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28 March 2015
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Humanitarian crisis in Mindanao; a law has been submitted in the Philippine congress on the Muslim region
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Humanitarian crisis looms as thousands flee Mindanao conflict, in southern Philippines. Therefore a ceasefire is what a forum of non-governmental organizations and local associations call for, ...
28 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian leaders: a Commission of inquiry regarding the massacre in Youhanabad
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Political and religious leaders are asking the government in Punjab to set up a special Commission of inquiry regarding the massacre in Youhanabad, which deals with both the terrorist attack on M ...
28 March 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church supports the government in the fight against illiteracy
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Coptic Orthodox Church in charge of services and social activities, signed the protocol of the national project on Friday, March 27 to combat illiteracy prepared by the Egypt ...
28 March 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The denunciation of Bishops after the visit in Texas: "Why imprison the most vulnerable?"
Olinda and Recife (Agenzia Fides) - "After this visit, my main question is: why? Why imprison these vulnerable people, young and traumatized mothers who, with their children fled from persecution in their own countries?" ...
27 March 2015
ASIA/VIETNAM - The first house of formation of the Guanellian’s has been inaugurated
Ho Chi Minh (Agenzia Fides) - The first house of formation of the Servants of Charity (Guanellian’s) in Vietnam has been inaugurated. As Fides learns, the inauguration took place on March 24 in the district of Go Vap. ...
27 March 2015
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "WeCare!" Foundation: support to vulnerable women and marginalized children and young people
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Traditionally the primary emphasis in the parishes in Port Moresby is placed on worship, on the sacraments, on devotional practices", said Fr. John M. Glynn, head of the "WeCare!" Foundati ...
27 March 2015
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Group of Spanish Catholic volunteers give support to Nicaraguan children
León (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 years ago a group of faithful of a Spanish parish in Madrid traveled to the city of León, Nicaragua. They met malnourished children and families with problems related to alcohol. Faced w ...
27 March 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV has passed away
Chicago (Agenzia Fides) - His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East passed away on Thursday morning, March 26 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Patriarch Mar Dinkha was ...
27 March 2015
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Delegation of Bishops to visit a detention center for immigrant families
San Antonio (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will visit today, Friday, March 27, a detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas, to learn more about t ...
27 March 2015
AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the eve of the vote 90% of the areas freed from Boko Haram; "Why was it not done before?"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria to vote tomorrow, March 28, to elect the new President. "The Nigerian press has already made predictions that the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, will get two-thirds of the vo ...
27 March 2015
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni returns to Iraq to express the closeness and affection of the Pope to displaced families
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis has expressed his concern for Christian families and other victims of violence who have been expelled from their homes and villages in Iraq, in particular those from Mosul and ...
26 March 2015
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - More than 6 million to vote: the Bishops call for free and fair elections
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Bolivia invite the national community to exercise the civil right to vote in good conscience, in freedom and with attention to the common good of citizens. The President of the ...
26 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Guaranteed education to Shama and Shehzad’s children, Christian couple burned alive
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Suleman and Sonia go to school. Poonam will also go. The three children are children of Shama and Shahzad Masih, the Christian couple tortured and burned alive by a mob of Muslims on charges of b ...
26 March 2015
ASIA/INDONESIA - Violations of human rights of indigenous peoples: first investigation
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - indigenous people of Indonesia have been the victims of violations of human rights, of the right to property, of the right to a decent and safe life for many years. This is what we read in the f ...
26 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Jinnah Institute: "Continuous and constant violence against religious minorities"
Lahore (Ageniza Fides) - "Violence against religious minorities in Pakistan was continuous and constant in the period 2012-2014. Forced conversions, kidnappings, damage to areas of worship, sexual violence and targeted k ...
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