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• 15 February 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The reduction of lands belonging to Christians continues Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - After the proclamation of independence of Lebanon, 8130 square km of land belonged to the Lebanese Christians. Today, however, Lebanese Christians have about 4 thousand km of land. These figures ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Who killed Sabir Masih?": Mysterious death of a Christian who was in police custody Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Who killed the Christian Sabir Masih?": Is the cry that rises from the Church and civil society in Pakistan that ask for an independent investigation and thorough autopsy after the mysterious ...
• 14 February 2014
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The government must listen to the people who protest" the voice of the Church after 3 deaths during demonstrations Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot have a government that does not listen to its people", said the President of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela, Archbishop of Cumana, His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Campaign against the gifts between people in love on Valentine's Day. The Islamists: "it is a Christian feast" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Some shopkeepers in Mosul who exposed gifts and gadgets to be sold on St. Valentine’s day were forced to obey the threats of armed groups who invited them to put their merchandise away, constitu ...
• 14 February 2014
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Conclusion of the Jubilee for the 500th anniversary of Santa Maria La Antigua, the first Church of the continent Panama (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival of the Special Envoy of the Holy Father, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the closing cel ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "To be truly a Church of the poor": the final message of the Assembly of Bishops Palai (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is called to become an example of simplicity, transparency, justice, mercy, in a society polluted by corruption and violence: This is what the final communiqué of the 31st Assembly of ...
• 14 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "God exists and God knows" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The clashes between these two factions (the former Seleka rebels and anti Balaka militia) have poisoned the Country and continue to claim innocent victims", writes Fr. Frederick Trinchero, Disca ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: we need a "Chaldean League" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Because of the difficult moment the Iraqi nation continues to live, we need to create a "Chaldean League": an association to coordinate and facilitate the contribution of the Chaldeans to civi ...
• 14 February 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Rumors of a coup denied: "calm situation in Tripoli", say Fides sources Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - Rumors of a possible military coup in Libya, after an Arab satellite television had reported that militias loyal to General Khalifa Haftar had taken control of Tripoli have been denied. Haftar h ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Anglican Bishop of Karachi: "Christians in danger, police and judiciary in lethargy" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Religious minorities in Pakistan, and especially Christians, have become the constant target of masses of extremists": says Ijaz Inayat Masih, Anglican Bishop of Karachi in a note sent to Fides ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Masses for the release of all the hostages Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road that from Aleppo leads to Dam ...
• 13 February 2014
  VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Filoni : "It is wise and healthy to go to Christ’s school, be once again young pupils and listen to the Master" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "How wise and healthy it would be to go to Christ’s school, be once again young pupils and listen to the Master. He who, with his behaviour, makes us feel good, because he speaks straight ...
• 13 February 2014
  VATICAN - Another priest among the pastoral workers killed in 2013 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has to be added to the list of pastoral workers killed in 2013 (published by Fides on 03/01/2014): We are talking about Fr. András Szarvas, who was killed on September 11, 2 ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Doing good is no longer a "subversive activity": Caritas in Myanmar for the poor and the excluded Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas in Myanmar, "Karuna" in the local language (which means "compassion") "has been at the service of the poor and the excluded since the dark days of dictatorship and oppression, when doing ...
• 13 February 2014
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - American Indians: neglected and marginalized, but have great capacities Rosebud (Agenzia Fides) - "Usually, the populations of American Indians are neglected. Here we have a population that in the majority is uneducated and suffers from addictions to alcohol, drugs and depression. But it has ...