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  26 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian is dying from police violence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is outrage, concern and protest in the Christian community in Pakistan after the treatment given by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) agents on 24-year-old Christian Sajid Masih, during th ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's family at the Vatican: "The Pope will pray for us and with us" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe in Jesus Christ and we turn to Him by putting Asia's life in his hands. We are sure that the Lord will listen to us, also thanks to the Pope's prayer and to the prayers of all t ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Church and other religious communities join the Pope in prayer for peace in Africa New Delhi (Agenzi Fides) - The Catholic Church in India and also the faithful of other religions, Hindus and Muslims, have responded to Pope Francis’ appeal and have joined the pontiff and universal Church in celebrati ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still violence while the world is praying for the DRC and South Sudan Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – While today, 23 February, the world Day of prayer and fasting for peace in the world is being celebrated, and in particular for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, announced ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Kenyan missionary:"I will continue to work in South Sudan despite the alarm of my government" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Rumbek, the few Kenyans I have met feel unsafe but as they work in these areas, they just entrust their lives to God", says to Fides Father John John Waweru, a Kenyan priest incardinate ...
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  23 February 2018
  ASIA/LAOS - The Church remembers Lionello Berti, first Bishop and missionary Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - The small Laotian Church participates spiritually, with great affection and gratitude, at the memorial of Mgr. Lionello Berti, missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) who died i ...
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  22 February 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Discrimination against Dalit women: government intervention is urgent New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Dalit women in India are poorer, more marginalized and discriminated than men, and the average age of their mortality is 14.6 years lower than the highest caste women. The data of the new UN ...
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  22 February 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - The struggle for political elections affects the return of refugees to Mosul and the Nineveh province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The maneuvers and pressures of the political forces in view of the upcoming Iraqi political elections, scheduled for May 12, are heavily influencing the return of displaced people who had left Mos ...
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  22 February 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church in Lima fights drug trafficking among young people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Drug trafficking is not an extra threat to society, it is the main threat. In Peru, this plague moves figures above 3 billion dollars a year and "the problem grows every day", says to Agenzia Fides ...
• 22 February 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Tanjung Selor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed the Rev. Fr. Paulinus Yan Olla, M.S.F., currently Rector of the Theological Studentate M.S.F. in Malang as Bishop of the diocese of Tanjung Selor (Indonesi ...
• 22 February 2018
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Resignation of the Bishop of Dunedin and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Dunedin (New Zealand), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Colin David Campbell, and at the same time appo ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Congo and South Sudan: peace and hope against all appearances Kara (Agenzia Fides) - The "Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in the Congo and South Sudan and in the world", announced by Pope Francis (see Fides 19/2/2018) was welcomed with gratitude by the Christians of South Sudan ...
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  22 February 2018
  AMERICA - Christians pray for peace in Africa and also in Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We join Pope Francis’ appeal to believers all over the world, for a special prayer for peace in Congo and South Sudan, to be held on Friday 23 February": says Mgr. Aldo Giordano, Apostolic Nu ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Africa ready to pray for peace in the DRC and in South Sudan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in all of Africa is mobilized to welcome the appeal launched on February 4 by Pope Francis to dedicate the second Friday of Lent, 2018, February 23, to a day of prayer and fasting for pe ...
• 21 February 2018
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi, of the diocesan clergy of Leribe, ...