News

• 5 April 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Anastasio Gil Garcia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 8, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Anastasio Gil Garcia, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Madrid as ...
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  5 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Mapuche conflict": another church burned Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – This morning a fire destroyed a chapel in Quepe, in the municipality of Freire, Chilean region of La Araucania. The chapel had been a reference point for the local faithful for 30 years. Accor ...
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  5 April 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sport and solidarity to restore sight to 100 African mothers Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Ethiopia is one of the Countries most affected by blindness. In this Country, in fact, women with visual disabilities are exposed to enormous risks: accidents at home, family neglect, violence. Th ...
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  5 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Award to "Las Patronas": recognition for solidarity with migrants Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - The historian Jean Meyer Barth, Bishop Raul Vera Lopez and "Las Patronas", a group of women who provide food and assistance to migrants crossing the center of Veracruz, will receive the Medal o ...
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  5 April 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Calm has returned in Brazzaville Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Calm is slowly returning in Brazzaville after yesterday's clashes. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by local Church sources from the capital of the Republic of Congo, where in the early mo ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intrusion during a Christian assembly: faithful threatened, Bibles confiscated New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of about 40 Hindu extremists in a Pentecostal Christian Assembly stormed during a prayer meeting, interrupting the worship, threatening the faithful and seizing Bibles: as reported to ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "Vote politicians with a high vision and dedicated to service" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Choose political leaders animated by a high "vision" of common good and dedicated to the service of citizenship: is the exhortation Filipino Bishops propose to the faithful in view of the politic ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The relics of Mar Elian have been recovered in the sanctuary devastated by Jihadists. Father Jacques Mourad: rebirth of the monastery Qaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) – In Quaryatayn, the Syrian city recently returned under Syrian military control, the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have gone, leaving rubble and devastation in Mar Elian sanctuary, w ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Bishops: may Christians be involved in the new government Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The request to include even Christian politicians in the government, the invitation to the faithful not to be persuaded by those who promote their escape from Iraq, and a clear statement of suppor ...
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  5 April 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The Archbishop of Mwanza praises the government's efforts to combat corruption Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to recognise the good leadership of our national leaders in restoring ethics, integrity and the rule law", said His Exc. Mgr. Juda Thadeus Ruwaichi, Archbishop of Mwanza (Tanzania ...
• 4 April 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Osogbo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 April 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. John Akin Oyejola of the clergy of Oyo, Priest and Director of the Diocesan Center for Family Ministry, as Bishop of Osogbo (Nigeria). The n ...
• 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 ...