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• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Hindu girls kidnapped and forced to marry: 500 cases a year Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – There have been at least 500 confirmed cases, in a year and a half, of girls belonging to religious minorities, Christian and Hindu, who have been kidnapped by Muslims and forced to get mar ...
• 12 March 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Gang attacks against religious institutes continue Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sick of St. Camillus were recently the subject of an armed robbery in Port au Prince. In the middle of the night the nuns were attac ...
• 12 March 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "The saint of all El Salvador" - beatification of Mgr. Romero on 23 May San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The "Bishop martyr" of El Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, will be beatified on May 23 in his hometown: the announcement was made by the Postulator of the cause of beatificatio ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Delhi Police has launched a Facebook page to protect the safety of Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Delhi Police has launched a Facebook page to address grievances of Christian institutions and individuals in the wake of a series of attacks on Christian institutions in the city. On the new ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The monastery of St. George in Mosul damaged, but not destroyed Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists of the Islamic State (Is) have damaged the façade of the ancient monastery of St. George in Mosul. But the church – report Iraqi sources to Agenzia Fides – has not been destroye ...
• 12 March 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Alarm for the recruitment of young Muslims in eastern Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Young Congolese Muslims are recruited in North and South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The alarm is launched by some articles in the Belgian and Congolese press. "The pheno ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/JAPAN - The disabled at the centre of the Conference on the reduction of disaster risk Sendai (Agenzia Fides) - Natural disasters are destroying the globe, both in Western Countries and in the poorest Countries in the world. Over the past decade there have been several natural disasters like the tsunami in ...
• 12 March 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops: necessity to rebuild Gaza, support schools, help refugees and immigrants Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal to the "reconstruction of Gaza to help the thousands of families left homeless after the last conflict", a reminder of the centrality of the educational work of Christian Scho ...
• 11 March 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - UN report: positive developments but still restrictions on religious freedom Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - There are "positive developments, but also a number of serious problems regarding religious freedom in Vietnam": says the report presented to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations by the ...
• 11 March 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - A new church will be built in Cuba, the first since 1959 Pinar del Rio (Agenzia Fides) - The Cuban Catholic Church will be able to build a new place of worship on the island, which will be the first time since the revolution, in 1959. According to the information of the Archdi ...
• 11 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Forced mass sterilizations continue Bilaspur (Agenzia Fides) - The freedom and personal dignity of Indian women continue to be trampled. From 2013 to 2014 over 4 million forced sterilizations were carried out in the country. There was turmoil in the State ...
• 11 March 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops: "Be a poor Church for the poor" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our ministry now has a clear aim: to be a poor Church for the poor. Pope Francis' visit in Korea, in August 2014, is a starting point for the change and renewal of the Korean Church". This ...
• 11 March 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA – A study of the Church: the factors of internal conflict Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Youth unemployment, unequal distribution of resources, land disputes, fights between ethnic and political groups. These are the potential causes of conflict in Kenya according to a study sponsor ...
• 11 March 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Uncertainty about the fate of Christians held hostage by jihadists Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of the villages of Khabur valley taken hostage by jihadists of the Islamic State (Is) continue to be in their hands, and their fate is tied to the evolution of the military balan ...
• 11 March 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 400 years of evangelization in Posadas: "we share the joy of evangelizing" Misiones (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Posadas celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first "reduction" of the Jesuits, called Our Lady of the Annunciation of Itapúa, which was the nucleus from which ...