News

• 28 April 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Geita Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Flavian Kassala, director of the Stella Maris Mtwara College as Bishop of the Diocese of Geita (Tanzania). The new Bishop of Geita was born ...
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  27 April 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The education of children in Cambodia is the aim of Catholic Mission Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment and efforts carried out by sister Eulie Desacula and the Daughters of Charity in favor of the most vulnerable children in Phnom Penh with their innovative institution Mobile Tuk ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The commitment of "Silsilah" movement for dialogue Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Formation and experience of dialogue: this is the proposal of the "Silsilah" Movement, founded in southern Philippines by missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, of the Pontifical Institute fo ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three women killed because deaf Leveque (Agenzia Fides) - Three deaf mothers were found dead on the road that goes from the Haitian capital to Leveque. They were returning home on foot together because a bridge had collapsed and there was no bus servic ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Statement of the Bishops on death penalty: "Today it is unacceptable" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Human life is a gift from God, and therefore we are obliged to respect and protect it from the first moment of conception until its natural end", reads the first lines of the communiqué of the Pe ...
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  27 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The army releases a hundred children kidnapped during the Gambella massacre Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Ethiopia’s military entered the territory of South Sudan to try to save hundreds of children abducted from Ethiopia by a group of southsudanese armed men. According to Ethiopian radio st ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal: Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal has been filed to the Court of Appeal and the first hearing will take place in May regarding a Christian couple Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar. This was reported to Fides by the ...
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  27 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic deputy: we will bring the case of the murder of Giulio Regeni in Parliament Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni will be among the "major priority" on the agenda of the Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights of Egypt’s House of Representativ ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Baghdad on a pilgrimage to Ur of the Chaldeans Bassora (Agenzia Fides) - It was the biggest pilgrimage made by Iraqi Christians in recent years: about 200 Chaldeans from Baghdad went to Ur, the historical site of lower Mesopotamia, now in the Iraqi governorate in Dhi ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Evangelical church set on fire, still in the name of the Mapuche cause Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Another church in the Chilean region of La Araucania was set on fire: last night the fire destroyed an evangelical church, in the municipality of Padres Las Casas. Although firefighters arrived o ...
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  26 April 2016
  AFRICA - Malaria can be cured: prevention and access to treatment Padova (Agenzia Fides) - Malaria in Africa today remains one of the most common diseases among adults and a major cause of death for children. Doctors with Africa Cuamm are present in 16 hospitals: Angola, Ethiopia, Moza ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The "Clock Church" destroyed in central Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday April 24 the Latin church in the center of Mosul, historically officiated by the Dominican Fathers and known as the "Church of the Miraculous Virgin" or dubbed as the "Clock Church", was ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The army must act in an ethical manner", says Mgr. Herrera on the conflict in Ayapal Ayapal (Agenzia Fides) - "The army of Nicaragua should proceed following the ethical principles in the existing conflict in the Ayapal community" said His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Enrique Herrera Guttierez OFM, Bishop of the dio ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Minors in tears because forced to marry Chittorgarh (Agenzia Fides) - In Chittorgarh, a city of Rajasthan in northern India, where early marriage is widespread, a secret video shows child brides sobbing because they are forced to marry. Six marriages took plac ...
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  26 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Copts return to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Palm Sunday, celebrated the day before yesterday by the Churches that follow the Julian calendar, saw an exponential increase of Egyptian Coptic pilgrims who have come to celebrate the rites of Ho ...