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• 12 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A hall of Christian worship set on fire: faithful in terror Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Dismay and terror in the Christian community of Rawalpindi. The faithful are still in shock over the incident which occurred on the night of 29 December, when a hall of Protestant Christian w ...
• 12 January 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Recalling the earthquake in Haiti with the testimony of Zilda Arns Curitiba (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10 about 30,000 Brazilians participated in a ceremony and a Mass in the stadium of the city of Curitiba, Paraná state (southern Brazil) to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the e ...
• 12 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Future hope for a major demonstration to take place just like the one in Paris to say no to Boko Haram" proposes Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The new strategy of Boko Haram terrorists to use innocent children as human bombs is abhorrent and unimaginable" says His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the E ...
• 12 January 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - International Delegation of Bishops visit Gaza; for Archbishop Fontana "a devastated situation" Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – The group of 16 Bishops who make up the Holy Land Coordination (Hlc), a body that brings together Bishops and representatives of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe and North America (see Fides 0 ...
• 12 January 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: "Stalemate, the peace process must be relaunched" says the Bishop of Ziguinchor Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The true peace that we await is an act of courage that commits both sides to lay down their arms to speak in truth and draw the outlines of a final and lasting peace, based on a written and signe ...
• 12 January 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: "The Pope's visit will be an impetus to reconciliation" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The presence of Pope Francis, from 13 to 15 January, among us is a gift and a blessing. The climate we live in today is very positive and the Pope's visit will be an impetus to national reconci ...
• 12 January 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Agreement between the President and opposition: elections in 2015 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Just 5 years after the earthquake, the President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, and about twenty political leaders yesterday, January 11, signed the agreement to carry out elections in 2015. ...
• 9 January 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priests of Guerrero "continue to preach the Gospel as always" despite threats and blackmail, Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church welcomes the new year with great concern due to the wave of violence and insecurity in the state of Guerrero: this is what the Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chil ...
• 9 January 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND - Cardinal designate Kovithavanij: valuable religions to build a peaceful society Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Religions, and therefore religious leaders, have an important role to carry out in building peaceful and harmonious societies: is what the Archbishop of Bangkok, His Exc. Mgr. Kriengsak Kovitvan ...
• 9 January 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops: "a new era of peace and reconciliation with newly-elected president Sirisena" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "There are high hopes and good wishes for Sri Lanka to begin a new era of prosperity and peace": with these words, gathered by Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Vianney Fernando, Bishop of Kandy welc ...
• 9 January 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ – They refuse to convert to Islam: 10 elderly Christians expelled from Mosul Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the self-jihadist Islamic Caliphate have expelled 10 elderly Chaldean Christians and Syrian Catholics from Mosul and temporarily housed in the second largest city in Iraq, after ...
• 9 January 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Tuberculosis and Chagas disease out of control in the Chaco Resistencia (Agenzia Fides) - In the Argentine province of Chaco, tuberculosis and Chagas disease are out of control. According to data from the Institute of Social, Economic Research and Citizen Policy (ISEPCi), about 5 ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal-designate Souraphiel: "I will work for the Church so that it obtains the observer status in the African Union" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – To work so that the Catholic Church obtains the observer status in the African Union. This is one of first commitments expressed by Cardinal-designate His Exc. Mgr. Berhaneyesus Demerew So ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New violence committed by Boko Haram: perhaps 2,000 dead, several churches burned Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Even several churches have been burned in the last series of attacks committed by Boko Haram in the city of Baga and in the surrounding villages, in the Nigerian Borno state, which according to so ...
• 9 January 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN – Day of Migrants - Bishops appeal to the government: listen to immigrants before expelling them Albacete (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Bishops have asked the government to listen to the voice of immigrants before expelling them, in order to ascertain whether or not they are people in need of asylum or victims of vi ...