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5 November 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN – Amnesty: it is necessary to do justice and reform the blasphemy law
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani authorities must bring to justice those responsible for the killing of the Christian couple accused of blasphemy". This is what Amnesty International says in a note sent to Agenzia ...
5 November 2014
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Cardinal Ouédraogo: "There is a desire for dialogue to end the crisis"
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a desire for dialogue to lead the Country out of the crisis", said Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, in an interview wi ...
5 November 2014
AFRICA/EGYPT - For the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch extremist groups are a product of the West
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - Extremist groups, with their large-scale offensive are upsetting the geopolitical scenarios in the Middle East, and are also a product of wrong strategies pursued in the West. This was denounced ...
5 November 2014
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The fight against drugs should be considered a State matter
Posadas (Agenzia Fides) – Drugs are a scourge that is part of the death structure, and is "an evil that is growing rapidly in our country, it is uncontrolled, produces silence and fear, forces citizens to be mere spect ...
5 November 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Ulema Council calls for "an impartial investigation" into the events in Kasur
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) calls for "an impartial investigation on what happened in Kot Radha Kishan in Kasur district, where a Christian couple was burnt alive" (see Fides 04/11/2014): th ...
5 November 2014
AFRICA/CONGO DR - New massacres in Beni, the people are exasperated and protest in the streets
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Massacres in Beni, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo continue, despite the visit of President Joseph Kabila in the city in order to reassure the people, terrified by the violence ...
4 November 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Christian Sawan Masih, on death row for blasphemy, prays and remains hopeful
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sawan Masih, a Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy, who since 2014 has been on death row in the prison of Faisalabad, remains confident about his release: this is what the Christian Joseph ...
4 November 2014
ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: "With silence, the government becomes an accomplice in the attacks on minorities"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new government of nationalist leader Narendra Modi is not openly against minorities, but we are sad and worried about what is happening in India: The government says and does nothing to s ...
4 November 2014
AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "postpone the African Cup of Nations due to the Ebola situation"
Accra (Agenzia Fides) -The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has called on the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to postpone the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) 2015 scheduled for next year in Morocco due ...
4 November 2014
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Two thousand secondary school teachers gathered for the XII Education Forum
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - There will be about 2,000 headmasters and secondary school teachers who will gather on November 5 to participate in the XII Education Forum whose theme will be "To educate: a passion which ...
4 November 2014
AFRICA/KENYA - The comfort of the Church for the victims of the attack in the area of Lake Turkana
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The attack against a police contingent carried out by an armed group in the early morning hours of November 1st in Kapedo, in the Lake Turkana area, in northern Kenya caused 22 victims. Among ...
4 November 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - The Church of St. Ephrem in Mosul could soon be transformed into a mosque
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the northeastern city of Mosul, Iraq, since June in the hands of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), the Syrian Orthodox church dedicated to St. Ephrem has been emptied and there are rumor ...
4 November 2014
ASIA/TURKEY - Christian schools subsidized by the State increase
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - There are 55 schools belonging to foundations and institutions related to the Christian communities in Turkey already entitled to receive financial support from the State. Of these, 36 belong to ...
4 November 2014
AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation of the Bishop of Lugazi and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 4 November 2014 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Lugazi (Uganda) by His Exc. Mgr. Ssekamanya Matthias, in accordance with canon 401 ...
4 November 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christians burned alive in a brick-kiln on charges of blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian couple, Shahzad 26 years old and Shama 24 years old, were burned to death by a Muslim mob, from five villages in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), who accused them of committing ...
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