Archive News

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  26 June 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A school for 1300 students of Azimganj Azimganj (Agenzia Fides) - The town of Azimganj, in the district of Murshidabad, was an important commercial hub in the eighteenth century, home to many Jain temples that testify the glories of distant times. The Salesia ...
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  26 June 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw: "The role of teachers is decisive for peace and coexistence" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "School teachers play a fundamental role in the promotion of peace in Pakistan, we must offer them the opportunity to learn more and encourage them to continue to be educators of peace: It is ver ...
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  26 June 2018
  AMERICA - Scalabrinians: instead of inhumane migratory policies, look for suitable alternatives that respect dignity Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo/Scalabrinians, with the mission to follow migrants and refugees, worried and committed to accompanying our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters on t ...
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  26 June 2018
  ASIA/ARMENIA - European funds to stabilize Armenian refugees who fled from Syria Ereven (Agenzia Fides) - The European Union is preparing to allocate a contribution of 3 million euros to support projects for the integration and stabilization of Armenian refugees who fled from Syria who found refuge i ...
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  26 June 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Bishops: "speculation and wild urbanization among the causes of the deadly flood in Abidjan" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - It is not just climate change that provokes humanitarian tragedies, but also human responsibility. This is what the Ivorian Episcopal Conference states in a note expressing its condolences for t ...
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  26 June 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - All the Bishops are committed to guiding the Colombian people "on the path of true peace" Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - "The Colombian people are eager for peace, but we still cannot find the right path. All the Bishops of Colombia are engaged in the effort to lead our people on the path to true peace, which is t ...
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  26 June 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Violence does not stop, Cardinal Brenes in audience with the Pope to inform him of the painful situation Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 30 June Pope Francis will receive Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes Solorzano, Archbishop of Managua, President of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua and of the Commission for Nation ...
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  26 June 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul: Chinese Catholics on pilgrimage to the martyrs' shrine, to invoke the unity of the Church Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The pilgrims reached the shrine of the martyrs of Zhu Jia He, in the Chinese province of He Bei, to ask with the prayer to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul - whose feast falls on June 29th - the ...
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  25 June 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social Week: the poor must not pay the price of adjustment policies Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The "2018 Social Week", a training and reflection meeting organized by the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care (CEPAS), ended this year in Argentina. The initiatives took place f ...
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  25 June 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun: Lebanese reality should not be perceived in terms of "majority" and "minority" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - It is wrong to persist in interpreting the Lebanese ethnic and religious reality according to the categories of "majority" and minority": this custom has ended up depriving some members of Lebane ...
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  25 June 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Plan to repeal the death penalty: Cardinal Yeom gives the support of the Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "For years there have been no executions in Korea, the Catholic Church has always reiterated "no to the death penalty" and welcomes the initiative of parliamentarians, Christians and non, who have ...
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  25 June 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Church's commitment to the promotion of human rights, a precondition for peace and development Lome (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of the 13th anniversary of its institution, the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace (CEJP) of the Archdiocese of Lomé organized three days "open to the pu ...
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  25 June 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Sister Mariam: 50 years of silent evangelization with the Little Sisters of Jesus Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "When you are on a mission in a land like Afghanistan, you cannot evangelize in a traditional manner. Over the years we would have liked to be bearers of the message of the Gospel, but we could do ...
• 25 June 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of Archbishop of Ranchi, India, and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On 24 June 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ranchi presented by His Eminence Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo. The Pope appoint ...
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  25 June 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The young Carmelite Chiquitunga Blessed, tireless apostle of the discarded Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "A model of a young Christian", "a very intelligent person who expressed joy", "a model of a thinking person, that 'questions' and discusses, because there are realities that need to be questi ...