News

• 11 January 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Bassène: "Caritas Senegal is at the service of all, because Charity is an integral part of the gospel" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Caritas Senegal wants to be in solidarity with man and be on his side whenever he is faced with the difficulties of life" said His Exc. Mgr. Jean Pierre Bassène, Bishop of Kolda and President of ...
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  11 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Imam "under investigation" due to a fatwa against Christmas greetings to Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Social tension and the risk of sectarian conflict have recently occurred in the Egyptian city of Damietta, since the imam of a mosque in the port city, addressed to the faithful Muslims, issued a ...
• 11 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops announce a Monitoring Committee to relaunch the electoral process Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today announced that they have established a Monitoring Committee to follow political developments in the Country in a year characterized b ...
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  11 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Protestant Church burned in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After a dispute between a group of Christians and Muslims, in the village of Bath, between Multan and Lahore, in Pakistani Punjab, the chapel of the Protestant Christian congregation called "Apos ...
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  9 January 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - New portal of Redemptorist missionaries: www.cssr.news Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A "news portal", this is how you can define the new web page that the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer has recently opened at the web www.cssr.news. There you will find, clearly indicated, t ...
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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Scientific report: it was not the Syrian army to use chemical weapons in ghouta Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - An official report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW has confirmed that traces of sarin gas used in the Syrian conflict, and that caused the so-called massacre i ...
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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery in Beit Gemal desecrated Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The cemetery adjacent to the Salesian monastery in Beit Gemal, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, was desecrated and the wooden and concrete crosses placed on many tombs w ...
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  9 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Black Nazarene, a devotion without borders New York (Agenzia Fides) - The devotion to the Black Nazarene in Manila does not have borders, and so while all roads in Manila lead to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, many devotees in New York who ca ...
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  9 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Meeting of the Bishops to study a communication policy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - In order to allow the Catholic Church to better coordinate its pastoral work in the media in Burkina Faso, the Episcopal Conference Burkina-Niger organized a workshop to strengthen their cap ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Opening of the Assembly of Bishops, Mgr. Padrón Sánchez: national reconciliation and amnesty for political prisoners Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop of Cumaná (Venezuela) and President of the Venezuelan Episcopate opened yesterday (7 January) the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Confe ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 14 soldiers arrested due to 558 forced disappearances that occurred in Guatemala Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday, January 6 arrested fourteen retired military linked to the forced disappearances of at least 558 people that took place in Guatemala between 1981 and ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Street children remain an invisible problem Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Every two evenings a team of professionals of the Casa San José go out on the streets of Quillacollo looking for abandoned children. Quillacollo is a municipality of the urban area of the ci ...
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  8 January 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm: The privilege of being with 'minors' Tosamaganga (Agenzia Fides) - "It is possible be nice and cheerful even amid the many forms of poverty", writes Don Dante Carraro, Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm, who has just come back from Tosamaganga, Tanzania. ...
• 8 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: terrorism does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorism "does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims", and even when it is fueled by religious ideology, it indiscriminately affects all believers in God, fomenting sectarian st ...
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  8 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr: return the homes illegally stolen from Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Christian politician Pascale Warda, former immigration minister in the first government of transition following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, has publicly expressed her satis ...