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• 5 March 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A march for Women's Day in Brasilia:"Religions for women's rights" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Religions for Women's rights" is the theme of the event which aims to bring together women of all religions in Brasilia today, March 5, on the occasion of International Women's Day to be celeb ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats and retaliation for health workers involved in vaccination against polio Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Health workers engaged throughout Pakistan in vaccinations against polio continue to find a lot of resistance and suffer threats from parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. Only last w ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Minister Jonan: in politics with faith, honesty, courage Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "A Catholic politician is he who gives, first of all, a good example with life": says to Agenzia Fides Ignasius Jonan, Indonesian Transport Minister, the only Catholic in the government of new p ...
• 5 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Islamic State takes advantage of the power vacuum Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The Islamic State in Libya is showing a great ability to take advantage where there are power vacuums and conquer territories" say local sources to Agenzia Fides from Libya, where the men of th ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Joseph Coutts: "God is close to us, in spite of evil" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus Christ died for us so that we could live. Evil is defeated and God's love triumphs. Even today, here in Pakistan": This is what His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi said in ...
• 5 March 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bolivians are asked to reflect on the vote Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago Bolivian President Morales said that he will not work with the local authorities of the opposition during a speech in the city of El Alto, and urged Bolivians to reflect on the ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Parliament commemorates the Armenian Genocide Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 4 March, the Syrian People's Assembly dedicated a session commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The initiative, promoted in particular by the Syrian Chr ...
• 5 March 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Meeting between representatives of Hezbollah and the Maronite Church on the election of the President Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting of dialogue to address the crux of the non-election of the President of the Lebanese Republic brought together on Tuesday, March 3 representatives of the Maronite Patriarchate and the S ...
• 5 March 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Church make uncultivated land available to produce food Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The uncultivated lands of dioceses, religious congregations and seminaries of Kenya will be used to produce food. This is what Fr. Celestino Bundi, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ( ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - Prayer for the sick is a crime Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The provincial authorities of Savannakhet have established that "the religious ceremony to pray for the healing of the sick, in accordance with their religious worship, is a violation of Art ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "God did not create borders": for 65 years a Mass for brotherhood between Chile and Argentina Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand Chileans and Argentines met again at the foot of the "Christ of Tromen", in the province of Neuquén (Argentina-Chile border), to attend Mass which every year, for 65 yea ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The appeal of 450 thousand working children: "We do not want to be exploited" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the exploitation of minors; the defense of labor as an educational and dignified factor for the human being; the problem of working conditions of boys, girls and adolescents, ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic communities pray for the persecuted Christians in the Middle East and around the world Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer vigil with Eucharistic adoration for the persecuted Christians around the world, especially for Christians in Syria and Iraq, was held in various Chinese Catholic communities on ...
• 4 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Peter the Apostle" Seminary in Bangalore htne s tmene st mat eenstenjene dstne ste Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 3, 2014, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Joseph Benedict Mathias, Jesuit (SJ) as Rector of the "St. Pe ...
• 4 March 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - Nearly half a million children will be vaccinated against polio Havana (Agenzia Fides) - From 1962, when polio was eliminated in Cuba to 2014, about 83 million doses of vaccine have been administered in the Country. Now, in this time of year the first of two stages of the National Ca ...