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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - New initiative of minority MP’s against the islamization law of minors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, members of Christians present in the Parliamentary Assembly of Iraq have called for greater representation of minorities in the government of technocrats led by Prime Minister Ha ...
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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: re-establish the Ministry of Minorities, recalling Shahbaz Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Re-establish the Ministry of Minorities in Pakistan, an organization that at a federal level takes care of the representation of religious minorities: is the proposal that Paul Bhatti launch ...
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  25 February 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "Commitment to culture": meeting of the border dioceses of the two countries Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their second meeting, held in a fraternal and friendly atmosphere on 15 and 16 February 2016 in Villa Cana, Cap Haitien (Haiti), the border dioceses between Haiti and the Do ...
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  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops at a conference on reconciliation and challenges to the Church in West Africa Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Over 150 Bishops gathered in Accra, capital of Ghana, for the Joint Plenary Assembly of the two international meetings of the Episcopal Conferences of West Africa: the Anglophone RECOWA (Regional ...
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  25 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abandoned children accused of being witches Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Redeem children abandoned in the streets by their families and accused of being sorcerers: is the goal of the NGO African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation. We are talking about ...
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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Archbishop: celebrate Easter and Christmas together is the desire of all Christians Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I think there is not a Catholic or an Orthodox who does not have the desire to see a rapprochement between the Churches, and to find a common date to celebrate Easter and Christmas. We pray t ...
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  24 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A month after the oil spill in Inayo, the Church calls for urgent action Inayo (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 January there was a first oil spill, followed shortly after by another, in Inayo, in the Amazon region of northern Peru, from the pipeline that crosses the province of Bagua. A month after t ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Sarathi Jhalak: Community radio which every morning allows citizens to speak Anugondanahalli (Agenzia Fides) - Every morning, a group of Indian farmers of Anugondanahalli village are huddled around Sarathi Jhalak, a community radio station that broadcasts a program on climate change. The group of ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: "In the Jubilee Year, freedom for a thousand prisoners" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Free a thousand prisoners, detained for minor offenses in Indian jails, granting them a special "pardon" in the Jubilee Year: is what the Indian Franciscans submit to the government, hoping th ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Tension for minorities and missionaries heavily guarded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in Banglasdesh, and the necessary monitoring of the missionary life "is causing some consequences on the exercise of the ministry", says a note from the Pontifical Institute f ...
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  24 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Letter of the 3 Bishops of Chocó to the President to demand adequate health care Quibdo (Agenzia Fides) - The three Colombian dioceses of Quibdo, Istmina-Tado and Apartado and 68 social organizations of Chocó department, sent a letter to the President of the Republic, Juan Manuel Santos, to complain ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Catholic women of Southern Africa for the promotion of migrants' rights Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - The inter regional meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa through its Social Department recently organised a Human Rights Centred Migration Management capacity building workshop to promote the obs ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A new report highlights the plight of Nigerian Christians Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians killed; Since 2000 at least 1.3 million Christians are now internally displaced or forced to move elsewhere; 13,000 churches have been destroyed or forced to clo ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Grand Imam of al-Azhar: What will the heads of Churches in the US that accept gay marriage say to Jesus? Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The West is spreading homosexuality, and "unfortunately some Heads of Churches in the United States accept same-sex marriages. I wonder what is left of the Bible in those Churches. And what will ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Mayor of Selciuk relaunches: we will build the biggest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Mayor Zeynel Bakici, at the head of the town of Selcuk – where there is the archaeological site of the ancient city of Ephesus - has relauched plans to build the tallest statue in the ...