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• 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 ...
• 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 ...