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• 17 March 2015
  ASIA/INDIA – The Bishops: "Violence against nuns, a crime of which India should be ashamed" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Physical violence inflicted on religious women, the rape of an old and sick nun, the desecration of consecrated hosts, are ruthless and inhumane acts, of which all citizens of India should be ...
• 17 March 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Appeal for the victims of Cyclone Pam: 54 000 children affected Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Appeals have been launched to help the thousands of people affected by a devastating cyclone that has battered Vanuatu and other parts of the Pacific. Martin Teulan, National Director of Cathol ...
• 17 March 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Diocese of Cochabamba in solidarity with the children of TIPNIS Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Next Sunday will be the Fifth Sunday of Lent, and we want to make a collection in all the churches, in all communities of Cochabamba, with a key objective, namely, our solidarity, our love f ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Justice and Peace: "Our initiatives for conflict resolution and environmental protection" Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - A structure or a continental reconciliation committee in the event of conflicts, a committee that is able to go wherever there is need for mediation. This is one of the decisions taken at the e ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church assists 230,000 flood victims Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Clothes, food, money and other aid, for a total of 1 billion kwachas (about 192 thousand US dollars), were distributed by the Bishops of Malawi to more than 230,000 displaced flood victims (se ...
• 17 March 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church calls for a law to ensure emigrants the recovery of Lebanese nationality Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai urged the government of Lebanon to work on the bill again to allow immigrants from the Country of the Cedars to recover Lebanese nationality. The invitatio ...
• 17 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archbishop of Lahore at the funeral of the victims of Youhanabad: "Be men of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not need and do not want a civil war. We Christians are people of peace. Do not let the pain cloud our eyes. What future do we want to build for Pakistan? A future of harmony and reconcili ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian government reviews Islamic religious education programs to combat extremism Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Awqaf - in charge of endowments to mosques and religious communities - announced that it has completed a draft revision of the general programs of religious education that will pro ...
• 16 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A "Day of Prayer for our martyrs" after the attacks on churches Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Time of mourning and prayer for the Church in Pakistan: today, Monday, March 16, the Catholic faithful celebrate a "special day of prayer for the innocent lives of the martyrs". This was announce ...
• 16 March 2015
  VATICAN – Pope Francis: "Our brothers' and sisters' blood is shed only because they are Christians" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Angelus prayer with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, Sunday, March 15, the Holy Father Francis expressed his deep sorrow for the tragic events in Pakistan, invoking th ...
• 16 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni: Africa needs encouragement and solidarity, not migration, or the purchase of weapons and looting Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In Christ, this beloved continent of Comboni, where he wanted to end his life, needs courageous and prophetic political leaders, who can be inspired by the Gospel; Bishops and priests according to ...
• 16 March 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The "Justice and Peace" Commission on the massacre of Christians: "Police negligent " Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The protection provided by the authorities was "minimal", despite warnings already launched in recent days, given the threats received by the churches; and "agents present at the time of the atta ...
• 16 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious leaders: "Development and the fight against corruption to stop Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hatred and mistrust sown by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria are likely to last for years even after the disappearance of the Islamist group. This is what emerged from the seminar titled "Religious ...
• 16 March 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: a law against preachers who incite violence is needed Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq, bloodied by sectarian strife and in the hands of jihadists, a law to prosecute religious preachers who incite violence and therefore threaten the peaceful coexistence of citizens belong ...
• 16 March 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Nepalese teenagers say no to forced marriage Bajura (Agenzia Fides) - The district of Bajura is located 900 km west of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Here there are some of the most remote villages with the highest number of development problems in the Country. A ...