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• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Jordanian Minister: satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The activities of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) "have nothing to do with Islam, and the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity, while the Zionist polici ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Pope's letter to the Archbishop of Palo: "I will never forget Tacloban" Palo (Agenzia Fides) - " I thank you too, wholeheartedly, for the witness of faith and endurance which your people showed me in the midst of their trials. I will never forget this and I will keep them in my prayers" says ...
• 3 February 2015
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Auxiliary Bishop: we do not negotiate any truce, we want an open dialogue with all San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Solve violence with violence does not work", said Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Rosa Chavez, referring to the method that the authorities want ...
• 31 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Four churches attacked in Mérida Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Four Catholic churches were hit by petrol bombs and even the Apostolic Nuncio, Aldo Giordano, who is visiting the city of Mérida is the target of these attacks. The incident occurred yesterday ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition and armed conflicts threaten the lives of thousands of children Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - More than 38 000 Somali children are at serious risk of starvation in the Country which continues to be battered by war. Statistics, based on the latest UN figures, reveals that after three ye ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Entire populations deprived of basic health services: commitment to the re-opening of the hospital in Lunsar Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - With its 10,510 cases of Ebola (3,199 deaths), Sierra Leone remains the country hardest hit by the virus. However, the number of new cases per week continues to decrease fortunately. But beside ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ensuring security and justice for minorities": New Report by Human Rights Watch Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan’s government should ensure the security of the country’s religious minorities from judicial injustice and attacks by militants: is what is written in the new international Report ...
• 31 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Christians in the Islamist electoral list. The spokesman of the Salafi: we are obliged by law Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of Coptic Christians in the lists of the Salafist al-Nour Party is a "necessary act" required by the electoral law, and falls within the pre-constitutional requirements that political ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - First fruits of the commitment of the Jesuits in the field of education Dili (Agenzia Fides) – There are hundreds of young Timorese who are eager to study and have a higher education: the Education Project of the Jesuits in East Timor, including two education institutions are valuable reso ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Blessed John Paul II" Seminary in the diocese of Auchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 3, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed rev. Benjamin Ewelu, of the diocesan clergy of Auchi as Rector of the "B ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Rector of the "Blessed Tansi Iwene" Seminary in the Archdiocese of Onitsha Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 17, 2014 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Emanuele Uchenna Dim, of the diocesan clergy of Auchi as Rector o ...
• 30 January 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Parra robbed during a parish meeting: "Money is spent on many things, but not on safety" Ciudad Guayana (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot continue like this, I do not see concrete action against violence", said His Exc. Mgr. Mariano José Parra Sandoval, Bishop of Ciudad Guyana (Venezuela) after being robbed, alo ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters storm Christian school Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks protesting against the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" for publishing blasphemous cartoons of the prophet Mohammed stormed a Chri ...
• 30 January 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The story of a missionary: Malawi on its knees due to the damage caused by cyclones Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Cyclones of the Mozambique Channel have brought devastation in Malawi", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfortan missionary who for decades has lived and worked in Malawi. "In ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops to the government: "To support a secular India and respectful of the rights" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is important to support the secularism of the Indian nation and together build a nation in which the rights and freedoms of every person are respected: is what the Bishops write to the In ...