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  25 April 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two priests among victims in central Nigeria massacres Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Two priests and at least 19 faithful were killed in the parish of St Agnatius Ukpor-Mbalom in the village of Mbalom, in Gwer East Local Government Area, Benue State, which is part of the so-called ...
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  24 April 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops ask after yet another priest is assassinated : ' why have we lost respect for life?' Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) – “We make an urgent appeal to build a culture of peace and reconciliation. These latest deplorable events call every one of us to profound and sincere conversion of heart. It is time to l ...
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  24 April 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - “Prayer is where heart speaks to heart”: Vatican secretary of state addresses religious men and women in Port Moresby Boroko (Agenzia Fides) – “‘The first duty of the priest or religious is to pray regularly for the people entrusted to their care’. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope’s Francis’ secretary of state said this in an a ...
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  24 April 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “A gesture of peace in a country torn apart by war” Bishop Kussala lays foundation stone for hospital in Nzara Juba (Agenzia Fides)- "The Church continues to integrate government efforts to supply essential help to people in need ", Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, of Tombura-Yambio (in South Sudan), President of the Bishop ...
• 24 April 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - New bishop of Dédougou appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis appointed today Bishop of Dédougou (Burkina Faso), reverend Prosper Bonaventure Ky, of the clergy of the same diocese, until now standing secretary of the African ...
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  24 April 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - - Alleviating malnutrition, child mortality and illiteracy: Good Shepherd sisters 40 years commitment Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – For more than 40 years the community of Good Shepherd Sisters have worked to eliminate malnutrition, infant mortality and difficulties connected with illiteracy in the village of Magyikwin, nor ...
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  24 April 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Consecrated Life: “essential part of Catholic church presence in the Amazon”” Tabatinga (Agenzia Fides) – “The Amazon is an area where religious life in Latin America finds an important place for its missionary vocation” Fides was told by Sr. Luz Marina Valencia, of the St Teresa of Jesus S ...
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  24 April 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Catholic bishops address political and humanitarian crisis which: “ threatens the very essence of our free, fraternal and democratic nation” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday the Catholic Bishops Conference of Venezuela (CEV) issued a statement focussed on " the month long political and humanitarian crisis" in this country: " such major humanitarian chal ...
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  21 April 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Christians in Syria Middle East Christians are in serious danger. However to really understand this we must consider the context of the whole region. Sectarian division, the absence of authentic democracy, security, respect for civil righ ...
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  20 April 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Social welfare reform: protests explode, the Church says "No" to repression Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "How much barbarity! There is already at least one student killed in the university. I feel a lot of pain! Let's say No to repression": this is the heartfelt appeal of Mgr. Silvio José Baez, Au ...
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  20 April 2018
  AFRICA - The commitment of the African Church: Working for the physical well-being of man is an integral part of the mandate of the Gospel Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the areas of the earth most exposed to all kinds of disasters: wars, epidemics, famines, etc. The precarious health system of this part of the continent is very often n ...
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  20 April 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Migration becomes a social problem and divides the family Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of emigration in the Philippines has become a social problem that has negative effects on the stability of the family institution, says a priest who works with migrants. "One of th ...
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  20 April 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - Presidential change among general indifference due to the economic situation and widespread pessimism Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "Nobody expects a substantial political change with the election of Miguel Díaz-Canel as new Cuban president", comments María C. López, responsible for the communication of the Archdiocese of ...
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  20 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The first Christian chapel in a state university opens Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a Christian chapel in the state university of Faisalabad, and is the first place of Christian worship present in a public university in Pakistan. On April 15th, Archbishop Joseph Ars ...
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  19 April 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest murdered in his office Cuautitlán (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Rubén Alcántara Díaz, 50, judicial vicar of the diocese of Izcalli, in the municipality of Cuautitlán (Mexico), was murdered last night, Wednesday, April 18, with a knife, just bef ...