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23 February 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa: "We must hold elections, the agreements must be respected"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - No representative of the Catholic Church in Venezuela will participate in the round table for dialogue between the government and the opposition, until the electoral path announced last year is ...
23 February 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Peace Center: "The answer to terrorism is unity"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Our response to terrorism is unity. We will continue to promote peace, justice, harmony with all men and women of good will in Pakistan, in the face of the terrorist threat that has bloodied the ...
23 February 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - After the jihadist threat, two Coptic Christians killed in Sinai
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Two Coptic Christians were found murdered on Wednesday, February 22 in North Sinai peninsula, after a video message announcing new attacks presumably by Jihadists against the Christian community h ...
23 February 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - Human rights: in Mexico and Central America a sad record of violations
Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The Annual Report 2016 of Amnesty International was presented yesterday, February 22, which states that in 2016 there was an acceleration of the human rights crisis in Latin America. Countr ...
23 February 2017
AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana to be re-consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Francis has confirmed Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello as his Envoy to preside over the Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Vespers for the re-consecration of Ghana to the Sacred Heart of J ...
23 February 2017
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the College of St Peter Apostle: "Have a great love for your mission"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Bishops, in entrusting you to our Congregation, felt that here you would have had an adequate «knowledge» of Christ and here you would have learned the meaning of that great and yet ...
22 February 2017
ASIA/INDONESIA - Health education seminars for students and a medical mission for over 600 sick people
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - Since their arrival in the diocese of Maumere on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2009, the religious Camillians have promoted the celebration of World Day of the Sick with various initiative ...
22 February 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops of Ibadan: "It is time for the government to prove that it can mantain its promises"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "After two years of the current government administration, Nigerians must not be told that the evils of the present moment stem from choices of past administrations. Our governments, at federal a ...
22 February 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More than 650 participants at the V National Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, February 25 the V National Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (CONIAM) begins in Caracas, with the arrival of 650 participants from across the country. The aim of the ...
22 February 2017
AMERICA/HAITI - About 4,000 prisoners awaiting justice, deaths due to starvation and degradation increase
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 21 February, at St. Anne's Church in Port au Prince, Father Jean Robert Louis celebrated in the presence of family members, the funeral of 20 inmates of the National Penitentia ...
22 February 2017
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Israeli army begins the demolition of Bedouin villages. Even the "School" at risk
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli army bulldozers have already taken action to implement the announced demolition of Bedouin villages situated within the territories of the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in ...
22 February 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lynching in Lahore: 42 Christians convicted of terrorism
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Lahore anti-terrorist court sentenced 42 Christians for terrorism. As Fides learns, the Court pronounced the sentence for Christian citizens accused of lynching which occurred after the terroris ...
22 February 2017
VATICAN - Pope's Appeal for South Sudan: commit not to stop at making statements
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the general audience today in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father launched an appealed for the tragic situation in South Suda, with these words: "Of particular concern is the painful ...
22 February 2017
AFRICA/MALI - Bogota sends a special anti-kidnapping team to investigate the kidnapping of the Colombian nun
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The special Guala anti-kidnapping group of Colombia's National Police was sent to Mali to help local authorities to find Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti of the Congregation of the Francisca ...
22 February 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - One more seat reserved for Christians in the new bill on parliament
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A bill to review the distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the different Iraqi electoral districts, published by the relevant parliamentary institutions on Monday, February ...
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