ASIA/SYRIA - A CHRISTIAN BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE SYRIAN PARLIAMENT Damascus - Hamoudeh Sabbagh ied, 59, is the first Christian elected President of the People's Assembly in decades. In the ...
ASIA/MYANMAR - IN PARLIAMENT THE NEW LAW AGAINST "HATE SPEECH": A STEP FORWARD Yangon - The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture of Myanmar has submitted a draft law against "hate speech" to Parliament ...
AFRICA/LIBYA - LIBYAN PROSECUTOR: WE KNOW WHERE THE COPTIC MARTYRS ARE BURIED, SLAUGHTERED BY JIHADISTS Tripoli - In a press conference held on Thursday 28 September Libyan General Prosecutor Al Sadiq al Sour reported that the ...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - ANOTHER PRIEST ABDUCTED IN THE SOUTH OF NIGERIA Abuja - Another Catholic priest in the south of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Adorolo, of St. Benedict Catholic Church, Okpella in ...
AMERICA/HAITI - DIALOGUE FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESTARTS, EVEN THE BISHOPS MEET THE PRESIDENT Port au Prince - After only seven months since taking office as President of the Republic of Haiti, Jovenel Moise is ...
ASIA/JAPAN - "IS THE GOSPEL NEEDED IN JAPAN?" Tokyo - "A question remains carved in our minds and in our hearts. A question that Cardinal Fernando Filoni provocatively left ...
AFRICA/KENYA - BISHOPS ALARM: "THERE IS A RISK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND OPEN CONFLICT IF POLITICAL FORCES DO NOT TALK" Nairobi - "Majority and opposition must listen to IEBC’s invitation to dialogue, and chart the way forward with the aim ...
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS: MINORS, ADOLESCENTS AND OLDER PEOPLE IN THE STREETS RUMMAGING FOR FOOD AMONG THE WASTE Caracas - The long economic and social crisis that Venezuela is experiencing and the great difficulty in finding groceries are having ...
AFRICA/EGYPT - THE COPTIC CHURCH ANNOUNCES A CONFERENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY. PATRIARCH TAWADROS: MARRIAGE CAN ONLY BE HETEROSEXUAL Cairo - Orthodox Coptic Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II reiterates the unavailability of the Coptic Church to legitimize in any form, marriage ...
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "SHARE THE JOURNEY" CAMPAIGN BEGINS, TO WELCOME MIGRANTS WHO "TOO OFTEN SEEM INVISIBLE TO US" Washington - The worldwide campaign to support displaced people began yesterday, September 27. On the same day, several Bishops across the ...
VATICAN - APPOINTMENTS AT PROPAGANDA FIDE Vatican City - Today Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples announced the following appointments: The ...
AFRICA/EGYPT - COPTIC CHURCH: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS MUST HELP CORRECT FALSE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS OF REPRODUCTION Cairo - State institutions must help counteract and correct concepts of reproduction that claim to be religious-based, and are also followed ...
AFRICA/CONGO RD - "THE CHURCH IS UNDER ATTACK" DENOUNCES THE PRESIDENT OF THE EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE RECALLING THE ABDUCTED PRIESTS Kinshasa - "Priests are not engaged in politics. If there have been appeals on behalf of some pastoral agents, it is ...
ASIA/INDIA - PROMOTION OF HEALTH CARE IN RURAL VILLAGES, NOT "PROSELYTISM" Gumla ? The Daughters of Sant'Anna, Catholic Sisters present in the Indian state of Jharkhand, are at the forefront of ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A WOMAN CONVERTS FROM ISLAM TO CHRISTIANITY: NOW SHE AND HER FAMILY RISK THEIR LIVES Lahore - A Pakistani woman from Punjab who has chosen to convert from Islam to Christianity has been threatened with death ...
