News

• 22 February 2018
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Resignation of the Bishop of Dunedin and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Dunedin (New Zealand), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Colin David Campbell, and at the same time appo ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Congo and South Sudan: peace and hope against all appearances Kara (Agenzia Fides) - The "Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in the Congo and South Sudan and in the world", announced by Pope Francis (see Fides 19/2/2018) was welcomed with gratitude by the Christians of South Sudan ...
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  22 February 2018
  AMERICA - Christians pray for peace in Africa and also in Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We join Pope Francis’ appeal to believers all over the world, for a special prayer for peace in Congo and South Sudan, to be held on Friday 23 February": says Mgr. Aldo Giordano, Apostolic Nu ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Africa ready to pray for peace in the DRC and in South Sudan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in all of Africa is mobilized to welcome the appeal launched on February 4 by Pope Francis to dedicate the second Friday of Lent, 2018, February 23, to a day of prayer and fasting for pe ...
• 21 February 2018
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi, of the diocesan clergy of Leribe, ...
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  21 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appeal of religious leaders: "Stop targeted violence on minorities" Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to stop targeted violence against Christians": this is the appeal launched by Christian leaders to the Prime Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Chauhan, and to all Indian political ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - National political dialogue begins: Catholics pray for peace Kolowarè (Agenzia Fides) - National political dialogue among the various political parties in Togo has begun in Lomé: the government and the coalition of the 14 opposition parties, which organized demonstrations almost ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops applaud the State of the Nation Address by President Ramaphosa Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We are at a moment in the history of our nation when the people, through their determination, have started to turn the country around", said the newly elected President of South Africa Cyr ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar is "open" to Coptic students (but they must memorize the Quran) Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of al Azhar, the most prestigious theological and academic center of Sunni Islam, supports the consolidation of a "modern and democratic" State in Egypt, and does not exclude openin ...
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  21 February 2018
  AMERICA - Synod on the Amazon: "To show the closeness of indigenous and Christian values" Amazzonia (Agenzia Fides) - "I could not say no, I agreed to contribute with all of my years of experience among the indigenous peoples, in the liturgy, catechesis and inculturated evangelization, as well as contributing ...
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  21 February 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops: National day of civil commitment to save dreamers Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The US Bishops have launched a special "National Catholic Call-In Day for the Protection of Dreamers", the young immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors and without legal documents to follo ...
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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Overcoming the sin of tribalism: a challenge for the Church of Africa Ahiara (Agenzia Fides) - The well-known ethnic and tribal crisis that struck the Nigerian diocese of Ahiara "is just the tip of the iceberg", reports Ivorian theologian Donald Zagore, missionary of the Society of African ...
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  20 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy on social media: a Christian arrested Lahore (Agenza FIdes) – 17-year-old Christian Patras Masih was accused of blasphemy on social media and arrested yesterday in Lahore. As Fides learns, the complaint, based on Article 295-c of the Pakistani Penal Code ( ...
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  20 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Israeli Parliament rejects bill on recognition of "Armenian Genocide" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Parliament rejected a bill, which would have recognized the "Armenian Genocide". Sponsored by Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, the bill was rejected in a preliminary vote whic ...
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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "A campaign of defamation of the Church underway while the Country prepares to vote" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We denounce the campaign of discrediting and defamation of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy", says the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO) in the statement published at the ...