights organizations and religious institutions continue to be concerned about the increase in insecurity throughout the country in Haiti, according to a report sent to Fides by loc ...
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6 May 2019
EUROPE /CZECH REP. - Spiritual retreat and new impetus for the animators of Missionary Childhood
Mountain Hatching (Agenzia Fides) - About forty leaders of the Little Mission Club of Bohemia and Moravia gathered in Mountain Hatching in the Krkonoše Mountains for a meeting promoted by the National Director of the Po ...
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6 May 2019
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario to the faithful in Sri Lanka: "We are next to you"
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - "We assure you that we are united with all of you in the sufferings, pains and difficulties you are facing. We pray for all those who have lost their lives, for those who have been injured and for ...
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6 May 2019
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Dialogue on the release of prisoners and the suspension of international sanctions are blocked
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The regime of President Daniel Ortega wants the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy to ask the international community to suspend sanctions against Nicaragua as a condition for continuing d ...
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6 May 2019
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Haifa, more than 5 thousand Christians took part in the traditional procession in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Haifa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5 thousand Christians took part in the traditional procession in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, popularly called Taalat al-Adra, the “Ascent of the Virgin”. Along the route which ...
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6 May 2019
ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims of India: "Concrete and joint aid to the people of Sri Lanka"
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "As Sri Lanka is a country very close to us, together we intend to offer practical help to allow the victims of the Easter attacks to overcome the unprecedented crisis that has devastated their l ...
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6 May 2019
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Mgr. Francisco Lerma Martinez, Bishop of Gurué: a life dedicated to Mission
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "His dynamism, energy, entrepreneurship, liveliness and sense of humor were always a joy that infected and fascinated those who met him", writes to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Pedro José da Silva Louro, ...
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6 May 2019
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "It is necessary to create national unity by managing diversity", says the Bishop of Sokoto
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that the problems in Nigeria have very little to do with the things that we ascribe, but is everything to do with our inability, sheer incapacity to manage diversity. Managing diversity i ...
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