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8 February 2017
AFRICA/MALI - A Colombian nun kidnapped
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian nun of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate was kidnapped last night, February 7, in Koutiala, in the south of Mali. "We do not know who the kidnappers are. T ...
8 February 2017
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Social Justice for 120,000 farm workers in the state of New York
Albany (Agenzia Fides) - During a press conference held yesterday at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, the capital of New York state, the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, His Exc. Mgr. Edward B. Scharfe ...
8 February 2017
VATICAN - The Pope: be strong in the fight against the scourge of human trafficking
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the general audience today, Pope Francis appealed to eradicate the scourge of trafficking, with these words: "Today we celebrate the Day of prayer and Awareness Against Human Traffick ...
1 February 2017
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "To stigmatize immigrants" or open up to the richness of life they bring with them?
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Who is 'the other', how can I get in relationship with him?" is the question to ask according to the Episcopal Commission for Migration and Tourism of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina ...
1 February 2017
ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun gives Metropolitan Georges Khodr the national honor of the Order of the Cedar
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun gave Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan Georges Khodr of Mount Lebanon the National Order of the Cedar, the honor for great services rendered to Lebanon, for acts of ...
1 February 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - A priest who opposed the militiamen of Kamuina Nsapu was kidnapped and then released
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest who opposed the arrogance of the militia of the traditional late chief Kamuina Nsapu was first kidnapped and then released. The fact took place yesterday, 31 January, in Kanan ...
1 February 2017
ASIA/LAOS - Two new priests for Laos in 2017
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community in Laos (less than 1% out of seven million inhabitants) is preparing to celebrate two new priestly ordinations in 2017: say to Agenzia Fides the Laotian Bishops ...
1 February 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - First counseling center in Chiapas for the victims of violence and the building of peace
Tuxtla Gutierrez (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Caritas Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez has just inaugurated the first "counseling center" which aims to offer a safe space to accompany and assist the victims of violence i ...
1 February 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal to students: "Yes to demonstrations without interrupting the lessons"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal to all our students in the beginning of this academic year to return to lectures and to their academic programmes while continuing their legitimate campaign" say the South Africa ...
1 February 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "foreign bullies" or sectarian militias to protect Christians in the Nineveh Plain are not needed
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There is no need for foreign forces to protect villages and areas of the Nineveh Plain where sooner or later Christians who lived there until August 2014 will return, when those territories we ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The number of street children doubles
San Miguel de Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretariat for Childhood, Adolescence and the Family had to assist cases of sexual violence and child abuse, abandonment and neglect of relatives last year. Also in 2016, the ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consecrated life: "light for the world, promoter of peace and reconciliation"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Inspired by the theme "Let us be reconciled to God" (2 Cor 5:20) indicated by the Colombian Episcopate, which places reconciliation as a priority commitment of the whole Church of Colombia for th ...
31 January 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - New impetus for Missionary Childhood and Adolescence with new communication technologies
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Five virtual meetings during 2017 for mutual enrichment of the national Directorates of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Bolivarian countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and V ...
31 January 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - A Muslim lawyer killed: "An attack on democratic transition"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation and outrage for the murder of Muslim lawyer U Ko Ni, adviser of the National League for Democracy (NLD): is what civil society organizations, associations and other Christian ...
31 January 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 also collects information on the visit of Fethullah Gulen in the Vatican
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 is also collecting information on the visit of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen Fethullah Gulen - indicated by the Turkish authorities as ...
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