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  27 February 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Year of the Mission" in Chittagong, for the 500th anniversary since the arrival of the Gospel Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Chittagong, Archdiocese in Southeast Bangladesh, will live a special "Year of the Mission" in 2018, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel ...
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  27 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram terrorism: "Allah does not send anyone to kill on his behalf" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after the kidnapping of a group of girls from Chibok, members of the Nigerian terror group "Boko Haram" have kidnapped hundreds of students from a school of Dapchi. This is the umpteent ...
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  27 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Third church-led demonstrations: "Repression was less violent even if there were at least 3 victims" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Repression was less violent even if unfortunately at least three people were killed", report to Agenzia Fides Church sources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where on Sunday 25 February fo ...
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  27 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Church of the Holy Sepulchre shuttered for the third day in a row. Even the Arab League against taxes on ecclesiastical assets Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Even today, Tuesday, February 27, for the third day in a row, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City remains shuttered in a tax standoff with the city's municipality and in p ...
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  27 February 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Cardinal da Rocha: "Too much aggression in social media". Also Carnival highlighted the violence Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - There is too much violence in social media and aggression "is shared by many Catholics present in social networks": this is the alarm launched by Cardinal Sergio da Rocha, Archbishop of Brasili ...
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  26 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian is dying from police violence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is outrage, concern and protest in the Christian community in Pakistan after the treatment given by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) agents on 24-year-old Christian Sajid Masih, during th ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's family at the Vatican: "The Pope will pray for us and with us" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe in Jesus Christ and we turn to Him by putting Asia's life in his hands. We are sure that the Lord will listen to us, also thanks to the Pope's prayer and to the prayers of all t ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Church and other religious communities join the Pope in prayer for peace in Africa New Delhi (Agenzi Fides) - The Catholic Church in India and also the faithful of other religions, Hindus and Muslims, have responded to Pope Francis’ appeal and have joined the pontiff and universal Church in celebrati ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still violence while the world is praying for the DRC and South Sudan Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – While today, 23 February, the world Day of prayer and fasting for peace in the world is being celebrated, and in particular for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, announced ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Kenyan missionary:"I will continue to work in South Sudan despite the alarm of my government" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Rumbek, the few Kenyans I have met feel unsafe but as they work in these areas, they just entrust their lives to God", says to Fides Father John John Waweru, a Kenyan priest incardinate ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/LAOS - The Church remembers Lionello Berti, first Bishop and missionary Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - The small Laotian Church participates spiritually, with great affection and gratitude, at the memorial of Mgr. Lionello Berti, missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) who died i ...
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  22 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Discrimination against Dalit women: government intervention is urgent New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Dalit women in India are poorer, more marginalized and discriminated than men, and the average age of their mortality is 14.6 years lower than the highest caste women. The data of the new UN ...
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  22 February 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - The struggle for political elections affects the return of refugees to Mosul and the Nineveh province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The maneuvers and pressures of the political forces in view of the upcoming Iraqi political elections, scheduled for May 12, are heavily influencing the return of displaced people who had left Mos ...
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  22 February 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church in Lima fights drug trafficking among young people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Drug trafficking is not an extra threat to society, it is the main threat. In Peru, this plague moves figures above 3 billion dollars a year and "the problem grows every day", says to Agenzia Fides ...
• 22 February 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Tanjung Selor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed the Rev. Fr. Paulinus Yan Olla, M.S.F., currently Rector of the Theological Studentate M.S.F. in Malang as Bishop of the diocese of Tanjung Selor (Indonesi ...