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17 March 2015
AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church assists 230,000 flood victims
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Clothes, food, money and other aid, for a total of 1 billion kwachas (about 192 thousand US dollars), were distributed by the Bishops of Malawi to more than 230,000 displaced flood victims (se ...
17 March 2015
ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church calls for a law to ensure emigrants the recovery of Lebanese nationality
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai urged the government of Lebanon to work on the bill again to allow immigrants from the Country of the Cedars to recover Lebanese nationality. The invitatio ...
17 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archbishop of Lahore at the funeral of the victims of Youhanabad: "Be men of peace"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not need and do not want a civil war. We Christians are people of peace. Do not let the pain cloud our eyes. What future do we want to build for Pakistan? A future of harmony and reconcili ...
17 March 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian government reviews Islamic religious education programs to combat extremism
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Awqaf - in charge of endowments to mosques and religious communities - announced that it has completed a draft revision of the general programs of religious education that will pro ...
16 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A "Day of Prayer for our martyrs" after the attacks on churches
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Time of mourning and prayer for the Church in Pakistan: today, Monday, March 16, the Catholic faithful celebrate a "special day of prayer for the innocent lives of the martyrs". This was announce ...
16 March 2015
VATICAN – Pope Francis: "Our brothers' and sisters' blood is shed only because they are Christians"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Angelus prayer with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, Sunday, March 15, the Holy Father Francis expressed his deep sorrow for the tragic events in Pakistan, invoking th ...
16 March 2015
EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni: Africa needs encouragement and solidarity, not migration, or the purchase of weapons and looting
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In Christ, this beloved continent of Comboni, where he wanted to end his life, needs courageous and prophetic political leaders, who can be inspired by the Gospel; Bishops and priests according to ...
16 March 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The "Justice and Peace" Commission on the massacre of Christians: "Police negligent "
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The protection provided by the authorities was "minimal", despite warnings already launched in recent days, given the threats received by the churches; and "agents present at the time of the atta ...
16 March 2015
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious leaders: "Development and the fight against corruption to stop Boko Haram"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hatred and mistrust sown by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria are likely to last for years even after the disappearance of the Islamist group. This is what emerged from the seminar titled "Religious ...
16 March 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: a law against preachers who incite violence is needed
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq, bloodied by sectarian strife and in the hands of jihadists, a law to prosecute religious preachers who incite violence and therefore threaten the peaceful coexistence of citizens belong ...
16 March 2015
ASIA/NEPAL - Nepalese teenagers say no to forced marriage
Bajura (Agenzia Fides) - The district of Bajura is located 900 km west of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Here there are some of the most remote villages with the highest number of development problems in the Country. A ...
16 March 2015
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - "Year of Reconciliation" from July 29, 2015
Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice and Peace" Commissions must be at the center of reconciliation, peace and development pastoral programs promoted by various Episcopal Conferences of Africa. This was stated by His Exc. ...
16 March 2015
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Appeal of the Church in the Dominican Republic and Haiti: "Respect the human dignity of migrants"
Mao-Monte Cristi (Agenzia Fides) - Following several incidents of violence against migrants which occurred on both sides of the island of Hispaniola, which are creating a clash between Dominican Republic and Haiti, due t ...
16 March 2015
EUROPE/SPAIN - Pastor of the Shrine of Virxe do Cristal killed
Ourense (Agenzia Fides) - More than five hundred people and a hundred priests attended the funeral of father Adolfo Enríquez (77 years old), celebrated at the Shrine of Virxe do Cristal, near Vilanova dos Infantes (muni ...
16 March 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - The US "open" up to talks with Assad. Archbishop Hindo: forced choice
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The availability of the US Administration to negotiate with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is an "option that should have already taken place" and at this point is "a forced choice, if on ...
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