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• 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 ...
• 23 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics: "Close schools in sign of protest against the violence on Christians" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand the closure of the schools of the Archdiocese of Mumbai on March 25, to protest against the attacks on Christian institutions": this is what Catholics of the state of Maharashtra say, ...
• 23 March 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Caritas supports 80 thousand people without food or health care Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - Charity and social justice are part of the institutional mission of Caritas Mexico, that has just published a document in which all the initiatives carried out in a year in the Mexican state o ...
• 20 March 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three murders a day: unprecedented wave of aggression, crimes and violence Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At least 164 people were killed in violence between January and February in Haiti: this was stated by the National Commission Jistis ak Lape (JILAP, in Creole, Justice and Peace in Italia ...
• 20 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every minute a child dies due to lack of drinking water Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the next World Water Day, scheduled for March 22, the NGO Plan International recalled that every year about half a million children die due to the lack of access to drinking in ...
• 20 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Thottunkal: "India should be concerned about human rights, not just cows" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "India should be as concerned about its people, as it is about its cows": said Indian Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, the head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI). The ...
• 20 March 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisians, peaceful people who want a democratic Country are those who suffer the most" says the Director of the PMS Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Tunisians are deeply saddened because they are the first to experience the violence of the terrorists", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...