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• 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 ...
• 14 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Innocent young Christian tortured to death by police in Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A young Christian was tortured to death by the Pakistani police after his mother was accused of stealing gold and money from her Muslim employer. 20-year-old Zubair Masih was taken away by a grou ...
• 14 March 2015
  AFRICA - "Africa, a continent on the move", Africa is always more part of the global village Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The conference, "Africa, the continent on the move" is taking place at the Auditorium of Seraphicum in Rome, organized by the Comboni missionaries. "From colonialism to the emergence of independen ...
• 14 March 2015
  EUROPE - COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly begins March 18 Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - The COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly opens on Wednesday 18 March. The COMECE Bishops from all over Europe will analyse the principal policy areas on which the Commission sets out to work. They wi ...
• 14 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jubilee seen from Aleppo. Bishop Abou Khazen: only mercy can save us from hatred and heal wounds Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - An extraordinary Jubilee of mercy, announced yesterday by Pope Francis during the penitential liturgy which he presided in St Peter's, arouses reflections among the Christians in Syria, starting ...
• 14 March 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Instability and violence against the religious Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Concern in the Catholic community of Haiti: according to the latest report of the Haitian Conference of Religious (CHR) on violence unleashed against religious institutions. As highlighte ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Hindu girls kidnapped and forced to marry: 500 cases a year Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – There have been at least 500 confirmed cases, in a year and a half, of girls belonging to religious minorities, Christian and Hindu, who have been kidnapped by Muslims and forced to get mar ...
• 12 March 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Gang attacks against religious institutes continue Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sick of St. Camillus were recently the subject of an armed robbery in Port au Prince. In the middle of the night the nuns were attac ...
• 12 March 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "The saint of all El Salvador" - beatification of Mgr. Romero on 23 May San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The "Bishop martyr" of El Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, will be beatified on May 23 in his hometown: the announcement was made by the Postulator of the cause of beatificatio ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Delhi Police has launched a Facebook page to protect the safety of Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Delhi Police has launched a Facebook page to address grievances of Christian institutions and individuals in the wake of a series of attacks on Christian institutions in the city. On the new ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The monastery of St. George in Mosul damaged, but not destroyed Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists of the Islamic State (Is) have damaged the façade of the ancient monastery of St. George in Mosul. But the church – report Iraqi sources to Agenzia Fides – has not been destroye ...
• 12 March 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Alarm for the recruitment of young Muslims in eastern Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Young Congolese Muslims are recruited in North and South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The alarm is launched by some articles in the Belgian and Congolese press. "The pheno ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/JAPAN - The disabled at the centre of the Conference on the reduction of disaster risk Sendai (Agenzia Fides) - Natural disasters are destroying the globe, both in Western Countries and in the poorest Countries in the world. Over the past decade there have been several natural disasters like the tsunami in ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops: necessity to rebuild Gaza, support schools, help refugees and immigrants Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal to the "reconstruction of Gaza to help the thousands of families left homeless after the last conflict", a reminder of the centrality of the educational work of Christian Scho ...