News

• 20 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Semarang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On March 18, 2017 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Robertus Rubiyatmoko, Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Semarang and Formator at the Major Seminary, as Archbishop of Semarang (Indones ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Day of Prayer and national fund for flood victims Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all witnesses of the harsh reality that thousands of Peruvians who have lost everything are living", say the Bishops of Peru following a major emergency that the country is experiencing due ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Diocese denounces: Another priest attacked by an armed group Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "On the evening of March 16 alleged members of the police force in Coahuila, violently broke into the home of Father Robert Coogan Francis, Head of the Prison Ministry in the diocese, and after ...
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  20 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A health center for street children in the city of diamonds Mbuji-Mayi (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish NGO Manos Unidas will build a health center in order to assist street children in the Salesian Muetu Don Bosco complex in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, in the south-central Democratic ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Children are likely to lose a school year due to teachers' strikes San Juan de la Maguana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, His Exc. Mgr. José Dolores Grullon Estrella, warned that if teachers' strikes continue, this school year in the provinces of ...
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  20 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: the communities of the diaspora must take charge of the shortage of priestly vocations Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Many of the Chaldean communities of the diaspora, spread in Western Countries, are asking the Patriarchate to urgently send priests for pastoral care. But the Chaldean Patriarchate cannot send p ...
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  20 March 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The guardian of Nyalenda parish in Kisumu killed in a robbery Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The guardian of Nyalenda parish, a slum in the city of Kisumu, in the center-west of Kenya, on Lake Victoria, was killed in a robbery in the night between 18 and 19 March. George Omondi, 47, fa ...
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  20 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The grace of God, the true strength for the suffering faithful in Orissa Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) – It is the grace of God that gives strength to Christians in Orissa. It is the trust they have in Him that allows the faithful to overcome the difficulties of the present: this is the experienc ...
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  20 March 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - The seats reserved for Christians in the upcoming municipal elections have been confirmed Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) confirmed the number of seats reserved for each city to Christian candidates with a presidential decree, in view of the municipal elections sched ...
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  18 March 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Diocese of Pyongyang: 90 years praying for peace. Tension USA-Pyongyang. Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula, the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, in a press conference reiterated that the military option against North Korea is on the table if President Kim J ...
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  18 March 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuba offers 1,000 medical scholarships to Colombia peace process Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Two days ago Colombia's Cuban ambassador, Jose Luis Ponce, informed that Cuba has awarded 1,000 scholarships to members of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and vic ...
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  18 March 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Mali, Colombia and the Catholic Church are doing everything possible to find Sister Gloria Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian nun, Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, was kidnapped by armed men in the south of Mali, in a Catholic church in Sikasso (see Fides 08/02/2017). Neither Islamists nor jihadists g ...
• 17 March 2017
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Laghouat, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 March 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Laghouat (Algeria), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Claude Rault, M. Afr. The Holy Father appoi ...
• 17 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 March 2017 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, S.V.D., Vicar Apostolic of Donkorkrom, as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi, (Ghana). (SL) ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The art to combat violence that children in poor neighborhoods live Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Many children from the slums of Venezuela are suffering from insecurity, conflict and economic hardship, aggravated by inflation that plagues the Country. They live in crowded houses, perched on ...