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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Church: Justice, the path to reconciliation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The path of Justice is important to reach authentic reconciliation in Sri Lanka": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, head of social communications in the Archdiocese of Colombo. " ...
• 16 February 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14, 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Benghazi (Libya), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, O.F. ...
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  16 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Day of the dead city" to demand respect for the Constitution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced today, February 16, a day of protest, in which citizens are called not go to work or to school or to the streets. This is called ...
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  16 February 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Emigrants divided by the border, even for the Pope's Mass El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, February 15 at about 11 am local time, hundreds of families and residents in the border area between Mexico and the United States gathered on both sides of the border fence Anapra/S ...
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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas volunteer killed in Aleppo by a mortar shell Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - His name was Elias Abiad and was only 22 years old. The young volunteer of Caritas Syria was killed on Saturday, February 13th in Aleppo by mortar shells which fell in the area of Sulaymaniyah. T ...
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  16 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates the 21 "martyrs of Libya" a year after their massacre Samalot (Agenzia Fides) - Today numerous Bishops and priests of the Coptic Orthodox Church will take part in the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the church in Samalot in honor of the 21 Coptic Christians killed a year ago i ...
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  16 February 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - The Bishops: "Mercy is a political act par excellence" Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "Mercy is a political act par excellence" say the Catholic Bishops of the Republic of Congo to the politicians of their Country in the Message published at the end of their 44th Plenary Asse ...
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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Beginning of the Year of Education in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani diocese of Faisalabad, during the Jubilee of Mercy, the special "Year of Education" has begun. As reported to Fides, in the solemn opening ceremony, which took place on Febru ...
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  16 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Salah denounces: The Wayuu communities abandoned by all ZuletaRiohacha (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta, Bishop of Riohacha, speaking to a local radio station (Radio BLU) denounced the neglect faced by the native Wayuu communities in the department ...
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  16 February 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Privert interim president will lead the country towards a new government Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Interim President of Haiti, Jocelerme Privert, assumed his post on Sunday, February 14, in a ceremony at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, before members of the bicameral Parliament, ...
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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Be the face of the merciful Lord in the community and in society Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in mainland China experienced the beginning of Lent in communion with the universal Church, particularly in tune with the Jubilee of Mercy, as witnessed by the information ...
• 15 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The new Ugandan terrorist attacks of the ADF spread fear among the population in Eringeti Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The fear of new attacks has seized the inhabitants of Eringeti and its surroundings, after those committed by the terrorists of the ADF on 12 and 14 February. Eringeti is located in the territo ...
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  15 February 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus: despite the conflict, we build new churches Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A "gesture of revolt against death and destruction" is how Archbishop Samir Nassar, leader of the Maronite archdiocese of Damascus, describes the three chapels that the local Maronite community ...
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  15 February 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Election campaign begins: the challenge of poverty at the center Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for presidential elections in the Philippines has officially begun. There are five main presidential candidates: current Vice President Jojo Binay, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, ...
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  15 February 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The drama of famine increases: people queue in front of granaries, almost always empty Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "In February, the rainy season is expected to be at its height. But not this year, because of the merciless sun that is literally burning the harvest", writes Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfort mis ...