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• 24 March 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - No ringing of bells for the Armenian churches in the Turkish territory for the hundred years since the Genocide Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred ringing of bells in all Armenian churches of the planet at 19.15 - hour chosen to symbolically recall the year 1915 - and in this way commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Ar ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Inexperience and corruption are the cause of civil war" says the Bishop of Wau Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Claims of ethnicity are too simplistic and offensive to people who come from the area. Many times, African conflicts are reduced to clans, tribes. It is not as simple as that", said Mgr. Rudolf De ...
• 24 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The General Vicar of Lahore: "Release the innocent among the Christians arrested" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, but there is still a lot of fear in Youhanabad. The faithful are afraid of police intervention and arrests but also of revenge on behalf of Muslim groups. In any case, the ...
• 24 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Islamic State shows a video of an Assyrian Christian who "converted" to Islam Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The militants of the Islamic State have spread on the sites under their control, a video documenting the alleged "conversion" to Islam of one of the Assyrian Christian hostages they captured du ...
• 24 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Permanent Council of Cei: moment of prayer for martyrs, missionaries and lay people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Tomorrow we Bishops of the Permanent Council will dedicate a special moment of prayer for the martyrs, missionaries and lay people, of today: we want them to feel the closeness of our love and of ...
• 24 March 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "Young people want to know more about Romero" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Today El Salvador lives a special day: across the country commemorative celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the assassination of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Rome ...
• 23 March 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A priest killed after a violent attempted robbery Sincelejo (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Sincelejo (department of Sucre), about 900 km north of Bogotà, father Fernando Meza Luna, pastor of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, in the neighborhood of Versailles was shot ...
• 23 March 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Catholic schools against bullying Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic primary and secondary schools in Sydney have gathered over 1900 schools across Australia to demonstrate against bullying. In the statement sent to Agenzia Fides by the archdiocese sa ...
• 23 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of the young Christian tortured and killed by the police goes unpunished Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the young Christian Zubair Masih, tortured and killed by the Pakistani police on 7 March will go unpunished. The young boy, completely innocent, was arrested by the police just becaus ...
• 23 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Day of Missionary Martyrs: 1,062 missionaries killed in the world from 1980 to 2014 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On March 24, we celebrate the "Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of the Missionary Martyrs", promoted by the Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies, on the anniversary of the assassin ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The conviction for the Salafist leader who tore up a copy of the Bible confirmed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence to five years in prison against the preacher Ahmed Mahmoud, also known by the nickname Abu Islam, convicted for having torn the pages of a Bible ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - After two days of bombing, the situation is calm in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is quite calm. We do not know yet how long the calm will last", report local sources to Agenzia Fides from the capital of Libya. The government of Prime Minister Abdul ...
• 23 March 2015
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Canadian Bishops in solidarity with CELAM: Defense of creation and problems regarding mines Ottawa (Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of Canada, His Exc. Mgr. Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau, expressed solidarity with and support for the Episcopal Council of Latin America CELAM in ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We need a change in policy, people are tired" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There has to be change in the policy of Nigeria, no matter who wins on March 28", said Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria. On March 20, in his speech for ...
• 23 March 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Palestinian President invited to the canonization on 17 May Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, has invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to attend Mass for the canonization of the Blessed Palestinians, Sister Marie Alphonsine Ghattas an ...