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23 January 2018
AFRICA/TOGO - Women, in black, take to the streets to demonstrate against the President
Lome (Agenzia Fides) - Togo women are at the forefront of the popular protest against the power of President Faure Gnassingbe. Since September, a coalition of 14 political parties has held almost weekly marches, where th ...
23 January 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Protests led by the Catholic laity will continue"; the Nunciature: "fatal bullets fired against demonstrators"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The government is trying to put the blame on the organizers regarding the violent protest march held on Sunday", report Church sources of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Agenzia Fides, wh ...
23 January 2018
AMERICA/CHILE - The Pope's visit leaves "an appeal to hope and unity"
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to hope, to "continue to rise again after the collapse", not to stop believing in the transforming power of God the Father, to "work for peace". And to say "no to the vio ...
23 January 2018
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio’s murder, the missionaries: "We hope the truth will come to light"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still in a preliminary phase, it is already the third time that the results of an investigation into the murder of Father Fausto Tentorio are presented, but in the past they were not enou ...
22 January 2018
AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops’ spokesman: "Pope Francis enhanced local religious traditions"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to return to their cultural and family roots and to live faith with joy, as "grateful servants": this is, in short, the message that Pope Francis left to Peru. This is what Jesuit, Fr ...
22 January 2018
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians are discriminated against in society but play a valuable role
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Bangladesh, a small minority in a country with a Muslim majority, often face discrimination: says to Agenzia Fides Catholic priest Fr. David Bipul Das, of the Church of Our Lady of G ...
22 January 2018
ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops to Israeli authorities: expulsion exposes Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to dangers and wars
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli authorities are imposing on Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to choose between prison or exodus in other Countries, and this political choice risks exposing "so many lives to d ...
22 January 2018
AFRICA/KENYA - The proto-Cathedral of Marsabit attacked
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The proto-Cathedral of Our Lady of Consolata in Marsabit, a Catholic church in northern Kenya, on the border with Ethiopia, was sacked during violent demonstrations for the arrest of a Muslim pr ...
22 January 2018
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Yet another Christian victim among sewer laborers
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian, Shehzad Mansha Masih was a resident in Korangi, Karachi. Like so many Pakistani Christians, he worked for the sewage line but was not provided any security measure for his safety ...
22 January 2018
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Redemptorists write to Trump: "His words on poor Countries are disparaging"
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "We turn to you, Mr. President, for the purpose of commenting on the negative impact of your disparaging words on Thursday 11 January 2018 in the presence of some members of the EUA Congress de ...
22 January 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violent repression of demonstrations: at least 6 dead, a dozen priests kidnapped
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 priests and two nuns were kidnapped by the police in the clashes which occurred yesterday, Sunday, January 21, in several cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo, due to the viol ...
20 January 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - A living Church that strives to be an element of national union
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The percentage of Catholics in the south of Cameroon is very high. There is a large number of well-organized parishes with good facilities. I saw brand new churches and others under construction. ...
20 January 2018
AMERICA/PERU - From the Peruvian martyrs new impulse to mission
Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) – On 9 August 1991 Fr. Michal Tomaszek and Fr. Zbigniew Strzalkowski, two young Polish conventual friars from Krakow, who had lived in the Peruvian Andes for a couple of years, bringing the Gos ...
20 January 2018
AMERICA/PERU - The Pope in Peruvian Amazon: perverse policies that defend nature forgetting man
Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous Amazonian peoples have probably never been so threatened on their own lands as they are at present". The Amazon is a territory that is being disputed on many fronts. On t ...
20 January 2018
AMERICA/PERU - The Pope in Lima: corruption is the "social scourge" that devastates the Latin American continent
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption is the "social virus" that infects Latin American peoples and democracies. It spreads as "a form of environmental degradation that increasingly contaminates the whole system of life". An ...
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