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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Overcoming the sin of tribalism: a challenge for the Church of Africa Ahiara (Agenzia Fides) - The well-known ethnic and tribal crisis that struck the Nigerian diocese of Ahiara "is just the tip of the iceberg", reports Ivorian theologian Donald Zagore, missionary of the Society of African ...
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  20 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy on social media: a Christian arrested Lahore (Agenza FIdes) – 17-year-old Christian Patras Masih was accused of blasphemy on social media and arrested yesterday in Lahore. As Fides learns, the complaint, based on Article 295-c of the Pakistani Penal Code ( ...
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  20 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Israeli Parliament rejects bill on recognition of "Armenian Genocide" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Parliament rejected a bill, which would have recognized the "Armenian Genocide". Sponsored by Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, the bill was rejected in a preliminary vote whic ...
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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "A campaign of defamation of the Church underway while the Country prepares to vote" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We denounce the campaign of discrediting and defamation of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy", says the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO) in the statement published at the ...
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  20 February 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Student movements, of all religions, committed to peace and coexistence Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - Young Indonesians will not let themselves be intimidated or provoked by those who want to create new inter-religious clashes in the country: is what 16 leaders of student and youth organizations ...
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  20 February 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops' Challenge: participation of the excluded and vulnerable young people in WYD 2019 Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "Young Panamanians, young people make their way looking at the future with hope; you are missionaries of Jesus. I invite you to WYD 2019 in Panama, a feast where we will meet Jesus, together with ...
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  20 February 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Encounter with the poor Christ": young people on mission in rural areas Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - An army of 1,300 missionaries aged between 18 to 33 will crowd 13 rural areas and a juvenile prison in Paraguay from Easter Tuesday to Easter, with the aim of announcing the Good News to about ...
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  19 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Repentance and reconciliation are urgent", says Archbishop Okpaleke announcing his resignation as Bishop of Ahiara Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the announcement of the appointment, there have been violent reactions and resistance from a group of the Ahiara diocesan clergy, the laity and others", stresses His Exc. Mgr. Peter Ebere O ...
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  19 February 2018
  VATICAN - Press release of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the Diocese of Ahiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has today released the following statement. "The Holy Father, after having accepted the resignation of His Excellency, the Most Rev. Peter ...
• 19 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ahiara and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ahiara (Nigeria), presented by his Exc. Msgr. Peter Ebere Okpaleke, and at the same time appoin ...
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  19 February 2018
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Massacre in front of a church in Dagestan. Patriarch Kirill: they want to break the harmony among Christians and Muslims Kizljar (Agenzia Fides) - A gunman killed five women yesterday, Sunday February 18 as they left St. George's Cathedral in Kizljar, in the Republic of Dagestan. According to the Patriarch of Moscow the attack represents a ...
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  19 February 2018
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Many do not feel represented by any party, but the Church calls for responsible voting San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We are discussing the right not to vote, in a democratic country, because this is also an expression of discontent. It seems that even the annulment of the vote is a right, it is not that ...
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  19 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The trishul or the cross? Appeal not to abandon Christian principles Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Choose between the trishul and the cross: is the appeal addressed to voters by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) - the largest Christian organization in the state of Nagaland (eastern In ...
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  19 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Church invites us to pray for peace:"The country needs unity and compassion" Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community, during Lent, and in particular on Friday 23 February, will pray for peace in the conflict-stricken nations of South Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Con ...
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  17 February 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Palestinian Minister at the Vatican: "We would like the Holy See lead a Conference on Jerusalem" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The unilateral decision of the US Administration to recognize Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of Israel "is undermining the possibility of having positive results concerning peace negotiations", ...