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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops on the future of India: "No to religious nationalism, it is urgent to defend life" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faith came to India thanks to great saints and apostles such as St. Thomas and St. Francis Xavier, and "India is what it is today, thanks to Christianity". Today the nation is cal ...
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  12 February 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New LaSallian community in the heart of the Amazon: "a return to the roots, with the poorest among the poor" Tabatinga (Agenzia Fides) - The Brothers of the Christian Schools have opened a community in the heart of the Amazon, where they will be at the service, with their educational charisma, of mainly fishermen and indigenous ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Desecrators of a statue of Mary "condemned" to memorize verses from the Quran’s Al-Omran surah on the Mother of Jesus Akkar (Agenzia Fides) - A Lebanese judge ordered two Muslim young men who insulted Christianity to memorize verses from the Quran’s Al-Omran surah which glorifies Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The sentence, ordered by ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Free medical assistance and home visits for patients in Okara and Sahiwal Okara (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 11 February the 26th World Day of the Sick was celebrated all over the world. In Pakistan the event was particularly felt in the two districts of Okara and Sahiwal, diocese of Islamabad, ...
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  12 February 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops: "It is urgent that ecclesial groups assume the commitment of being Church that goes forth" Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent that those who exercise authority listen to citizens and do not make decisions based on personal and political interests". This is how the Bishops of Panama expressed themselves a ...
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  9 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Bishops are on the Dalits side Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Bishops, gathered in Bangalore for the assembly of the Indian Bishops' Conference (which brings together the Pastors of the Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara rites) have reaffi ...
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  9 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mgr. Bertin: ISIS has arrived in Somalia; "The interests of various international partners increase the Somali instability" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - ISIS has arrived in Somalia. Reports of Western secret services speak of the presence of Islamic State cells. They are made up of former al Shabaab militants (Somali jihadist organization link ...
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  9 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Arshad: "My dream for Pakistan: peace and harmony" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "My dream for the Church and for all of Pakistan is that people can live in peace, harmony and hope. Peace and hope are the words of my episcopal motto: these are two essential and necessary v ...
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  9 February 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Paraguayan Chaco missionaries denounce the guilty abandonment of the State Puerto Casado (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we feel compelled to share certain concerns and challenges, because the accentuated crisis of public and private morality; of political life and justice; of inequality and so ...
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  9 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Various areas of Nigeria are on the verge of civil war" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Various parts of Nigeria live in a situation of almost civil war". This is the alarm presented by the Bishops of Nigeria directly to the President of the Nigerian Federation, Muhammadu Buhari, du ...
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  9 February 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The official inauguration of the church of the "Coptic Martyrs of Libya" scheduled for February 15th Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The church dedicated to the 21 Coptic martyrs beheaded in Libya in 2015 by cutthroats affiliated to the so-called Islamic State (Daesh) will be officially inaugurated next February 15th, on the da ...
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  EUROPE/IRELAND - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Martin Anthony Kelly CSSp Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 November 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Martin Anthony Kelly of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (CSSp ...
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  31 January 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Parolin, “Why we are in dialogue with China” We publish the interview with Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin launched today on Vatican Insider, a religious information website of the Italian daily La Stampa Interview with the Secretary of St ...
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  30 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Civil society: "The government must stop hate crimes against minorities" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Deep concern for the continuous episodes of senseless violence in the country, especially those that target minorities", and also "for the weak response of law enforcement agencies and instit ...
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  30 January 2018
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Appeal of Salvadoran Bishops: Rights of migrants and responsible vote San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of four bishops of El Salavador will travel to the United States to meet the Bishops of the country, with the aim of coordinating actions that help resolve the situation of Sal ...