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• 25 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shots fired against agents in front of St. Peter’s church in Lahore Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in Lahore, capital of Punjab in Pakistan, especially in the Christian community: as Fides learns, yesterday two masked men on a motorcycle, fired shots against police officer ...
• 25 March 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Bolivia Misionera", a new website committed to formation and permanent Mission La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Communications of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference has sent Fides a note of the presentation of the new website "Bolivia Misionera" where you can find information about the dif ...
• 25 March 2015
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Minors exploited and underpaid Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Child population is around two million in Honduras and 14% are involved in the labor market. According to the National Institute of Statistics 371 386 children between 5 and 17 years of age ...
• 25 March 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Economic incentives for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Government of Bangladesh has recently introduced economic incentives for pregnant women and children under five years of age in some selected districts, particularly in the north of the Countr ...
• 25 March 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Concern of the Church: peace talks must continue Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The possibility to postpone the establishment of a formal table for dialogue for peace between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) would lead to stop peace talks with ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Elections can be held in Maiduguri" says the Bishop Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation has improved, and I think it likely that elections can be held in the city of Maiduguri on March 28, even if not in the whole Borno State" says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mg ...
• 25 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - March 26: Day of Prayer for Peace in the fifth centenary of Saint Teresa Avila (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Thursday 26 March, all the Carmelite communities around the world will experience a special day of prayer for peace, in the way they consider most appropriate and adapted to their situat ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President Sisi endorses the new regulation for the election of the Coptic Pope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved yesterday, Tuesday, March 24, the decree containing the rules and procedures for the election of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Sourc ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Islamic State claim new attacks Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic State has claimed two attacks carried out respectively in a suburb of Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica, and in Misurata in Tripolitania. In the first case a suicide bomber is of Tunisi ...
• 25 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christians accused of the lynching of two suspected terrorists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians, Sohail Johnason and Yousaf Kamran, according to a video in the possession of the police, are accused of being responsible for the lynching of two suspected terrorists, which took ...
• 25 March 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Armenian Parliament votes a statement condemning the Assyrian and Greek Genocides Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, March 24 the Armenian Parliament voted a resolution condemning the massacres against the Assyrians and Greeks carried out in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. The resolution w ...
• 24 March 2015
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - A missionary: "Lee Kuan Yew, a man of dialogue and religious harmony" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Lee Kuan Yew managed to create a country that is a model of peaceful coexistence among religions, in which there was genuine religious freedom. After the race riots in 1969, harmony among eth ...
• 24 March 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic community towards Easter Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, Chinese Catholics are living their spiritual journey towards Easter with various initiatives. The communities are organizing spiritual retreats. The parish of the diocese of Xuan ...
• 24 March 2015
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Summit of the Americas: the Vatican Secretary of State will be present, for the first time Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Deputy Foreign Minister of Panama, Luis Miguel Hincapie, confirmed the presence of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, at the VII Cumbre de Las Americas ("Summit of the Americas" ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – Angola, a nation of contradictions Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Angola is a nation of contradictions. Children die because they do not have medicines. In many communities there are no schools, mosquito nets and toilets. The only sources where one can get drin ...