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• 14 February 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mgr. Buenanueva:"We need good quality citizens" San Francisco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco (Córdoba, Argentina), His Exc. Mgr. Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva, in a statement sent to Fides said that "Argentine democracy is sick, it needs the ...
• 13 February 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Civil society: "Confidence in the hundred days of the new government's reforms" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Request for "solid protection of human rights" in Sri Lanka and to "end the culture of impunity"; confidence in the "program of one hundred days of reforms" that place the rule of law and democr ...
• 13 February 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Medical mission prepared the first "Day of the Sick" in the history of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "For the first time in the history of the diocese of Maumere, Flores island, Indonesia, the World Day of the Sick was celebrated, on February 11, in the Cathedral, with a solemn Eucharistic Litu ...
• 13 February 2015
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of Bishop of Dassa-Zoumé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 February 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. François Gnonhossou, S.M.A., currently general counsel of the Society of African Missions, as Bishop of the Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé ( ...
• 13 February 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "The way we treat immigrants today will leave a mark in our history" Ceuta (Agenzia Fides) - "Together with the Church of Tangier we add our voice to that of those who, in the name of justice, demand respect for the rights of those who, for lack of documents, are considered illegal. Migra ...
• 13 February 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Magazine of the Islamic State announces the execution of the Copts kidnapped in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The 21 Copts kidnapped in Libya in early January are in the hands of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), who in an article published online foreshadow their execution by presenting it as a re ...
• 13 February 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy: the judiciary in Punjab lists 50 unfounded cases and organizes rapid trials Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The judiciary in Punjab, in collaboration with the police and with the government of the province, has compiled a list of 50 cases of people currently on trial for blasphemy, defined as "victims ...
• 13 February 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Mata: "The government must defend human rights" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - "We have reminded the government its great responsibility to defend human rights (...) and the answer is persecution, violation of laws, murder, destruction": are the strong words used yesterday ...
• 13 February 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The Armenian parliament is studying a statement condemning the Assyrian and Greek Genocides Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - The recent announcement of a statement that the Armenian Parliament may soon adopt, to express condemnation of the massacres suffered a century ago by the Greeks and Assyrians in Ottoman territor ...
• 13 February 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Free the Children" campaign for the release of immigrant children held in prison Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Commission for Human Rights has just published its conclusions on the detention of immigrant children. In this regard, Catholic Mission, official body of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
• 12 February 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Blasphemy against the Christian faith Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cases of defamation and insult against the Christian faith are increasing in India. The "All India Bakchod" comedy group offered "unconditional apology" to the Catholic Church for the blasphemous ...
• 12 February 2015
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Malabo and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 February 2015 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) by His Exc. Mgr. Ildefonso Obama Obono, in accorda ...
• 12 February 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Lisala and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On 11 February 2015 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Lisala (Democratic Republic of Congo) by His Exc. Mgr. Louis Nkinga Bondala, C. ...
• 12 February 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk promotes a blood drive for the victims of terrorism Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - An extraordinary blood drive campaign was held with the intention of showing solidarity towards the victims of jihadist terrorism and also with the armed forces and Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers who ...
• 12 February 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mgr. Lozano denounces: deaths due to child malnutrition in the country Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the Commission for Social Pastoral of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Lozano, denounced that "there are situations of child malnutrition in various pa ...