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• 26 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi, the appeal has been postponed due to the "counterparty’s use of tactics" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal for Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman accused of blasphemy, has again been postponed. Not for the absence of judges, but for the use of tactics on behalf of the counter ...
• 25 March 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Over 7.7 million dollars for aid to victims of the typhoon: The Church guarantees transparency Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of corruption is always latent: for this reason the Church of the Philippines ensures transparency in the management of over $ 7.7 million in humanitarian aid received to help the ...
• 25 March 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – Dialogue is "necessary" to stop violence Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Los Teques (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Ramón Ovidio Perez Morales, proposed the Venezuelan seat of the Episcopate as a meeting place between the opposition and ...
• 25 March 2014
  VATICAN - Urbaniana University, a laboratory of interculturalism at the service of the Gospel Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Urbaniana University is a laboratory where cultures are known and valued in the gifts each of whom is a carrier. During the lectures and personal exchange among students and professors, on ...
• 25 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Armenian Catholic Patriarch: the Christians who fled from Kessab have to deal with the emergency with a spirit of communion Beirut (Agenzia Fides ) - "There are more than three hundred Armenian families who have fled from Kessab. They have now found shelter in the Armenian Orthodox parish in the city of Latakia, an hour's drive from Kessab. T ...
• 25 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Pakistan Day": to remember the Constitution in order to build peace and harmony Lahore ( Agenzia Fides) – To remember the Constitution of Pakistan as an opportunity to build peace and religious harmony in the country: was the reason of yesterday’s parade in Lahore March 23, on the occasion of th ...
• 25 March 2014
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the Patronal Feast of Urbaniana University: "Euntes docete leave, go and teach" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we celebrate the feast of the patron of our university, the liturgical feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this liturgical solemnity the Church is aware of the c ...
• 25 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop on the sentences regarding the Muslim Brotherhood: the Church is always against the death penalty Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is complex. There is the hardness of a judgment that is not final, and we have to wait. In any case, the Church is against the death penalty. From a Christian conscience point of v ...
• 25 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Parliament rejects the Constitutional Revision Bujumbura ( Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly of Burundi has rejected the constitutional amendment that would have allowed President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for re-election in 2015 for a third term (see Fides 18/03 ...
• 24 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi, a new hearing on March 26 Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Justice in Pakistan tries again: the first hearing, after two postponements, in the appeal for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman unjustly accused and sentenced to death for blasphemy is set for March ...
• 24 March 2014
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Salvadorans commemorate the assassination of Mgr. Romero, in view of his beatification San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Salvadorans today commemorate 34 years since the murder of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on 24 March 1980. The commemorative celebrations already s ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Arab Spring" was actually a winter Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called Arab Spring in reality "was not a spring or even an autumn, it was a winter". With this judgment without appeal Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II rejected any globally positive i ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The fundamentalists that strike Christians also threaten the local Imam", said the apostolic administrator of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know who committed the attack against the Evangelical church, but most probably it was committed by a group of fundamentalists", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Emanuel Barbara, Bis ...
• 24 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Heads of Churches to all Christians: let us participate in the elections Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Christian Church-Leaders of Iraq, an organization that brings together all the leaders of different Christian denominations in the Middle Eastern Country - has issued a brief pron ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 250 Congolese refugees drown while trying to return home from Uganda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 250 Congolese refugees were killed during the overturning of a boat that was bringing them back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a note sent to Fides Agency by the Co ...