News

• 4 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Isangi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Dieudonné Madrapile Tanzi, of the clergy of Isiro-Niangara, professor at the Pontifical Urbaniana University as Bishop of the Diocese of Isan ...
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  4 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Missionary children explain the Gospel to their peers Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - It is still Lent in Ethiopia. Preparations for Easter continue, as well as the activities of the small Catholic communities of Oromia. Among these, Fides received the story of a group of children ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Farmers killed by the police: the Church condemns violence Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "A death is always tragic, especially when it is a violent death. Let us pray for our farmers in Kidapawan: may they find peace and happiness in heaven. The police have the mandate to preserve pe ...
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  4 April 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Catholic Medical Mission launches the alarm about the spread of Zika virus on the island Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. "The lack of education, information, the number of people living in slums and the level of stagnant water everywhere, are the ideal ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syrian Orthodox Bishop stopped and released by the Palestinian police Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Palestinian Police stopped Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Swerios Malki Murad, the Patriarchal Vicar who leads the Syrian Orthodox Christian community present in Holy Land. The arrest took p ...
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  4 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Congolese government and the UN have to open an investigation into the massacres in the northeast Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since October 2014, in the surroundings of the town of Beni, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), more than five hundred people have been killed and tens of thousands o ...
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  4 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Worsening of poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A "significant deterioration" of poverty was registered in Argentina in the first quarter of 2016: is what the latest report of the social debt observatory (ODSA) of the Universidad Católi ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Hospital patients want the return of the missionary wounded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – The sick of Dinajpur hope Fr. Piero Parolari, the Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, wounded in an ambush with attempted murder, will soon return to Bangladesh. ...
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  4 April 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - In Tripoli "we live waiting, praying for peace" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We live waiting, like the rest of the city's population, as always praying for peace. This is our task at the moment", say Church sources to Agenzia Fides from Tripoli, Libya's capital, where f ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Priest who gambled funds for refugees has been suspended Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean priest Amer Saka, who claimed he had gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for refugees fleeing violence and persecution in Iraq, has been temporarily suspended from t ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NGOs: "The government has given in to pressure from extremists" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan has given in to seven out of ten requests presented by Islamic radical groups, supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed criminal of the governor of Punjab, Salman T ...
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  2 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Acapulco and tradespeople’s appeal: "No more murders!" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers of organized crime (...) we kindly ask you to give us a few days without violence" said Laura Caballero, president of the largest association of traders of Acapulco, who together with ...
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  2 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Constitutional Court recognizes that President Zuma has violated the Constitution Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A ruling by the Constitutional Court recognized that South African President Jacob Zuma violated the Constitution by using public funds to renovate his private residence in Nkandla. The sto ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: Solidarity Campaign for Syrian refugees Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Five years after civil war in Syria - Let's wipe out their tears": is the new fundraising and solidarity campaign launched by "Caritas Korea" to give support to Syria. The funds, reported a state ...
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  1 April 2016
  AMERICA - Latin America: 348 thousand tons of food wasted every day Lima (Agenzia Fides) – About 348 thousand tons of food is wasted every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, which would be enough to feed 37 percent of the world's population suffering from hunger. This clearly appe ...