News

• 4 March 2016
  AMERICA/CANADA - Appoinment of new PMS National Director Fr. Yoland Oullet Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 8 January 2016 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in French sp ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - International Seminar : how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – A two day international seminar opened today in Beirut to discuss how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries. The initiati ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “showing mercy is not weakness ”: says Bishop Aguilar Martínez after recent acts of violence Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) – "The world today does not encouge us to have mercy on the contrary, it encourages us to be forceful judges and executants so that violence is punished with more violence and this is arroganc ...
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  4 March 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Let us fight corruption as Pope Francis asked us to do” says Archbishop Kairo Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A Kenyan archbishop has reminded President Uhuru Kenyatta of what Pope Francis said during his visit to the African country about fighting corruption. “During the meeting with young people at K ...
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  4 March 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Flour is scarce , long lines to buy bread Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The people of Khartoum have to wait in long lines to buy a little bread from the bakeries which often have to close because of the scarcity of flour. A woman in the state of Khartoum told th ...
• 4 March 2016
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Tunisia concerned about possible military intervention in Libya Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - “Tunisia is deeply concerned about possible intervention on the part of western powers in Libya” F r. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Tunisia, said in a ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Leading environmentalist Berta Cacere assassinated after ten years of threats La Esperanza (Agenzia Fides) – Leading environmentalist Berta Caceres, well known in Honduras, was murdered at dawn yesterday, Thursday 3 March, at La Esperanza, about 200 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, in the west of t ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre for street children Cuautla (Agenzia Fides) – About 150 children who have no school to go to and are forced to spend their days on the streets, have been accepted at the new La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre, organized by Santiago ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...
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  3 March 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish-American Day: 970 Spanish fidei donum priests on mission in Latin America. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Next Sunday, 6 March, "Latin-American Day" with this year’s theme "Prophets of Marcy", is promoted by the Missions Commission of the Spanish Catholic Bishops’ Conference and OCSHA (Organis ...
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  3 March 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Zika virus continues to spread, 30 countries in Latin America already affected Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Hygiene and Epidemiology Department officials, who asked not to be named, confirmed that on February 28 Cuban health authorities spoke of 21 cases of Zika virus on the island of Cuba. The gover ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...
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  3 March 2016
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Number of girls in the world without schooling is double the number of boys Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 16 million girls in the whole world aged between 6 and 11 will never go to school, twice the number of boys in this situation, if present trends continue. The alarm comes from UNESCO, Uni ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step” Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...