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  26 March 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Unanimous condemnation for the killing of the parish priest of Séko Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly condemn these acts. The men of God have the task of announcing the path of peace and reconciliation", said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, in condemning, together with ...
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  26 March 2018
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - "The cry of the poor and of the Earth calls us": towards the III Continental Congress of Theology San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 24 March, anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Amerindia network and the Master in Latin American Theology of the Central American University Jos ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "National Day of Pakistan": Muslims and Christians together for peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Muslims and Christians together for peace, praying for a future made of harmony, reconciliation, prosperity, common well-being: this is how today, March 23, the "Pakistan Day", a national holiday ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian sources: Turkish air raids destroy Christian archaeological sites Afrin (Agenzia Fides) - The Directorate-General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities denounced, in an official note, the destruction of important Christian archaeological sites caused by air raids carried out by the T ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary: "Feast, joy, peace: Easter in Thailand" Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "Creation is the first visible Word of God. Creation is the first legible sacred text: God said: Let there be light, and there was light. Let there be plants and animals, and there were plan ...
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  23 March 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - On March 24, the Day of missionary martyrs: from their blood, fullness of life Rome (Agenzia Fides) - To remember with prayer, fasting and a concrete act of charity all the missionaries who were killed in the world, even those unknown to most, and who shed their blood for the Gospel. This is the re ...
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  23 March 2018
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "The gift of the life of missionary martyrs generates fruit" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The gift of life - both martyrdom in the proper sense, and the testimony of an existence spent gratuitously for God and for one’s neighbor - generates something new. This is the message ...
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  22 March 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Young protagonists of change in their communities: the Young Caritas project Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "This turning point in the training of young people has been quite positive and we firmly believe that volunteers can carry out very interesting projects for the benefit of their communities", says ...
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  22 March 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - New social initiatives could give impulse to religious freedom Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "The new social initiatives proclaimed by Kazakh President Nazarbaev have the potential to bring improvements, also in the religious sphere and have favorable repercussions for the religious free ...
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  22 March 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Resumption of inter-Togolese dialogue: Christian communities united in prayer Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-Togolese dialogue on the restoration of the 1992 Constitution, launched last February 19 in Lomé (see Fides 21/2/2018) and suspended on 23 February, will resume on 26 March. This was co ...
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  22 March 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to professors in mission Seminars: "Today the Church is in your hands" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the Church is in your hands": this is the what the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni said to 16 priests, professors in the major ...
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  22 March 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Catholic Church abandons the management of the State Institute of Charity Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - With an official letter of resignation, presented to President Horacio Cartes, the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference (CEP) has left the management of the State Charity Institute ("Diben": Depart ...
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  22 March 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Interreligious violence, the Director of the PMS: "After the civil war, people want peace and prosperity" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kandy, interreligious violence has stopped and the situation has returned to normal. Tourism can return to prosper, as we all hope, while we are trying to mend the social fabric according to ...
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  22 March 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Secretary General of CENCO: "Strengthening UN intervention in the DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations must strengthen its commitment in the Democratic Republic of Congo where entire areas are now out of State control. This was stated by Fr. Donatien Nshole, Secretary General ...
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  21 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias to Prime Minister Modi: "Attacks on minorities damage India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is a growing concern in the Catholic Church in India and other minority religious communities due to "sporadic attacks on institutions and personnel of religious minorities in different ...