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• 7 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian candidates in random order in the next national elections Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There will be nine main political lists inspired by Christian activists - Chaldeans, Syrians and Assyrians - who will take part in the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections, scheduled for Apr ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Despite the truce, clashes continue: aid, medicines and therapeutic food are needed Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - In the aftermath of the truce signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between representatives of the Government of Southern Sudan and the rebels led by Riek Machar, fighting continues and there remains m ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country"; is the slogan that can be read in the parish of Fr. Dieudonné, a young priest of the Diocese of Alindao, in the Cen ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – Catholic Church launches Uganda Martyrs’ campaign Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, Archbishop of Kampala, has launched the campaign dubbed "Kikungo" started at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Namayumba. The campaign will climax on Octobe ...
• 6 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Only education can defeat superstition and ensure full respect for life in all its forms New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The National Day for Life has just been celebrated, to remind everyone of the tremendous value of life which is often, unfortunately, trampled and degraded. Too many times human beings are dep ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al-Sisi to run for President. Bishop Fahim Hanna: he has the support of the people, but the Church does not take sides Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the Egyptian armed forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has publicly confirmed his candidacy for the presidential elections to be held in Egypt next April. " I have to succumb to the people's d ...
• 6 February 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the wake of Evangelii Gaudium, the Church is committed to the poor and unemployed Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea, in response to the request of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Evangeliii gaudium, confirms the preferential option for the poor and his commitment to the defense, prote ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Valentine's Day: occasion to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Malawi choose Valentine's Day to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA (Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa), which will be held in Lilong ...
• 6 February 2014
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Cardinal Filoni: "The announcement ad gentes is part of the responsibility that all the particular Churches have toward Christ" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!", Cardinal Fernando Filoni concluded his third conference, held yesterday, February 5, at the course of study which brin ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The flow of Central Africans seeking refuge in the DRC does not stop Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The arrival of Central Africans fleeing their country in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not stop. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) only last week another 500 pe ...
• 6 February 2014
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Solidarity with the nuns assaulted and request to solve the problem of land San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, expressed his solidarity with the religious sister Patricia Moysén de Las Casas Marquez a ...
• 5 February 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The victims of the Armenian Genocide will be canonized Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a century since the Armenian genocide – carried out in the territories of Turkey in 1915 - the Armenian Apostolic Church firmly and definitively confirms its intention to proceed with ...
• 5 February 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A new bishop of ethnic chin: a sign of unity for the Church and the nation Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The new bishop Lucius Hrekung who, in the Diocese of Hakha, will have the pastoral care of the population of the Chin ethnic minority, to which he himself belongs, is "a sign of unity for the Chu ...
• 5 February 2014
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Post- conflict" keyword in the dialogue President-Bishops Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos on February 4, paid a visit to the Bishops gathered for the XCVI Colombian Plenary Assembly of the Episcopate. The President thanked the Catholic Chu ...
• 5 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – 80 people killed in the last 24 hours due to violence in four Nigerian states Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 80 people have been killed in a series of attacks committed in the last 24 hours in 4 States of Nigeria, Plateau, Kaduna, Yobe and Katsina. In Plateau State 30 people, mostly women, chil ...