News

• 23 May 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Malakal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the rev. Stephen Nyodho Ador Majwok, of the clergy of Malakal, currently Vicar General of the same diocese as the Bishop of the diocese of Malakal (Sou ...
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  23 May 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church in the Philippines: "No" to reinstating the death penalty Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines is opposed to reinstating the death penalty in the legal system of the country. This was stated in an interview with Agenzia Fides by Catholic lay leader Ro ...
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  23 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The arrival of thousands of Peuls with millions of cattle destabilizes the south-east" says Mgr. Aguirre Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The local warlords are facilitating the progression of the Peuls herders in our area, creating alarm among the population", says His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños to Agenzia Fides. "Throu ...
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  23 May 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Meeting of border dioceses: the family continues to be the fundamental institution of society Pelotas (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a social context of strong changes in the social dynamics that have in particular affected our families and young people. It is possible to note in all these aspects, lights and shad ...
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  22 May 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Sri Lanka, one month after the Easter terrorist attacks Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the pastoral visit to Thailand for the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam, which marked the beginning of the local Catholic Church, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect ...
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  22 May 2019
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: "No law must cover up crimes against humanity!" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of El Salvador rejects the National Reconciliation Law recently discussed during the Legislative Assembly, denouncing that it would leave the culprits of crimes against ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Sister Ines, another woman who gives her life for Jesus at the service of the poor" says Pope Francis Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I have no idea. In our area ritual killings do not take place", says His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, to whom Agenzia Fides has asked for more details on the murder ...
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  22 May 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Joko Widodo confirmed President, the Bishops: "it is important to accept the result of the vote" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent presidential and legislative elections turned out to be the most challenging elections in the nation, as hundreds of members of the electoral committee died due to their excessive wo ...
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  22 May 2019
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Bishops: the "two peoples-two States" formula is now "empty rhetoric" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land take note that the proposal for a two-State solution has gone nowhere and is repeated to no avail. In fact, all talk of political solution seems empty rhe ...
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  22 May 2019
  AMERICA - CELAM: An ethical, political, economic and cultural crisis has grown throughout Latin America and the Caribbean Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "In all of Latin America and the Caribbean we have witnessed the growth of an ethical, political, economic and cultural crisis. Among these, we highlight the machismo that wounds the dignity ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Peace and immigration at the center of the attention of the Bishops of West Africa Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - There are two main themes at the center of the third Plenary Assembly of the bishops of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO), recently concluded in Ouagadougou (see Fides, 13/5/2019): "On the one hand ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Congolese priest who ran the institute for the blind was killed in Beira Beira (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the death of our brother Landry Ibil Ikwel, in the hospital of Beira (Mozambique) following a brutal attack in the community house in Beira, we join our hearts to those of our brot ...
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  21 May 2019
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The mission "Everyone’s home": two thousand lay missionaries in the streets of the capital to meet those who moved away from the Church Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - "Come, come back!" The invitation of the archdiocese of Montevideo is carrying out the mission "Everyone’s home". A note sent to Agenzia Fides explained that, during the last three weekends ...
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  21 May 2019
  ASIA/JAPAN - The government awards Cardinal Farina for contributing to studies on "hidden Christians" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Japanese government has awarded Cardinal Raffaele Farina the honor of the Order of the Rising Sun - Gold and Silver Star - for his "contribution to the strengthening of friendly relations betw ...
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  21 May 2019
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The "nameless war" between Banyindu and Banyamulenge has already caused hundreds of deaths Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A creeping conflict, far from the eyes of the international media, is underway in South Kivu in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From May 9th, armed groups formed by the B ...