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• 9 April 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: Iraqi families all expect to be able to return to their homes, and we are ready to help them start over Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I spent Palm Sunday in Amman, Jordan, where refugees are welcomed in parishes; then I transferred to Baghdad, Iraq. But I spent most of my time in the north, in the areas of Iraqi Kurdista ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas operator dies in the bombing in Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The operator of Caritas Syria, Safouh Al-Mosleh, was killed at noon on Tuesday, April 7, in the bombing that hit his home, located in Farhat square, where Greek-Catholic, Armenian and Maronite ca ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - School programs in the name of religious tolerance in Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the name of the affirmation of religious tolerance and respect for religious minorities, the Sindh government has included a well-known speech of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ...
• 9 April 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Bishops' message: "Easter, the feast of all the believers who work for peace" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "On the feast of the Resurrection, as believers, we encourage to fight against all forms of hatred, destruction and death", write the Bishops of Niger in their Easter message. "Whether we are Chr ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - A "hunger strike" to draw attention on the centenary of the Assyrian Genocide Midyat (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the genocide of their ancestors during the events of 1915, the members of the Syriac community in the city of Midyat will begin a collective hunger strike on April 20, also to draw ...
• 9 April 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Children forced to attend classes under trees infested by wasps Chiclayo (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Chiclayo, in the Peruvian region of Lambayeque, over 50 children aged 3 to 5 are forced to attend school lessons under some trees infested by wasps. Teachers reported to RPP Noti ...
• 9 April 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church to the President: "It is time to approve land reform" Manila (Agenzia Fides) – To approve the Agrarian Reform is an urgent need for the country. With this awareness Caritas Philippines has launched a new appeal to President Benigno Aquino inviting him to "keep the promise ...
• 9 April 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition demands an investigation into the mass grave discovered 80 km from Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Congolese civil society and the opposition demand an independent investigation into the mass grave discovered on March 19 in Maluku, 80 kilometers from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Repub ...
• 9 April 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Twelve million people live in favelas: educational projects for children San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - In Brazil, young people have two choices to survive: to work or become criminals. Opportunities are very precarious especially for those who live in the favelas. The aim of a new campaign call ...
• 8 April 2015
  VATICAN - Easter 2015: "Our brothers and sisters are persecuted, exiled, killed and beheaded simply because they are Christians, they are our martyrs of today" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask Jesus, the Victor over death, to lighten the sufferings of our many brothers and sisters who are persecuted for His name, and of all those who suffer injustice as a result of ongoin ...
• 8 April 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Tucupita Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 April 2015, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap., Pastor and Pro-Vicar of Tucupita as Apostolic Vicar of Tucupita, Venezuela. He has been assigned the ...
• 8 April 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Can one sing the Alleluia in the world we live in?" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Can one sing the Alleluia in the world we live in? Can we rejoice in Argentina today and in the reality we live in Santiago? Often we experience the same desolation of the disciples at the tom ...
• 8 April 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shabaab attack Christians also for people to forget the massacres against Muslims committed by them", says Mgr. Alexander Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Shabaab have alienated much of the Somali population, which is mainly Muslim, for the massacres committed against other Muslims. This is why when now the Shabaab in Kenya attack a crowded p ...
• 8 April 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not give in to the temptation of revenge", says the Bishop of Maiduguri to the displaced persons who have returned to their destroyed homes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "They can destroy our buildings, but not our faith. Our faith is strong and alive ... in the persecution we are purified", said His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri (in the northe ...
• 8 April 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Bagdogra Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 7, 2015, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Vincent Aind, of the clergy of Jalpaiguri, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Morning Star Regional Seminary as Bishop of the Diocese o ...