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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Petition for rights of displaced Christians amidst preparations for battle to take back Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – While US military sources confirm that the next objective in the fight against Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) will be to take back Mosul, a petition has been forwarded by Iraqi Chaldean Rae ...
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  2 March 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Police arrest suspected informer for Christmas 2011 attack on the church of St Teresa Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The local police have arrested a person suspected of taking part in preparations for the Christmas 2011 attack on the church of Saint Teresa of Madalla, near Abuja, capital of Nigeria. The incident ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nation marks fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – With special prayers in churches in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Khushpur and Sargodha and in many other places, Pakistan commemorated Shahbaz Bhatti on the 5th anniversary of his assas ...
• 1 March 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appointment of new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Brian Joseph Lucas Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 1 November 2015, appointed as the new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
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  1 March 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - America's Catholic Bishops: “encourage prophets of mercy” Tampa (Agenzia Fides) – According to a first report on a meeting of American continent’s Catholic Bishops held in Tampa, Florida (USA), 22 - 25 February (see Fides 23/02/2016), despite the complexity of issues f ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Sacrificed minors good omens for political elections Mukono (Agenzia Fides) – Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM) based in Uganda has reported at least six cases of mutilation and killing of children as sacrifices to obtain “good luck ” in recent elections held in t ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Newly launched TV news chanel declares “war on war” Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – In the heart of the Middle East region torn apart by bloody conflict, a new satellite TV channel of Information , proposing news “ from the Catholic point of view”, in order to “buil ...
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  1 March 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Two hundred mayors unite to combat drug trafficking and defend persons most vulnerable Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – More than 200 mayors from all over Argentina with various political positions, and supported by representatives and leaders of different religious groups, met yesterday to sign a paper o ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Jesuit run East Asian Pastoral Institute marks 50 years of pastoral service in the spirit of Vatican II Manila (Agenzia Fides) – It has become a point of reference in Asia for primary and on-going pastoral formation in the spirit of Vatican II: for 50 years the East Asian Pastoral Institute EAPI based in Manila, has ir ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Organisation asks President al Sisi to grant an amnesty to Copt youths wrongly condemned for offending Islam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Karim Kamal, founder of the Union General of Copts for the Motherland, has asked the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al Sisi to intervene regarding the case of a group of Copt youths recently a ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti, diocese collects testimony for 'Martyrdom' Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – At this time of year when Pakistan's Catholics mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic, MP for Minority Groups assassinated in Islamabad on 2 March 2011, the ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Entire community reflects on education and early marriages on the opening day of the new school Nguluwe (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 February, Opening day for newly renovated Nguluwe School , (see Fides 1/2/2016), was a great success. A report sent to Fides by Italian NGO CCS Italia (Centro Cooperazione Sviluppo Onlu ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - “Young people, continue to have hope about living your life in Africa” Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Insecurity , terrorism, persecution of Christians, the migratory crisis, corruption and bad-government, manipulation of national constitutions by political leaders to remain in power; lack of r ...
• 29 February 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New PMS National Director , Rev. Pedige Basil Rohan Fernando Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 October 2015, appointed as new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sr ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts: “Our mission is to spread love in a context of violence and terrorism” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “As Pakistani Christians we face numerous challenges every day: many will have heard of the so-called blasphemy law and the emblematic case of Asia Bibi, an innocent Christian mother sentenc ...