News

• 17 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Nearly 900 people killed in the West in clashes among communities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 900 people were massacred in four villages in community violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), between 16 and 18 December. This was reported by the UN High Commi ...
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  17 January 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - The icon of the "Mysterious Supper" returns to the Syrian village of Maalula Maalula (Agenzia Fides) - A copy of the icon of the Mysterious Supper - stolen from the shrine of St. Sergius and Bacchus in Maalula in 2014 when the Syrian village was occupied by al-Nusra jihadists - has been relocated ...
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  17 January 2019
  VATICAN - "The entire Church, all the Churches for the whole world": towards the Extraordinary Missionary Month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The entire Church, all the Churches for the whole world": this sentence of blessed Paolo Manna, Pime, whose liturgical memorial is celebrated on January 16, inspired the Day of spiritualit ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Presentation of the logo for the beatification of the martyrs of La Rioja, "the joy of the whole people" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine diocese of La Rioja presented the logo and the theme of the beatification of Mgr. Enrique Angelelli, of the priests Carlos Murias ofm and Gabriel Longueville and of layman Wencesl ...
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  15 January 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims together to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the encounter between St. Francis and the Sultan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the historic event of the encounter between St. Francis with the Sultan of Egypt, AL-Kamil in the year 1219, modernize it in today's Pakistan, launching a universal message of tole ...
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  15 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Central African Bishops denounce: "Some UN contingents do not protect civilians" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There are contingents of the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in Central Africa (MINUSCA) who do not do their duty to protect civilians. This is the accusation launched by the Central African Bisho ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - The work of the Assembly of Bishops begins: "Synodality belongs to the whole Church" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 49 Peruvian Bishops yesterday inaugurated their 113th Plenary Assembly with a Mass celebrated in the parish of San Antonio de Padua, district of Jesus Maria, in Lima. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, Archbish ...
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  15 January 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches closed under pressure from Islamists in Minya. Coptic jurists denounce the local authorities of connivance with sectarianism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Some Coptic jurists have denounced the governor of Minya province before the attorney general about the facts that in recent days have led to the closure of a Coptic place of worship in the villag ...
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  14 January 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "We do not know where Fr. Maccalli is, we live in a climate of insecurity" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we live in a climate of insecurity that reigns on the border area with Burkina Faso. Almost every week, there are armed attacks that mainly target the military and law enforcement agencies ...
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  14 January 2019
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: no to the privatization of water, unjust fiscal and pension system San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, invited Salvadorans to vote responsibly in the presidential elections on 3 February. "Very soon there will be elections, and we must ...
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  14 January 2019
  AFRICA - Crisis in Togo and Gabon: the Bishops denounce violence and invite them to dialogue Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The events that we are experiencing in our Country at a political and social level do not leave us indifferent. Violence against people, the wounded, prisoners and the dead that marked the period ...
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  14 January 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - WYD in Panama, an opportunity make the Amazon and the Amazonian face of young Brazilians known Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Panama will host the World Youth Day (WYD) from 22 to 27 January. One of the participants is Aylla Emanuele Silveira, a young 21-year-old woman who will represent the Magis House of Manaus and ha ...
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  14 January 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - 10 years after the anti-Christian violence in Orissa, victims await compensation Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - About 3,000 survivors of the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa in 2008 still claim legitimate compensation in proceedings underway in front of the Supreme Court: this is what the justice, pea ...
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  11 January 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: the already fragile State of law in the Country is in danger, it is necessary to respect the Constitution Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Huge concern and great indignation in the face of the events which took place in past days", were expressed by the Bishops of Guatemala in a statement signed on 10 January by the Preside ...
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  11 January 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Secure borders and humane treatment of those fleeing persecution and seeking a better life are not mutually exclusive. Newark (Agenzia Fides) - In the message to the nation on Tuesday 8 January on the issue of migrants at the border, Donald Trump, President of the United States, attacked Central American migrants trying to enter the coun ...