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• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syria, Gaza, Egypt: Holy Land Custodians launch initiatives to face emergency Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Ongoing violence and social and political crisis rocking the Middle East has prompted the religious communities in the region rethink forms of presence in order to meet the urgent needs of ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Dialogue between two parties on equal terms, not between weak and powerful Jerico (Agenzia Fides) – The block has been lifted to open the road leading to the Anglo Gold Ashanti mining area, in the town of Jerico of Antioquia (Colombia), where about 500 peasants from Quebradona, Vallecito, La ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/HAITI - “A presence in the eyes of the world for our small country”: newly created Cardinal Langlois speaks with Fides Roma (Agenzia Fides) – He is the youngest Cardinal created in the Consistory held in recent days and the first Cardinal in the history of Haiti: his Eminence Chibly Langlois, Archbishop Les Cayes, aged 55, kindly gave ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – New rules for election of Orthodox Coptic Pope examined by civil authorities Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Synod of Orthodox Coptic Bishops has approved new regulations for the election of a Patriarch. The rules are now being examined by the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Fides was to ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA – Classrooms under water, 10 toilets and no water for more than 1000 pupils Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – Damp classrooms, muddy walls falling to pieces await school children in Cochabamba. “There is more rain water inside the school than outside” say the parents of children at the school ...
• 25 February 2014
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES – The Church should never forget her duty to accompany immigrants towards integration Washington (Agenzia Fides) – “Immigrants will only be able to integrate in American society if they feel ‘strong’, and the Catholic Church should never forget her role to accompany our immigrant communities " sa ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – United Nations will increase Peacekeeping troops in Katanga, a drama signalled by the country's Catholic Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The people of Katanga welcome the announcement by the command of MONUSCO (UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo) of a decision to increase its Peacekeeping troops in the southern Co ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – Catholic Bishops: for 2014 “a Church with a warm heart” (Agenzia Fides) – A “Church with a warm heart”. This is the motto chosen by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of South Korea for the year 2014: Fides was informed by Fr. Thaddaeus Lee Ki-rak, the Conference’s ex ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: A Lenten Season of fasting and prayer that Christians in Iraq will not emigrate Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - “I ask you to fast and to offer prayers that Iraqi Christians will remain here in our country and not emigrate”. This pressing call was contained in a brief but heartfelt message, issued by ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Colombians deported from Venezuela: Catholic Bishops in border area dioceses work to provide assistance and promote peace Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) – Bishops in dioceses along the border between Colombia and Venezuela have welcomed the initiative by Venezuela’s head of state, Nicolas Maduro, to convoke a national peace conference on Wedne ...
• 24 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “churches and mosques must be rid of armed infiltrators”: say the Catholic Archbishop and the Imam of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to disarm “infiltrators” in churches and mosques in order to counteract gangs of militia and looters presently terrorising the country. This appeal has been launched by Arch ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “We must be all involved to stop the violence” says the Bishop of Zacatecas Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) –Bishop Sigifredo Noriega Barceló of the Mexican diocese of Zacatecas, affirmed that to tackle the drug-culture present in the country it is necessary to combine efforts on the part of the c ...
• 24 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Christian is the first woman elected to lead a political party in Egypt Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox Christian, Hala Shukrallah, elected head of the Constitution Party, is the first woman leader of a political party in Egypt. Hala Shukrallah succeeds Nobel Mohamed El Baradei, w ...
• 24 February 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Campaign to vaccinate children against measles and rubella Asunción (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning in April, the Programma Ampliado di Immunizzazione (PAI) is organizing in Paraguay, for one month, a campaign to vaccinate children aged 1 to 5 years, against measles and rubella. ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - No to social exclusion, no to the caste system: Franciscans in India play a prophetic role Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) – Franciscans, consecrated persons as well as lay members, have reaffirmed their prophetic role in India, their desire to be “a poor fraternity among the poor and for the poor”, committed to ...