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  14 February 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian and Muslim leaders discuss the bill against early marriages Kaslik (Agenzia Fides) - The different religious communities are called to confront themselves and to promote a reflection to review their own customs and community rules if they want to concretely contribute to overcomi ...
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  14 February 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Nobody knows the ways of the Lord: the story of an African who returns to the origins Kolowarè (Agenzia Fides) - Djery is a young man originally from the village of Alibi, Togo, but who lived in the Ivory Coast and in Europe. "I was a Muslim, but I returned to the religion of my ancestors. I rediscovered ...
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  14 February 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - The elderly in need, protagonists of the "Lent of Fraternity" launched by Caritas Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Your contribution and my experience are important" is the title of the campaign for the Lent of Fraternity 2018, promoted by Caritas Chile and aimed at assisting the most vulnerable elderly, t ...
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  14 February 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesian Catholics between Lent and Lunar New Year Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Pontianak (in Indonesian Borneo) has given dispensation from abstinence from meat and fasting on 16 Feb 2018 in view of the Lunar New Year to Chinese Catholics. The Archdioces ...
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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, ...