ASIA/IRAQ - GOVERNOR NAWFAL AL AKOUB: MORE THAN 1,400 CHRISTIAN FAMILIES HAVE ALREADY RETURNED TO THE NINEVEH PLAIN Mosul - More than 1400 Christian families have already returned to their homes and villages scattered in the Nineveh Plain, which ...
AMERICA/CHILE - MAPUCHE ISSUE: CLASHES AND ARRESTS OUTSIDE THE CATHEDRAL OF CONCEPCION Concepcion - At least 30 people were arrested after a demonstration outside the Cathedral of Concepcion in southern Chile. During the ...
ASIA/MYANMAR - CARDINAL BO: "A HEALING PROCESS FOR MYANMAR" Yangone - "The recent sad and tragic events in our country that have hit thousands of Muslims, Hindus and others have ...
ASIA/IRAQ - HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CRITICIZE TRUMP’S ADMINISTRATION: IT HELPS ROHINGYA MUSLIMS AND NOT IRAQI CHRISTIANS Erbil - The US State Department’s ability to quickly allocate funds to the Rohingya, a Muslim minority affected by violence ...
ASIA/TURKEY - A CULTURAL CENTER NAMED AFTER ARMENIAN PATRIARCH MESROB II Istanbul - A cultural Center named after Mesrob Mutafyan, Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Constantinople, was inaugurated in an Armenian church in ...
AFRICA/GHANA - PRESIDENT OF PARLIAMENT AT THE SYNOD ON YOUTH: "SEEK CHRISTIAN VALUES AND DO NOT BE SEDUCED BY SECULARISM" Accra - "In our Country today, there is a growing emphasis on prosperity, especially among the youth. Society basically says: the ...
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - THE BISHOP OF ARAUCA APPEALS TO ELN: "TO MAKE THE PEACE PROCESS CREDIBLE" Arauca - "I want to launch this appeal to everyone, we must make the peace process credible, we must make people ...
AFRICA/TOGO - SOKODE UNDER SIEGE: "ACTIVE NON-VIOLENCE" TO CONTRIBUTE TO PEACE Sokode - "We are going through difficult times, yesterday our town of Sokode was besieged by the army; each of us ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - ASIA BIBI NOMINATED FOR SAKHAROV PRIZE 2017: THE BLASPHEMY LAW IN THE SPOTLIGHT Lahore - Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy and in jail since 2009, has been nominated for ...
AFRICA/SENEGAL - MIGRANTS, YOUNG PEOPLE AND WOMEN AT THE HEART OF CARITAS' ACTION IN AFRICA Dakar - Migrants, young people and women. These are the central points of the Caritas' action in Africa in the next ...
ASIA/JAPAN - CARDINAL FILONI: THE "FALSE IDENTIFICATION" BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND EUROPEAN CULTURE CAN HINDER THE PROPAGATION OF FAITH Tokyo - "One of the major obstacles to the propagation of faith in Japan seems to be the false identification between ...
ASIA/IRAQ - CHRISTIANS DIVIDED ON THE KURDISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM Erbil - The Chaldean Church "is not responsible" for the positions expressed by parties, organizations and armed factions led by members ...
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - SUPPORT FROM 12 COUNTRIES WITH REGARDS TO THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, THE CHURCH IS THE ONLY INSTITUTION THAT PEOPLE TRUST Caracas - Foreign ministers from 12 US countries consider the new relations of the Venezuelan government with the opposition very positive ...
ASIA/INDIA - IN ORISSA, THE FIRST TRIBAL UNIVERSITY FOR 27,000 INDIGENOUS STUDENTS Bhubaneswar - The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is the first tribal university in social sciences in the world. Situated in ...
ASIA/MYANMAR - CARDINAL BO: "THE POPE’S VISIT IS A BLESSING; SUPPORT FOR THE RIGHTS OF MUSLIM MINORITIES AND AUNG SAN SUU KYI" Yangon - "The Pope’s visit to Myanmar has been welcomed as a blessing for peace and harmony. Both the civil ...