Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 25, 2017, the Pope appointed His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Tran Van Toan as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Long Xuyên, Vietnam. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/08/2017)
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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 9, 2017, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Valentine Tsamma Seane. He appointed His Exc. Mgr. ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 5, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tambacounda, Senegal, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Noel Diouf, and has appointed His Exc. Mgr. J ...
Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam) rejects the extinction of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), decided by the government, considering it "a blasphemy of Brazilian democracy, b ...
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has established an Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, which will focus on addressing the sin of racism in society, and even in the Church, and the ...
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A coordinator for "justice and peace" commission at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wau, in South Sudan has been arrested. According to Radio Tamazuj, Natalina Andrea Mabu, was under investigations over a susp ...
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Turning point in the investigations regarding the murder of Fr. Vincent Machozi, an Assumptionist priest killed on the night of March 20, 2016 in the village of Vitungwe-Isale, 15km from Butembo in the ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 August 2017, Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico, (Ecuador), presented by His Excellency Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 2, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri (Bolivia) presented by His Exc. Mgr. Francesco Focardi, O.F.M.(SL) (Agenzia Fide ...
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr will set on a European tour responding to official invitations, including a visit to the Vatican and a meeting with Pope Francis. This was confirmed in recent days by Jaa ...
Borborema (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Pedro Gomes Bezerra was found dead in his home in Borborema, in the Brazilian state of Paraibo, on the morning of August 24. The priest's body, wrapped in a sheet, was stabbed at least 29 times wi ...
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The UN forces in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) are still being accused of not defending civilians from militia attacks in villages in the southeast.
Some Catholic priests whose villages have been ...
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the security situation in the cities and territories of the eastern provinces (North and South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika) and in the city and Province of Kinshasa", said a ...
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral Statement issued at the end of their second Plenary meeting, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri have called on the priests, religious and lay faithful of Ahiara Diocese to co ...
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Large victory of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the legislative elections held on 23 August (see Fides 24/8/2017). The party, in power in Angola since independence in 1975, ...
