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  13 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Education and a renewed mentality, key factors for the development of Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Education is the only way to emancipate the Christian community in Pakistan. A change of mentality is urgent; too many young people do nothing but replace their parents who work as street or sew ...
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  13 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - New health system: big announcement, but not very feasible New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The recent announcement of the federal government on the new health system for 2018 - the largest health insurance project ever proposed in the world - could be "just a big announcement, but n ...
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  13 February 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - A decree provides for the complete restitution of 30 ecclesiastical assets to the Syriac Orthodox Church Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - A decree has ordered the full restitution of ecclesiastical assets scattered in the Mardin region to the Syriac Orthodox Church and that in 2017 had been placed under the control of Turkish publi ...
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  13 February 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops for Lent: the courage of conversion following the example of martyrs Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Concern but also hope, in the Lenten message of the Guatemalan Episcopal Conference (CEG) released at the end of the annual assembly. "Open crime", which "spreads like an epidemic in an i ...
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  13 February 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Malnutrition affects half of the children under the age of 5 Quetzaltenango (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child malnutrition continues to be one of the main emergencies afflicting Guatemala. The latest data, just published, show that in 2017, 80% of the deaths among the youn ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Attack on a church: is extremism threatening Christians? Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Fear and consternation in the Indonesian Catholic community after the attack suffered yesterday, 11 February, during Sunday Mass in the church of San Lidwina, in the district of Selman, near ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians remember Asma Jahangir, voice for human rights and religious freedom Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan is mourning: Asma Jilani Jahangir, a well-known Muslim lawyer and Pakistani activist, committed to the protection of human rights, died yesterday, 11 February in Lahore following a cardi ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops on the future of India: "No to religious nationalism, it is urgent to defend life" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faith came to India thanks to great saints and apostles such as St. Thomas and St. Francis Xavier, and "India is what it is today, thanks to Christianity". Today the nation is cal ...
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  12 February 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New LaSallian community in the heart of the Amazon: "a return to the roots, with the poorest among the poor" Tabatinga (Agenzia Fides) - The Brothers of the Christian Schools have opened a community in the heart of the Amazon, where they will be at the service, with their educational charisma, of mainly fishermen and indigenous ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Desecrators of a statue of Mary "condemned" to memorize verses from the Quran’s Al-Omran surah on the Mother of Jesus Akkar (Agenzia Fides) - A Lebanese judge ordered two Muslim young men who insulted Christianity to memorize verses from the Quran’s Al-Omran surah which glorifies Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The sentence, ordered by ...
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  12 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Free medical assistance and home visits for patients in Okara and Sahiwal Okara (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 11 February the 26th World Day of the Sick was celebrated all over the world. In Pakistan the event was particularly felt in the two districts of Okara and Sahiwal, diocese of Islamabad, ...
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  12 February 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops: "It is urgent that ecclesial groups assume the commitment of being Church that goes forth" Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent that those who exercise authority listen to citizens and do not make decisions based on personal and political interests". This is how the Bishops of Panama expressed themselves a ...
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  9 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Bishops are on the Dalits side Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Bishops, gathered in Bangalore for the assembly of the Indian Bishops' Conference (which brings together the Pastors of the Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara rites) have reaffi ...
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  9 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Mgr. Bertin: ISIS has arrived in Somalia; "The interests of various international partners increase the Somali instability" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - ISIS has arrived in Somalia. Reports of Western secret services speak of the presence of Islamic State cells. They are made up of former al Shabaab militants (Somali jihadist organization link ...
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  9 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Arshad: "My dream for Pakistan: peace and harmony" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "My dream for the Church and for all of Pakistan is that people can live in peace, harmony and hope. Peace and hope are the words of my episcopal motto: these are two essential and necessary v ...