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22 September 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
22 September 2015
ASIA/INDIA - The Andhra Pradesh government assures support to Churches
Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Indian state of Andra Pradesh assures services and rights to Christian minorities, and the protection of church properties: is what emerged from the recent meeting in ...
22 September 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
21 September 2015
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The story of a missionary: "Making Jesus present among poor people who struggle to get by"
Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "A year has gone by since I started my 'fidei donum' service in the Church of Robe in Ethiopia, so I thought I would tell you about the progress made": writes to Fides Fr. Giuseppe Ghirelli, curre ...
21 September 2015
AMERICA/MEXICO - Free surgeries for children and adults with cleft lip and palate
Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - 44 people, including children and adults have benefited from free surgeries for cleft lip by the System of Integral Development of the Family (DIF) - Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. For the secon ...
21 September 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against a Christian family to steal the house and land
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian family risked being burned alive due to the attack of a group of Muslims who wanted to steal their home and their land. As reported to Fides by Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill ...
21 September 2015
ASIA/LAOS - One of the Christians condemned for praying for a sick woman has died in prison
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Tiang, a Christian from the village of Huey, in the district of Atsaphangthong, part of the territory of the province of Savannakhet died in prison, because of a serious complication of diab ...
21 September 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - New Assyrian Patriarch elected. And the patriarchal seat could return to Iraq
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East will be called Mar Gewargis Sliwa III, and the liturgical ceremony for his inauguration will be held in Erbil on 27 September. He succeeds Ma ...
21 September 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemn the violence at the Temple Mount
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem express "serious concern" about the recent violence carried out on the Temple Mount in the clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian Muslims, and expres ...
21 September 2015
AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Honduras is sick of hate", warns Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday Honduran Cardinal Mgr. Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, during Sunday Mass said that the country is full of hate and needs to change, because "the futur ...
21 September 2015
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Mgr. Escobar Alas denounces: "The new tax will in particular hit low-income families"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, expressed the hope yesterday that the Legislative Assembly will discuss the "special contribution" bill for safety and ...
18 September 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - The Marists in Aleppo: there is a risk of getting used to horror
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The reason why we do not write to you on a regular basis from Aleppo, although you continue to ask news about us, is because we think that the repetition of the denunciation of the crimes commit ...
18 September 2015
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Thousands of civilians disabled by the war without any assistance
Karadiyanaru (Agenzia Fides) - The decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, which ended six years ago, continues to have heavy consequences on many of the victims maimed during the conflict, during which more than 100,000 pe ...
18 September 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Local elections in Punjab: Christians say "no" to discrimination
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Equal opportunities and citizenship for all, without discrimination: is what organizations in Pakistan and Christian associations, political leaders, human rights defenders, activists and intelle ...
18 September 2015
ASIA/INDIA - A Carmelite nun killed in Kerala
Palai (Agenzia Fides) - Murder as a result of a robbery: this is the track that investigators are following after the death of Carmelite Sister Amala Valummel, 69 years old, who was found dead in a convent in Palai, in K ...
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