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• 8 September 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishop of Chimbote: "the solution to insecurity is not lynching" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chimbote, in northern Peru, His Exc. Mgr. Angel Francisco Simon Piorno, spoke out against the campaign which appeared in social networks in Peru entitled "Get the t ...
• 7 September 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Claretian Missionaries: the new Superior General is Indian Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 September 2015, the General Chapter elected Fr. Mathew Vattamattam CMF, as the 13th Superior General of the Congregation of the Claretian. Fr. Mathew Vattamattam was born on 30th May, 1959 i ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta marches in defense of the rights of Colombians Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Colombians who live on the border with Venezuela marched in defense of the dignity of their compatriots expelled and to reaffirm their brotherhood with this country, two weeks after the closure o ...
• 7 September 2015
  VATICAN - Pastoral visit of Cardinal Filoni in Bangladesh, India and Nepal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is leaving for a pastoral visit in Asia. From 9 to 13 September he will be in Bangladesh, where he w ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - New health center for basic assistance and nutrition for women and children Miami (Agenzia Fides) - After years of uncertainty and economic problems, finally Liberty City, a suburb of Miami, Florida, has launched its health center. The center will offer health care assistance to 75,000 people, e ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa encourages inmates: "Imprisonment is not the same as exclusion" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "Imprisonment is not the same as exclusion, there are many elements that are against inmates: overcrowding, the slow pace of justice, the lack of an employment strategy, violence ... Brother ...
• 7 September 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres committed by jihadists in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least nine people have been killed in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a new attack of the ADF-NALU, group of Ugandan origin that now calls itself Muslim Defense Internat ...
• 7 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Bishops' message for the 11 October elections: "Politics, the highest form of charity" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a change of mindset for peaceful, free and trasparent elections" write the Bishops of Burkina Faso in their Pastoral Letter entitled "Political commitment: a supreme expression of l ...
• 7 September 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Poverty and precariousness force people to seek food in the garbage Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis that is currently affecting Venezuela decreases the number of Venezuelans who can buy basic food items on a daily basis. According to information gathered by Fides, this ...
• 7 September 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians arrested on charges of proselytizing Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians were arrested by the police in the province of Khammouan, in the East of Laos, on charges of alleged proselytizing. The police broke into the house of a Christian in the village ...
• 4 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - May our nation be an open space for respectable migration, in justice and peace Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Just like every person has the right to defend their identity, to set limits to its spaces, one also has the vital need to open its borders in order to meet each other’s needs, to give on ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Albert's College" Seminary in Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 April 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Deepak Valerian Tauro, of the diocesan clergy of Muzaffarpur as Rect ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A court denies bail to some Christians arrested for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism Court in Gujranwala has denied bail to a group of Christians accused of blasphemy and were arrested, including Protestant Pastor Gill Aftab, who leads the "Biblical Church of G ...
• 4 September 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "The last nail in Bethlehem’s coffin": A dossier on the Cremisan wall Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - "The last nail in Bethlehem’s coffin: the annexation wall in Cremisan". This is the title of a new, detailed report, released yesterday by the Society of St. Yves, the Catholic Center for Hu ...
• 4 September 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - More than 30 dead in two attacks in northern Cameroon Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people died in a double bomb attack yesterday, September 3, in Kerawa, a town in the far north of Cameroon on the border with Nigeria. According to testimonies, a first explosion, a ...