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• 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 ...
• 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 ...