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• 6 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 6, 2014, the Holy Father, appointed Rev. Telesphore Bilung, S.V.D., currently Provincial Superior of the Divine Word Missionaries, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ranchi ( ...
• 6 May 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous children and adolescents forced to leave school to work or to marry Merida (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico and Yucatan, indigenous girls, boys and adolescents constitute a high proportion of the population vulnerable to the conditions of poverty in which they live, which lead them not to enj ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Vincent Fredrick Mwakhwawa, of the Archdiocese of Lilongwe as Na ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 4, 2013, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. David Tinashe Muguti, of the Diocese of Gweru as National Directo ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - First nuclear power plant in the country? Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The plan to build the first nuclear power plant in Banglasdesh - so far passed almost unnoticed - is generating a national debate that sees civil society groups, farmers and environmentalists oppo ...
• 5 May 2014
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Episcopal Assembly begins: "It is impossible to get used to drugs and violence" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On May 5, the 107th Plenary Assembly of Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, presided by its President, Archbishop of Santa Fe, His Exc. Mgr. José María Arancedo begins in Bu ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the presidential elections, the Church does not take sides with any candidate Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has explicitly excluded any choice of the Coptic Orthodox Church in favor of one of the two candidates in the Egyptian presidential elections to be held next ...
• 5 May 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "We cannot continue to bury young people every day" denounced Mgr. Rosa Chavez San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, in his usual press conference on Sunday, said that on Tuesday 29 April he had participated in the meeting with the ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Untold suffering of more than five thousand Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs" denounces the Assistant Parish Priest in Abyei Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5,000 Displaced Persons are in serious condition in the area of Agok, near Abyei, on the border between South Sudan and Sudan. These people, from Unity State of Upper Nile region, are lac ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The campaign against the blasphemy law awakens Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – There are signs of awakening with regards to the awareness campaign and protest against the blasphemy law in Pakistan. The controversial "black law" (which consists of three articles of the Cri ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Mayor of Baghdad: we will distribute houses and lands to Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The mayor of Baghdad, Abub Naim al-Kaabi, has made known his intention to distribute building land and houses built according to the plans of public housing also for the benefit of Christians in ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Bishops of Cameroon : "We pray for the speedy and unconditional release of the kidnapped missionaries" Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon condemn the kidnapping of the two Italian Fidei Donum priests, Don Gianantonio Allegri and Don Giampaolo Marta, and a Canadian religious, Sister Gilberte Bussier of the C ...
• 5 May 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: an animation "that speaks to the heart of God's people, indicating the beauty of participating in the missionary service" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If the Pontifical Mission Societies do not persevere in preserving jealously their universal Catholic dimension, it is not their survival which is in danger, but the service to all the mis ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New hearing for Asia Bibi on May 27 Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal process for Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy has been scheduled for May 27. As reported to Fides from the pool of ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - A special prayer for the Pope's pilgrimage to the Holy Land Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Heavenly Father, you never tire of being compassionate and loving. The successor of St. Peter plans to visit the Holy Land sanctified by your Son’s birth, baptism, teaching, death and resurrect ...