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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Organisation asks President al Sisi to grant an amnesty to Copt youths wrongly condemned for offending Islam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Karim Kamal, founder of the Union General of Copts for the Motherland, has asked the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al Sisi to intervene regarding the case of a group of Copt youths recently a ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti, diocese collects testimony for 'Martyrdom' Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – At this time of year when Pakistan's Catholics mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic, MP for Minority Groups assassinated in Islamabad on 2 March 2011, the ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Entire community reflects on education and early marriages on the opening day of the new school Nguluwe (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 February, Opening day for newly renovated Nguluwe School , (see Fides 1/2/2016), was a great success. A report sent to Fides by Italian NGO CCS Italia (Centro Cooperazione Sviluppo Onlu ...
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  1 March 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - “Young people, continue to have hope about living your life in Africa” Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Insecurity , terrorism, persecution of Christians, the migratory crisis, corruption and bad-government, manipulation of national constitutions by political leaders to remain in power; lack of r ...
• 29 February 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New PMS National Director , Rev. Pedige Basil Rohan Fernando Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 October 2015, appointed as new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sr ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts: “Our mission is to spread love in a context of violence and terrorism” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “As Pakistani Christians we face numerous challenges every day: many will have heard of the so-called blasphemy law and the emblematic case of Asia Bibi, an innocent Christian mother sentenc ...
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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Life is impossible in the present situation of total indifference on the part of the authorities”Bishop Escobar exclaims Upper Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Gabriel Escobar, in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco, has urged the people living in Upper Paraguay to be more insistent in calling the authorities to fulfil their ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Children taught to be responsible at school Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – People in Asian countries are increasingly aware of the necessity of helping minors be aware of daily responsibilities . At school, besides learning to read and write, and study history, pro ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Number of Christians in the Gaza Strip continues to dwindle Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – The small Christian presence in Gaza Strip continues to dwindle: in recent months at least thirty young people decided to leave the land in which they were born to emigrate and funeral services ...
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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops call for: “Rural developemtn and ethics to build a new post-conflict Colombia ” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – "We are highly concerned about the situation in rural areas … point nne of the peace agreement opens a window for a policy of comprehensive agricultural development ": said the Catholic Bi ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Government annunces new measure to curb corrupt state works abetting fraud to the damage of Iraqi Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) –State workers abetting property to the damage of Christians will be severely punished with temporary suspension or definitive dismissal. This was announced in a television interview by the ...
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  29 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Civil society calls for international enquiry into massaccres in the area of i Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorists belonging to ADF-Nalu group enjoy complicity in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the part of “uncontrolled elements of Ugandan army and security forces ”. This was affirmed ...
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  29 February 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Ellos me importan”: I care about them : campaign for child protection Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Protection and schooling for children should be a priority all over the world. Nevertheless more than 17,000 boys and girls die every day of preventable causes; 27 million are refugees or displa ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Execution of Qadri, the killer of governor Taseer Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – Mumtaz Qadri, bodyguard and killer of the governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, assassinated 4 January 2011, was hanged this morning in Adiala prison, under massive security measures. After t ...
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  29 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Opposition disappointed with African Union visit Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Organise, as soon as possible, “inclusive dialogue” with all the “major actors” in the crisis, under the aegis contested (at home) of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. This was the im ...